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Sorry to those who are not interested, but I walk by Zuccotti Park frequently, and find the changing dynamic kind of fascinating (though my iPhone pix don’t really convey it.)

Yesterday (Friday, November 18), was a much calmer day–a whole lot of chatting going on:  Protesters or bystanders with the police (some of the younger protestors were kind of taunting, but most people seemed just to talk)==the police gabbing with each other–the Brooksfield people (I think they are the security guards in neon green vests) moaning with each other–the protestors chanting, and in the evening, singing soft songs.

The Daily Show had a piece by Samantha Bee talking about the divisions in the park before the break-up.  I had not specifically focused on these before, but I think Bee’s piece was really accurate–the library, the speak and repeat crowd, the bicycle generators (all put together by the more “intellectual” types)  were on the East Side by Broadway–the drum circle, the Sufi-garbed and yogic breathing, cat guy, tended to be at the West End (by Church.)

Protesters still seem to congregate at the tips of the Park , but it’s all a lot more sparse and mixed up.  (Cat guy, for example, has moved East.)

One of the dark pictures at the bottom has what looks like someone’s head leaning against a police barricade.  This is the head of the bronze sculpture (“Double Check”) of a man with a brief case;  the lights are red white and blue glow sticks.

Cat Guy

Trying A Banner Run Up Broadway

"Double Checker"