Tuesday 25 October 2011

Finsbury Square Site Nears 'Saturation Point:' Occupy Press Team

'Occupy' organizers say the camp at Finsbury Square will soon reach its limits if it hasn't already.
An organizer at the 'Occupy' protest in Finsbury Square said the site is nearly full.

"We're almost at the saturation point," said Paul, 33, a member of the camp's shelter and security teams, who was laid off from his data analysis job in May. "That's why we're frantically moving things around."

He and others hope to create space for a few more tents at the Central London camp, which emerged Saturday 22 Oct. At last count more than 100 tents crowded the square, with about 120 people staying at any given time, and a 'handful on site twenty-four seven," Paul said.

He expected available space to disappear by the end of Tuesday 25 Oct., but did not know if or when demonstrators plan to expand to other locations. The 'Occupy' movement kicked off in London on 15 Oct. when protesters pitched tents around St. Paul's Cathedral.

It's worth reading an interesting and controversial piece in the right-of-center Daily Telegraph alleging only one in 10 tents are occupied every night at St. Paul's, and the left-of-center Guardian's response.

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