Occupy Vancouver looking beyond tent-city model of protest
Matthew Black
Globe and Mail
November 23, 2011
Occupy Vancouver decided Wednesday afternoon to temporarily abandon public occupations in favour of regular meetings after the group was forced indoors for the first time the previous evening.
The decision was made by an assembly of approximately 50 protesters who returned to Grandview Park after heavy rainfall and the park’s 10 p.m. closing time left them with nowhere to occupy Tuesday night.
A second general assembly was planned for 7 p.m. Wednesday on the grounds of the Vancouver Art Gallery, the site of the initial Occupy Vancouver protests in October.
Court injunctions forced protesters to abandon their sites at the Art Gallery and the Robson Square law courts, on Monday and Tuesday respectively.
Protesters had camped out in downtown Vancouver since Oct. 15.
Vancouver Park Board Deputy General Manager Peter Kuran was at Grandview Park on Wednesday. He addressed the assembly by reading out loud parks control bylaw 8 (b), which states that written permission from the general manager of the Parks and Recreation Board is legally required to hold a public gathering in a city park.
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