Tentant d'éviter une intervention policière pour les obliger à quitter le site (privé) qu'ils occupent, plusieurs manifestants ont commencé le nettoyage! Le prétexte pour les évacuer est justement celui du "ménage".
"As the clock ticked down on the occupiers of Zuccotti Park and the prospect of eviction loomed, the Occupy Wall Street protesters’ pre-emptive cleanup effort lurched into gear Thursday afternoon.
Volunteers taped off sections of the park, hauled off debris and scrubbed the walkways clean — in the hope that if the park could be made spick-and-span, the city and the park’s owners, Brookfield Properties, might relent and let them stay.
Wednesday night, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced that the park, which has not been maintained during the four-week occupation, would be closed temporarily at 7 a.m. Friday and cleaned quadrant by quadrant.
Many protesters have called the evacuation order a pretext for shutting down the protests permanently, and some have vowed nonviolent resistance on Friday morning.
Thursday afternoon, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said that after the space was clean, the protesters would not be allowed to take their camping gear back into the park.
“After it’s cleaned, they’ll be able to come back,” Mr. Kelly told reporters after a memorial ceremony in Battery Park. “But they won’t be able to bring back the gear. The sleeping bags, that sort of thing, will not be able to be brought back into the park.”
A set of rules, including the ban on sleeping bags, has been posted in the park for weeks, but has not been enforced.
At a meeting at the park Thursday morning, protesters urged each other to clean house. “Pick up a broom, pick up the trash, encourage people to wake at a decent hour,” one woman called to the crowd. “Show Mayor Bloomberg that he is dead wrong.”"
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/told-to-leave-protesters-talk-pre-emptive-strategy/
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