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December 17th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda NEW YORK, NY — Occupy protesters will mark the movement’s third-month anniversary with a major direct action on Saturday that could give them a new home — a central headquarters that plays a “crucial role” in their movement — as authorities continue to shutter camps nationwide.
But their potential new landlord, Trinity Church, has voiced strong opposition, and the move by Occupy is seen by some as applying strong pressure to them to cave in and let the protesters set up camp.
Under the banner of “Re-Occupy,” the protesters said they’ve assembled more than 1,400 people — elders of the civil rights movement, prominent artists, faith leaders and community members — to help them in their bid to try and set up camp in a nearly half-acre plot about one mile northwest of their former camp at Zuccotti Park, from which they were evicted on Nov. 15.
“Outdoor public space plays a crucial role in this civic process and encourages open, transparent organizing in our movement, unbeholden to a broken political system. As we saw in Liberty Square (Zuccotti Park), outdoor space invites people to listen, speak, share, learn, and act. It is a source of inspiration and empowerment,” Occupy Wall Street said in a statement.
Trinity Church has provided the protesters with meeting rooms and use of their neighborhood center but is opposed to having them stay at the Duarte Square lot. An attempt to move in there on Nov. 15 was rejected by the church.
“In all good conscience and faith, we strongly believe to do so would be wrong, unsafe, unhealthy and potentially injurious,” its rector, The Rev. Dr. James H. Cooper, said in a statement dated Dec. 9 and posted to the church website. “The health, safety and security problems posed by an encampment here, compounded by winter weather, would dwarf those experienced at Zuccotti Park. Calling this an issue of ‘political sanctuary’ is manipulative and blind to reality.”
Linda Hanick, a spokeswoman for the church, said earlier this week that their position would not change and on Friday, a statement from the city’s bishop sided with Trinity.
The church’s operations include an Episcopal parish, a commercial realty business and a grant-making organization.
“Here’s a extremely wealthy church … that can choose between its real estate empire and its conscience. This would be a big help to social justice organizing,” Bill Dobbs, of the public relations working group, said Friday.
Dobbs said the movement had suffered a “setback” with the loss of its camp, but the organizing and protests had continued.
Still, “it sure is helpful to have … a center of gravity,” he said.
The protesters say they’ll do things differently this time to prevent problems — such as a few assaults — that tainted their efforts at Zuccotti Park. There won’t be personal tents, for example, only large ones for group meetings, said Brendan Burke, 41, of Brooklyn, who helped start the Occupy Wall Street security team.
Occupy Wall Street would not be the first of the movement’s encampments to set up in a church-owned space: In London, protesters are occupying the forecourt of St Paul’s Cathedral, next to the London Stock Exchange.
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