Occupy Seattle had a call to action on Friday- requesting supporters participate in their occupation of Westlake Park by bringing a tent and being a part of their “night of 500 tents”.
I dropped by to check things out and get a feel for the occupation. Hard to say exactly how many tents were there, I’d estimate 30, maybe 40 tents or so when I was there.
Everyone was getting along fine, no fighting or disturbances. Seattle PD had a pretty strong presence of officers both on bicycles and on foot.
I hung out for a while, watched some of their general assembly activity, overall it was a decent size gathering of people expressing a variety of opinions.
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