In Zuccotti Park this afternoon, Occupy Wall Street protesters met with City Councilmembers Jumaaane Williams, Ydanis Rodriguez, and Melissa Mark-Viverito, as well as clergymembers and representatives from Occupy the Hood, for a press conference in response to Zuccotti Park's reoccupation -- and violent eviction by the NYPD -- this Saturday.
During the eviction that resulted in dozens of arrests and multiple injuries, occupier Cecily McMillan's ribs were broken, and she suffered a seizure. A witness to the injury told the press that she laid on the pavement, without protection under her head, for 17 minutes, 10 of which she was unconscious. Police stood by but did not help, she said, and prevented EMTs from providing timely medical assistance. Read more 
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