Occupy San Francisco is one of the few remaining occupy camps in the nation that hasn't -- and apparently won't -- experience a full-scale police raid. Rather the city is taking a more diplomatic approach, one that tries to preserve the camp, but in a place far from the heart of the city's Financial District. According to this morning's Chron, city officials are working with protesters to relocate the camp to the more colorful Mission District, on the site of a former high school.
As Matier & Ross report, the Phoenix Continuation High School is nothing more than a parking lot "ringed by portable classrooms" contained behind a fence -- just might be the perfect spot for a leaderless group of protesters.
The city's public works director toured the site with a group of protesters to see if the spot would be an adequate and perhaps more appropriate place for the compound, which has been camped out on Justin Herman Plaza near the Embarcadero for nearly six weeks.
Now, all they need is the school district's buy-in.
Of course, being plucked from the heart of the city's Financial District might also detract from the group's anti-big bank message.
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