City of Asheville Staff Emails: Occupy Asheville

From: Wade Wood

Subject: RE: Following up on Occupy Asheville

Date: 2011-10-12 22:44:17

To:

Ms. Foster,



Sorry for the delay, I was out of the office today. Hopefully we can
get together with COA legal Thursday.



Take care,



Wade Wood

Interim Chief of Police

Asheville Police Department

(828)259-5901



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From: Jen Foster [mailto:fosterthejen@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 4:08 PM
To: Mayor Terry Bellamy; Wade Wood
Cc: Gary Jackson; Bob Oast
Subject: RE: Following up on Occupy Asheville



Hey everyone. Can I get some sort of update to report at 7pm General
Assembly tonight before they take my head off........



Working group meeting tomorrow? Ideas on temp or permanent spot?
Agreement that we have this First Amendment right? Timeline?



I don't have that list of permitted events in front of me. What about
Pritchard Park? That actually makes sense.....



Does anyone want to come to the General Assembly meeting and speak or
just observe?



Chief Wood, you should come down and meet everyone!



Thanks,

Jennifer

________________________________

From: fosterthejen@hotmail.com
To: mayorbellamy@avlcouncil.com; wwood@ashevillenc.gov;
terrybellamy@avlcouncil.com
CC: gjackson@ashevillenc.gov; boast@ashevillenc.gov
Subject: RE: Following up on Occupy Asheville
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:32:44 -0400

ya'll should take a minute to watch this short fllm. this is very real
and I can only hold them off for about 24 more hours, and frankly, I
feel the same way....



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGRXCgMdz9A&feature=share





________________________________

From: fosterthejen@hotmail.com
To: mayorbellamy@avlcouncil.com; wwood@ashevillenc.gov;
kwhitlock@ashevillenc.gov; scole@ashevillenc.gov;
terrybellamy@avlcouncil.com
CC: rosettastarshine@gmail.com; gjackson@ashevillenc.gov;
boast@ashevillenc.gov
Subject: Following up on Occupy Asheville
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:19:37 -0400

Good morning Asheville leaders! I just wanted to write this morning on
a few points. First, Bob, we just want to be clear, in response to
Esther's comments, that "beggars can't be choosers," that we strongly
believe we have the right to do exactly what we are doing under the
First Amendment Assembly rights, and we are seeking your cooperation
rather than mass arrests and court challenges to so prove, but that, as
always, is an option.



Second, ya'll really should come to our General Assembly meeting.
Council does in fact need a "direct response" mechanism, that the
occupier who was ejected last night has written you about madam Mayor.
"Direct response" is insertion of factual information to a point that
would clear something up immediately. For example, whether we were
asking for night camping, that was again misunderstood by Esther. This
is an occupation, and the only ordinance in the way is the curfew. The
point is not night camping, but an ongoing occupation. 24/7



Oh, and thank you for coming out last night Chief Wood. Very good
experience.



Our group is very serious about public park access space, not a side
city parking lot etc. I suggested the upper northwest corner of the
park, from the Arcade, McGuire little amphitheater up to the top street,
thinking that other permitted events would not be impacted as seriously
there. We also would likely agree to move between now and the "month"
break for any events that actually needed that space, and then occupy
that space thereafter. There may be other city park space you may
suggest. I still think this upper McGuire space is perfect, especially
after the date the park is vacant. When was that again?



Obama is coming to town as you know. We need to have our peaceful
assembly firmly established by Saturday. Obama, as well as you guys,
needs to come see what this people's movement is about. Perhaps that is
why he is coming?



We would like to create a working group to discuss by day's end. We do
have a lot of children involved in this movement and are very excited
about Mark Case and the AFL-CIO's offer to build our infrastructure and
keep everybody safe.



This IS what democracy looks like! We can all learn from each other!
Thanks again! Let's make history!



Jennifer



828-279-9538; office 828 255 7703

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