Hi,

Just a quick update for those that are following the Occupy Adelaide movement.

As you are likely know, Occupy Adelaide was due to be evicted at 3:30pm, but the Adelaide City Council instead chose to have an emergency meeting at 5:30pm
During the OA General Assembly at ~3:30pm Occupy Adelaide decided to send a letter to the Adelaide City Council to consider during that meeting (links at the bottom).

Whilst we are still writing up notes from the council meeting, the main point is that they chose not to evict us by tomorrow morning, nor to do nothing, but primarily due to sanitation (toilets/kitchen), legal and public safety concerns (especially concern for us) they will request that by Friday afternoon we submit an application for public assembly. If submitted the council will then deliberate on it during their normal council meeting time of the following Tuesday (22nd).

This means that assuming none of the by-laws are broken (e.g no fires, or major issues arise) Occupy Adelaide has at least until mid day Friday.

More notes and details will be posted later, however the main point is what to do from here.
There will be a General Assembly (consensus decision making based meeting), this  Thursday 17th at 6:30pm for the Occupy Adelaide  movement to decide on our next move.

Ethics and real democracy

FYI – The letters sent to the council :

• Adelaide city council letter – 15th Nov 2011 [PDF]
• The formal intentions of occupy Adelaide regarding responsible conduct [PDF]