Delegates from Occupy Tampa and across the state are meeting in Orlando this weekend for a statewide convention to develop what organizers are calling "The People’s Plan," a list of desired legislative changes to be delivered on the first day of the 2012 Florida legislative session.
More than 500 people are scheduled to attend the the three-day event, which begins today. The future of the Occupy movement is one of the principal items to be discussed.
Organizers say they will present "The People's Plan" to state legislators during the first day of the 2012 session, which begins on January 10.
Meanwhile, a week after 29 Occupy Tampa protesters were arrested — the largest number to be arrested in Tampa at one time — Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor says that she's okay with the current situation, which finds some activists sleeping on the sidewalk in front of Curtis Hixon Park every night.
