Via the AP:
The official cleanup of a New York plaza where protesters have camped out for a month was postponed early Friday, sending up cheers from demonstrators who feared the effort was merely a pretext to evict them and said the victory emboldened their movement.
Protesters had already been scrambling to clean up the park on their own in hopes of staving off eviction when Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway announced that the owner of the private park, Brookfield Office Properties, had put off the cleaning.
"My understanding is that Brookfield got lots of calls from many elected officials threatening them and saying ... 'We're going to make your life more difficult,'" Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on his weekly radio show.
I'm sure when Mike Bloomberg does it, he just calls it "exercising political pressure." But when other pols do it, then it becomes "making threats." He can stew all he wants, but right now, it's Occupy Wall Street 1, Bloombo 0. Watch protesters react to the news that the city and Brookfield had backed off:
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