looks like progress in FL..
ORLANDO -- Hundreds of people, from 16 different cities, were in Orlando this weekend for the first state-wide Occupy Wall Street event.
For months they've occupied city parks across the state.
However, protesters with the Occupy movement have grown tired of just sitting around.
"It resolves nothing to just protest,” says protester, Valerie Cepero. “If you don't have a goal, then how do you know you've made any progress?"
This weekend, protesters worked to develop a list of objectives they hope can pass as legislation. They divided up into small groups and made a list of issues that are important to them.
"We demand our state legislator to pass a non-binding resolution to support the overturning of Citizens United VIPC,” said the moderator of one of the groups.
The issues ranged from insurance, to foreclosures, to elections. One proposal asks that elections be held during the weekend.
"I don't think there's any good reason why an election needs to be on a week day when the people that are most affected by this legislation are not going to be able to take off of work," Cepero said.
Once the groups finished listing their proposals, they presented them to the general assembly. By a show of hands, the group voted for or against each item.
"About five or six items will go on our final list of objectives," Cepero said.
That final list will be delivered to state legislators in Tallahassee January 10.
Members of Occupy Orlando said the gathering would also help to pull the attention away from recent incidents involving law enforcement at Beth Johnson Park near lake Ivanhoe.
Earlier this week, five protesters were arrested charged for trespassing and resisting arrest after code enforcement officers handed out warnings asking demonstrators to take their belongings out of the park and sidewalk. In total at least 45 demonstrators have been arrested since the Occupy Orlando movement began.
Sunday afternoon, protesters told News 13 they would be evicted from the park at midnight. Orlando Police denied the allegations.
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