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About half of the tents are occupied by their owners, Burmann estimates. The rest are donated and occupied by other protesters who, in return for living in the tent city, help the living wage campaign occasionally by drawing posters or running errands...
...residents of the tent city have developed their own security procedures. After one tent was stolen last weekend, some of the occupants fixed their canopies to the ground with special corkscrew stakes. They have fire-extinguishing equipment and maintain regular security shifts that patrol the area with flashlights...
...residents have also drawn up a list of “tent city rules,” prohibiting alcohol and weapons and warning occupants not to light candles in their tents...
Michael Greger, a general practitioner in Jamaica Plain, calls himself the tent city doctor. He spends his nights in tent number 73, where he has posted a sign with a red cross outside reading “the doctor...
After a day of protesting, Ken Tivey, another Yard resident, sets up his tent. Tivey works in the Economics Department and is a member of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers. He says he takes lunch breaks from Littauer to come to the noon rallies in front of Mass. Hall...