(From DCist contributor Zoe Mitchell)
Things are mighty fiesty inside the Wilson Building again today and it has nothing to do with baseball. According to an inside source, three activists from MayDay DC have already been arrested, while another activist is occupying the building’s ledge again.
The activists are upset at the closure of the Randall Shelter, which is up for final vote today during the last regularly scheduled D.C. Council hearing this session.
Also, according to a press release Jamie Loughner, Founder of May Day DC, is now standing on a fifth floor ledge of the Wilson Building, and has announced she will begin a hunger strike tonight at midnight if a demand by the coalition is not met for a new homeless shelter to be opened in Northwest D.C. Just an idle threat? We’re not so sure: in 2001, Loughner staged a 30 day hunger strike in opposition to the closure of D.C. General Hospital.
>> See DCist on the first protest at the Wilson Building, and the occupation of the shelter over Thanksgiving weekend.
