Both D.C. Wire and the Washington Business Journal reported that a group of somewhere between 100 and 200 protesters disrupted the D.C. Council’s first day back at work this afternoon. Some of the protesters were members of Empower D.C., a group protesting the closing of the Franklin Shelter. The Council was expected to pass emergency legislation to keep the shelter open until Mayor Fenty provides more information about which services the shelter’s residents, many of whom have already been moved into their own apartments, can expect to receive once they move out. The rest of those gathered were union members who came to protest the
Fenty administration’s sale of public land for economic development purposes.