UPDATE: House minority leader Eric Cantor has canceled the speech on income inequality after his office learned that it would be open to the public, several news outlets are reporting. The Wharton School confirmed that the speech has been canceled. Cantor’s office has told reporters that they thought the speech would only be open to the media and members of the Penn community. A Cantor spokesperson told Philadelphia Daily News reporter Chris Brennan by email that “The Office of the Majority Leader was informed last night by Capitol Police that the University of Pennsylvania was unable to ensure that the attendance policy previously agreed to could be met.” Wharton reportedly planned to allow 300 members of the general public into the speech.
For the last couple of weeks many West Philadelphians have been going to Occupy Philly. Now Occupy Philly is coming to West Philadelphia.
According to the announcement on their Facebook page, the Occupy Philly movement is going to make it to West Philly Friday for a major protest outside the Wharton School (3730 Walnut St.) at the University of Pennsylvania, where Republican Eric Cantor, the House minority leader, will speak about income inequality from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The protest is part of a march dubbed “Occupy Eric Cantor,” that will begin at 3 p.m. at the movement’s base camp near City Hall.
October 20th, 2011 at 5:05 pm
Well, technically, “Occupy Philly” is not going to set up in West Philly…only sponsor a march to Wharton.
October 21st, 2011 at 9:57 pm
ROFL! Oh, this is too good – Eric Cantor was going to give a speech on income inequality at Wharton, but cancelled after learning that the plebs were going to be permitted to attend. Somebody call The Onion!
October 22nd, 2011 at 10:09 am
Here’s a first hand account of the protest:
http://occupyphillymedia.org/content/occupy-wharton-eric-cantor-you-cant-hide-we-people-are-outside