Last night, on the eve of Occupy DC’s two month anniversary, the General Assembly of McPherson Square reached consensus on a Declaration representing the foundational grievances of the occupiers encamped there and their many supporters.

The principles of the Declaration are largely based upon a range of over 200 submissions to a box made available to the public over the first few weeks of the McPherson Square occupation. Occupy DC’s Declaration Committee, open to the public and consisting of several dozen people, met nearly every night for more than a month to draft this document. As part of a highly democratic process, the Declaration went before General Assembly three times, incorporating new language desired by the community on each occasion before reaching consensus last night.

Read Occupy DC’s Declaration here: http://occupydc.org/community/declaration/