Temecula Occupation in Third Week

The Temecula occupation ran into its third week.

About 30 people gathered at the Duck Pond around 10 a.m. as part of the Occupy Temecula demonstration.

They stayed until around 4 p.m., when more than a dozen marched into Old Town, according to Violet Lorien, one of the organizers.

Before making that trek, organizers and supporters convened at the Duck Pond to hold the group's first "general assembly." The group's members agreed on a pact of nonviolence and discussed how to handle confrontations with angry passers-by.

"We covered the basic consensus decision-making process and hand signals, and then moved on to discussion of principles of solidarity, using the principles adopted by the New York City Occupy Wall Street group as a starting point," Lorien said.

The group plans to meet at the Duck Pond next Saturday around 10 a.m. for the fourth demonstration, according to Lorien.

The group also started writing a blog on a website started by the Occupy Wall Street group, which can be seen by clicking here.