Occupy L.A. plans protest tonight outside downtown business event

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/07/occupy-la-plans-protest-tonight-outside-downtown-business-event.html

Occupy Los Angeles protesters are planning a demonstration Tuesday outside a reception hosted by one of the city’s most prominent business groups.

The Central City Assn., which lobbies on behalf of downtown business owners as well as banks and larger corporations, is throwing a party for the chiefs of staff of elected officials on the Los Angeles City Council and the L.A. County Board of Supervisors.

The event is being held at a sushi bar and cocktail lounge on the 21st floor of a downtown high-rise on Wilshire Boulevard. Protesters are planning carry signs, play drums and perform street theater outside the event, which has been publicized by the business group.

Occupy activists have been targeting the group since early June, when they came together with the Los Angeles Community Action Network -- an organization that advocates for homeless and low-income residents -- to set up a nightly encampment outside the Central City Assn.’s downtown headquarters.