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Activity increases around protest encampment as deadline to vacate passes

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PHILADELPHIA - Hours before the city's deadline to close a protest encampment on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway residents of the encampment are fighting to stay put.While leaders tell FOX 29 they have filed an injunction to again prevent the city from closing the camp, so-called 'security team members' have begun gathering around the area.The tent encampment has stood on a baseball field on the parkway since June 10 and has grown to an estimated 100 to 150 people.Philadelphia Housing Action — the coalition of groups that organized the encampment — said it was conceived as a form of political protest over city policies toward the homeless and the lack of low-income housing in the city.FOX 29's Steve Keeley has the latest on the.

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