A spirited and festive crowd descended upon Emeryville's posh Woodfin Hotel Saturday morning, September 15th. The crowd gathered to announce and symbolically enforce the revocation of the hotel's permit, claiming that the hotel had failed to meet its conditional operating permit by refusing to pay $250,000 in back wages to workers, and a $50,000 fine to the City of Emeryville, the culmination of a lengthy and successful campaign waged by the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy .

The crowd, carrying many colorful signs with clear messages such as, "Pay Your Workers, Not Your Lawyers," marched to the hotel's main entrance chanting, "Boycott the Woodfin!" Led by a woman wearing a large paper lock and chains, the group symbolically locked the front doors of the Woodfin.

Hotel manager Hugh MacIntosh immediately came through the doors and began tearing down signs and paper chains which had been taped there. Some demonstrators held bicycle locks in the air to symbolize truly locking the doors. Berkeley City Councilperson Kriss Worthington was present and interceded between hotel representatives and demonstrators as the demonstrators left the entrance, still chanting.

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