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From Will at The Other News:
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Fox: White House told authorities not to crack down on 'Occupy' protesters, documents show The Obama administration told law enforcement authorities to go easy on Occupy Wall Street protesters, even though they were violating local laws, according...
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CBS New York: OWS Protesters Calling For ‘Day Of Action’ Following Loss Of Camp In Zuccotti Park NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The loss of their camp at Zuccotti Park doesn’t seem to be slowing down the Occupy Wall Street movement as protesters are...
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Newsmax: Police Close Down Occupy Oakland Protest Camp Monday, 14 Nov 2011 09:49 PM OAKLAND, Calif. — Police moved in early Monday and cleared out anti-Wall Street protesters from Oakland's City Hall plaza, arresting 32 people but avoiding the sort...
- Cair Turns Occupy Wall Street Into An Outdoor Mosque…
The Council on American Islamic Relations New York Chapter (CAIR-NY) led by Imam Aiyub Abdul Baki holds Friday prayers with Demonstrators with ‘Occupy Wall Street’ continue their protest at Zuccotti Park in New York on October 21, 2011. The encampment...
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David Plouffe: Obama on side of Occupy Wall Street protesters Plouffe (ploo-fay)noun 1. a fart that went wrong. From Politico: The White House wants to make it clear that President Barack Obama is on the same side as the Occupy Wall Street protesters...
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Obama's Army On The March?
Wall Street protests spread to other cities
From Will at The Other News:
Protests inspired by "Occupy Wall Street" movement have emerged in Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles.Read the full story here.
Members of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement have vowed to stay through winter in a park near New York's iconic financial district, where they are protesting issues including the 2008 bank bailouts, foreclosures and high unemployment in the United States.
Protests inspired by New York's have emerged in other US cities in recent days, including Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
A group in Boston has taken on the tactics of New York's protesters and on Friday night set itself up in the city's Dewey Square. Activists remained camped out at what they called "the heart of the financial district" on Saturday.
"We are establishing our subsection of a national dialogue on finance reform and governance reform," Nadeem Mazen, an organiser with Occupy Boston, told Al Jazeera.Mazen said that the Boston protest quickly drew a thousand people. "It shows that we're experienced and that we've all been independently thinking about what change we want to see. .. I think we're all very hungry for change."
The New York campaign is based in Zuccotti Park - formerly Liberty Plaza Park - just across from the World Trade Center site.
The movement has gained the support of five New York labour unions, as well as celebrities and academics such as Susan Sarandon, Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, rapper Lupe Fiasco and the musical group Radiohead.
More than 1,000 demonstrators, who have camped out in New York's financial centre for over two weeks, marched on Friday to New York's police headquarters to protest to what they viewed as a heavy-handed police response earlier on in their demonstration.Some held banners criticising police, while others chanted: "We are the 99 per cent" and "The banks got bailed out, we got sold out".
Police observed Friday's march and kept protesters on the sidewalk, but no clashes were reported. They said no arrests were made before protesters dispersed from the police headquarters after the march by 8pm.
"No to the NYPD crackdown on Wall Street protesters," organisers had said on their website, promoting the march.
Other online flyers for the march critiqued local police policies: "No to Stop-and-Frisk in Black and Latino neighborhoods" and "No to Spying and Harassment of Muslim Communities".
The protest came less than a week after police arrested 80 Occupy Wall Street members during a march toward a main shopping district - the most arrests by New York police at a demonstration since hundreds were detained outside the Republican National Convention (RNC) in 2004.
A city police commander used pepper spray on four women at last weekend's march and a video of the incident subsequently went viral on the internet, angering many protesters who vowed to continue their protests indefinitely.
- Shocker!
Fox: White House told authorities not to crack down on 'Occupy' protesters, documents show The Obama administration told law enforcement authorities to go easy on Occupy Wall Street protesters, even though they were violating local laws, according...
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CBS New York: OWS Protesters Calling For ‘Day Of Action’ Following Loss Of Camp In Zuccotti Park NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The loss of their camp at Zuccotti Park doesn’t seem to be slowing down the Occupy Wall Street movement as protesters are...
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Newsmax: Police Close Down Occupy Oakland Protest Camp Monday, 14 Nov 2011 09:49 PM OAKLAND, Calif. — Police moved in early Monday and cleared out anti-Wall Street protesters from Oakland's City Hall plaza, arresting 32 people but avoiding the sort...
- Cair Turns Occupy Wall Street Into An Outdoor Mosque…
The Council on American Islamic Relations New York Chapter (CAIR-NY) led by Imam Aiyub Abdul Baki holds Friday prayers with Demonstrators with ‘Occupy Wall Street’ continue their protest at Zuccotti Park in New York on October 21, 2011. The encampment...
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David Plouffe: Obama on side of Occupy Wall Street protesters Plouffe (ploo-fay)noun 1. a fart that went wrong. From Politico: The White House wants to make it clear that President Barack Obama is on the same side as the Occupy Wall Street protesters...