Occupy Wall Street
CHICAGO, IL - MAY 19: Protesters, some affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement, demonstrate in downtown Chicago on the eve of the NATO summit on May 19, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Sixty heads of state, 2,500 journalists and thousands of protesters have converged on Chicago for the two day NATO meeting which begins on Sunday and will look to address the situation in Afghanistan among other global defense issues. Chicago police are preparing for the worst with many officers in riot gear and with their numbers enhanced by police from outside the city.
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In a time of crisis and protest, where the old world order is in question with Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring, Gandhi represents a historic figure of civil disobedience encouraging us to believe in our power for change
There was a moment today when I was marching in the streets with the Occupy Wall Street 'guitarmy,' ... I was a commandante… But there was a minute when the tear gas was flying.More quotes »
Newsday's coverage
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Occupy group sues NYC for 'library' damages
Wall Street sued New York City Thursday over almost 2,800 books that were damaged or not returned when police ejected protesters from Zuccotti Park in November. Occupy Wall Street , a group involved in protesting against income inequality in the United States, Read more »
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NYPD: Some 50 people arrested in Occupy events
daylong series of Occupy Wall Street protests Tuesday included the arrests of about 50 people, the NYPD said Wednesday morning.A definitive number was not available -- nor was information about specific arrests. A police spokesman said most of the arrests Read more »
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Occupy movement plans May Day protest
at 11 a.m. and join a free university day at Madison Square Park, where CUNY professors will hold various classes.The Occupy Wall Street movement also reached out to high school students, asking them to protest the closing of city schools.Also, union members Read more »
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Occupy activists to march across Brooklyn Bridge
Wall Street protesters are planning to march across the Brooklyn Bridge to mark six months since hundreds of them were arrested walking the same route.The activists are expected to meet Sunday afternoon at Manhattan's Zuccotti Park , where they first camped Read more »
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Occupy Wall Street supporters march in NYC
of the Occupy Wall Street movement celebrated its sixth month with a march from the New York City park that demonstrators seized for two months last fall.With the city's attention focused on the huge St. Patrick's Day Parade many blocks uptown, the Occupy Read more »
Around the web
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American Students Need to Copy Canada's Tuition Protests
the past four months, the Canadian province of Quebec has become a hotbed of Occupy Wall Street-style protests—marches with hundreds of thousands of protesters, and battles with tear gas throwing, pepper-spraying police. And it all started over proposed tuition 6:13 AM from Good Magazine Read more »
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Experts: tweeters own tweets
advocates have weighed in on a high-stakes legal fight over online communications, arguing that a subpoena seeking an Occupy Wall Street protester's tweets violates his rights to free speech and privacy. The filing, from the American Civil Liberties Union, 5/31/12 from Stuff.co.nz Read more »
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Occupy Wall Street Is Waging a Civil War in the US
Hollywood hero Benicio del Toro slams America, and PBS stars in an Al Qaeda propaganda film. Occupy Goes to War Think Occupy Wall Street is a peaceful protest movement? Clearly you're not reading Press TV, Iran's state-owned news outlet. In a bout of wishful 5/31/12 from The Atlantic Read more »
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Comcast CEO Hears Labor, MSNBC, Other Criticism at Annual Meeting
also interrupted by a "We are the 99 percent!" chant from a group of people. Several dozen protesters promoting similar Occupy Wall Street themes also chanted last month at the annual shareholder meeting of General Electric, which holds a minority stake in from Hollywood Reporter Read more »
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NYPD Unconcerned With Actually Convicting Occupy Wall Street Protesters
hundreds of protesters arrested during months of Occupy Wall Street demonstrations get their day in court, their arresting officers aren't even bothering to show up. When they have, as in the first two cases to go to trial, the NYPD testimony was disproved from New York Magazine Read more »
