Zuccotti Park
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 06: A demonstrator associated with the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement is arrested after writing with chalk on the sidewalk in front of Zuccotti Park on April 06, 2012 in New York City. The demonstrators were taking part in an Occupy Wall Street spring training session.
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Among the demonstrators was Stacey Hessler, the 38-year-old Florida mom who last year ditched her husband and four kids to camp out in Zuccotti Park with a waiter from Brooklyn. She refused to comment
Taking away Zuccotti Park was just underscoring how the system doesn't work.
It’s become fractured over time and I think people point a lot to that to the breakup of Zuccotti Park, and the natural disagreements that people had came more to the fore when people were separated and people formed their own circles upon which they continued. But it wasn’t the circle of great diversity that was right there at Zuccotti Park and people could grow fromMore quotes »
Newsday's coverage
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Occupy group sues NYC for 'library' damages
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, claimed Read more »
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Occupy activists to march across Brooklyn Bridge
the economic inequality represented by the wealthy "1 percent."The Brooklyn gathering will include a "General Assembly" -- as Occupy supporters called their daily meetings in Zuccotti Park . The gatherings are used to discuss various protest topics. Read more »
Around the web
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An Idea Charged Up at Zuccotti Park
May 31, 2012, 6:47 pm By THE NEW YORK TIMES What is that doohickey in Bryant Park that looks like a solar-powered lectern? It is Tommy Mitchell’s solar-powered cellphone charger. He invented it after learning that protesters at Zuccotti Park were using a 5/31/12 from The New York Times Read more »
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Deploying Urban Space
Activists in places like Tahrir Square in Cairo and Zuccotti Park in Manhattan made urban space a powerful force in struggles against dictators and global capital. The high-rise public-housing projects that stood as monuments to failed federal policy and from In These Times Read more »
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Occupy Wall Street Sues New York City for Destruction of the OWS Library
The Occupy Wall Street movement and OWS librarians have sued New York City in federal court over the destruction of the Occupy Wall Street Library during a late-night raid on Zuccotti Park. [The suit reads in part:] “We believe that the raid and its afte from The Stranger Read more »
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Occupy Tampa to hold regional General Assembly this Saturday
As summer approaches, stories are appearing in the press about the current state of the Occupy Wall Street movement and its affiliated groups throughout the country, eight months after Zuccotti Park in Manhattan became the epicenter for activists around from Creative Loafing Tampa Read more »
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Occupy Wall Street Is Just Getting Going
Occupy Wall Street was at the pinnacle of its power in October 2011, when thousands of people converged at Zuccotti Park and successfully foiled the plans of billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg to sweep away the occupation on grounds of public health. Fr from The Progressive Read more »
