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Over 5,800 OWS protesters arrested

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Police officers arrest protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement at the intersection of Exchange Place and Beaver Street in the Financial District on November 17, 2011 in New York City. The US police have arrested over 5,800 anti-Wall Street protesters since the beginning of the anti-capitalism movement in September last year. According to the website occupy-arrests.com, at least 5,748... 

Occupy protest Cop becomes an Internet Craze after Pepper Spraying

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Call it the Meme Movement. This Sprayer Cop Meme Movement is very similar to the famous Looter King Meme Movement when a man from New Orleans was looting beer in the middle of the Katrina event. Whatever degree of success achieved by the Occupy protests, it’s largely been based on its old-fashioned, off-line demonstrations. They’ve been decidedly physical, as in, non-virtual- staking out... 

Bloomberg’s office admits to arresting journalists for covering OWS

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United States, New York: An Occupy Wall Street protester is arrested after marching through downtown Manhattan, after New York City police removed the activists from Zuccotti Park. Arrests in the Occupy movement nationally have surpassed 1,000, with 177 being charged by the NYPD this Thursday in only the first few hours. Now New York is admitting that journalists that they credentialed are among those... 

OWS Day of Action ends up with Police Clashes

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At least 175 people have been arrested during clashes between police and Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in New York. Some protesters were bloodied during arrests. ­This man who identified himself as Brendan Watts was beaten to the ground by police officers in Zuccotti Park. According to reports he was injured and suffered a fractured skull after being hit with a baton to the head as police clashed... 

Occupy Wall Street banned from camping at Zuccotti Park

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Some of the evicted protesters reconvened in Foley Square. Anger and disappointment is erupting from New York City this afternoon, after a judge ruled that Occupy Wall Street protesters must discontinue camping at Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park. After hours of deliberating, a New York Supreme Court judge ruled this afternoon that protesters would be prohibited from continuing their occupation of Zuccotti... 

OWS plans anti-foreclosure protest rally

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OWS protesters in New York City. Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters in New York are planning a new mass rally against bank foreclosures which have left thousands of Americans homeless over the past years, Press TV reports. OWS organizers say protesters are to gather in Liberty and Square from there march to Queens, the foreclosure capital of New York. Earlier, about 400 New York protesters marched... 

US unions join Occupy Wall Street protests

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'Occupy Wall Street' (OWS) demonstrations Many major US unions express support for the countrywide protests at the dire economic situation, which have been raging on under the banner ‘Occupy Wall Street’ (OWS). The Transit Workers Union (TWU) said that all its 38,000 members had voted unanimously to support and join the OWS demonstrators, British newspaper The Guardian reported... 
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