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A cross-section of 13 news organizations in New York City lodged complaints on Monday about the New York Police Department’s treatment of journalists covering the Occupy Wall

Street movement. Separately, 10 press clubs, unions and other groups that represent journalists called for an investigation and said they had formed a coalition to monitor police behavior [...]

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US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week. An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of unresisting, supine students at UC Davis [...]

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A retired New York Supreme Court judge has claimed she was manhandled by a policeman after watching him beat a woman at the Zuccotti Park raids.

Karen Smith was working as a legal observer when she saw a distressed woman pushed to the ground and beaten [...]

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Retired Philadelphia Police Officer Ray Lewis talks to Luke Rudkowski of We Are Change about his arrest at Occupy Wall Street.

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LRAD (Sound Cannon), Beatings, Protesters putting chains around their necks to prevent eviction, Luke Rudkowski from We Are Change explains exactly what happened as the police moved in to destroy the Occupy Wall Street Camp.

LRAD on scene, pic1pic2.

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Liberty Plaza (Zuccotti Park), home of Occupy Wall Street for the past two months and birthplace of the 99% movement that has spread across the country and around the world, was evicted by a large police force in full riot gear. [...]

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After an all night standoff between Portland Police and Occupy Portland campers the camp is taken apart and items left are thrown in dumpsters.

Source : Oregon Live – Occupy Portland Police Take Back Two Parks, But the [...]

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The predawn confrontation that Occupy Portland protesters prepared for this weekend unfolded instead in daylight hours Sunday, after throngs of supporters had gone home to sleep and at a time when bleary-eyed campers were caught unaware.

Portland police successfully cleared the two downtown parks where protesters had camped since Oct. 6, but the evictions sparked [...]

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Guerrilla gardening is the occupation of ill-used land to support the communities and ecosystems to which that land rightfully belongs. As the Occupy movement “puts down roots” in public and private spaces across the world, guerilla gardening is essential to growing a sustainable movement free from dependance on [...]

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“Since the formal mechanisms of power refuse to restore the rule of law, then we, the 99 percent, will have to see that justice is done.”

Chris Hedges made this statement in New York City’s Zuccotti Park on Thursday morning [...]

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Reports from the Frontlines
As the Occupy Wall Street Movement ends its third week, occupations have sprung up around the country, and with the growing media coverage, the word is spreading fast. Citizen occupations are now taking place in New York, Atlanta, LA, Chicago and nationwide.

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At the personal level I have distanced myself from the local Occupiers / 99%-ers for various reasons.

Ample planning on their part and a few activities but no occupying and few meetings at busy intersections, etc. to show a presence, etc.

I have done a few solo public appearances bearing the [...]

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NYPD Won’t Tolerate Illegal Behavior

It won’t happen here.

Mayor Bloomberg vowed Friday that the Occupy Wall Street movement would not descend into violence like the protests in [...]

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The Occupy Wall Street Movement that began on September 17th of this year, has been spreading like wildfire across the globe, though curiously it remains a mystery to some. To give you an idea of the growth of the Wall Street Occupation, this Infograph was created and submitted by economist and language major, Muhammad Saleem and [...]

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Meet the Anthropologist, Activist, and Anarchist Who Helped Transform a Hapless Rally into a Global Protest Movement, David Graeber

David Graeber likes to say that he had three goals for the year: promote his book, learn to drive, and launch a worldwide revolution. The first is going well, [...]

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The arresting officer came by the cell, Samantha Zucker said, to make snide remarks about finding her with a friend in Riverside Park after its 1 a.m. closing.

For instance:

“He was telling me that I needed to get a new boyfriend, that I should get [...]

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