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Occupy Wall Street protesters hope to show there is life left in their movement with a mass rally later in New York and other US cities.

A judge upheld New York City's legal justification for evicting Occupy Wall Street protesters from a park on Tuesday after police in riot gear broke up a two-month-old demonstration against economic inequality.

Hundreds of supporters of Occupy Wall Street vowed Tuesday to keep up their protests, convening at a busy corner for a meeting to discuss their next move; the city, meanwhile, appeared headed for a legal showdown over its eviction of protesters from the group's encampment.

New York police early on Tuesday sought to clear Zuccotti park in the city's financial district, where protesters from the Occupy Wall Street movement have been camped since September, officials and protesters said.

An Oakland police officer raises his hands to his head at the scene where a man was shot and killed near an Occupy Oakland encampment Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, in Oakland, Calif.

Dozens of protesters were arrested on the campus of UC Berkeley, where university police moved in to break up an Occupy Berkeley encampment.

Occupy Wall Street is going on the road – a two-week walk to Washington. A small group of activists plans to leave Manhattan's Zuccotti Park at noon Wednesday and arrive by the Nov. 23 deadline for a congressional committee to decide whether to keep President Barack Obama's extension of Bush-era tax cuts. Protesters say the cuts benefit only rich Americans.

Police on motorcycles and riot gear converged on Occupy protesters near a park in downtown Atlanta on Saturday night, leading to 19 arrests after the crowd poured onto nearby streets and snarled traffic.

The revolution may not be televised, but the “Occupy” protests are now reaching into American homes via a television ad. The 30-second ad features nine “Occupy Wall Street” protesters talking about what they would like the movement to achieve. It is the work of filmmaker David Sauvage, who said he filmed it in half a day on Oct. 3.

Look at photos or videos from around the world of Occupy protesters and you'll likely spot a handful of people wearing masks of a cartoon-like man with a pointy beard, closed-mouth smile and mysterious eyes.