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Occupy Wall Street shows muscle, raises $300K

Occupy Wall Street shows muscle, raises $300K

The Occupy Wall Street movement has close to $300,000, as well as storage space loaded with donated supplies in lower Manhattan. It stared down city officials to hang on to its makeshift headquarters, showed its muscle Saturday with a big Times Square demonstration and found legions of activists demonstrating in solidarity across the country and around the world.

 

Occupy Wall Street Protests Spread To Europe, Asia

Occupy Wall Street Protests Spread To Europe, Asia

Protesters in Rome smashed shop windows and torched cars as violence broke out during a demonstration in the Italian capital, part of worldwide protests against corporate greed and austerity measures. The "Occupy Wall Street" protests that began in Canada and spread to cities across the U.S. moved Saturday to Asia and Europe, linking up with anti-austerity demonstrations that have raged across the debt-ridden continent for months.

 

Occupy Wall Street Protesters Remain in Zuccotti Park as Cleanup Is Canceled

The Occupy Wall Street protesters, who viewed the cleanup plans as a pretext to evict them from Zuccotti Park, viewed the decision as a victory.

 

'Occupy' protesters suspicious of cleanup plan

Protesters expressed fears Thursday that a scheduled cleanup of the private park where they've been camped out near Wall Street is merely a ploy to unravel the demonstration.

 

Tea party group slams Occupy Wall Street; arrests grow

As the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to spread—with massive arrests Monday night in Boston—the tea party wants you to know that the progressive protests have nothing in common with its own grass-roots effort.

 

Thousands in Chicago protest financial industry

Thousands in Chicago protest financial industry

Mounting anger over joblessness and income inequality snarled rush-hour traffic in downtown Chicago as thousands of teachers, religious leaders, union workers and other protesters marched on Monday.

 

Geraldo flees ‘Occupy Wall St.’ as protesters chant, ‘Fox News lies!’

Unless it’s a tea party rally, Fox News and American protests don’t seem to mix well. Host Geraldo Rivera decided to go down to the Occupy Wall Street protests Sunday afternoon and ended up having an unpleasant experience. Protesters immediately surrounded Rivera and his network’s cameras and began shouting “Fox News Lies!” After a few minutes, Rivera decided to leave. His departure was cheered by protesters, who sang “Hey, hey, hey, goodbye!”

Senh: Democrats now has their very own sub-party to counter Republicans' Tea Party.

 

Occupy Wall Street is twice as popular as Congress, more popular than Tea Party

Occupy Wall Street is twice as popular as Congress, more popular than Tea Party

Rasmussen Reports returns from the field with what I think is the first poll about Occupy Wall Street. The buried lede: At the moment, the protesters who've been mocked on CNN and Fox News, accused of class warfare by Mitt Romney, and handled delicately by the White House, have... decent favorable ratings.

 

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