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Occupy protests
On Sept. 17, hundreds of people protested against Wall Street greed in Lower Manhattan and marched up Broadway; about 150 people stayed overnight in Zuccotti Park, a privately owned public space near Wall Street. Since then, while living in the park, the protesters have sponsored rallies and marches on most days — and the movement has thrived. Between 1,000 and 1,500 people have reportedly been arrested in protests across the United States, with the largest numbers in New York, Boston and Chicago. Primer | Timeline
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Occupy protesters may be less confrontational, but their list of grievances remains long and draws from many causes.
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Activists in L.A. and around the country weigh new strategies to continue momentum after the loss of City Hall and other sites, and a possible end to using camps as a primary tactic.
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Police abandon classic strategies to design a crowd-control plan unique to L.A. site.
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The LAPD and protesters showed admirable restraint in resolving the City Hall demonstration.
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Civil rights attorneys say many of them may not be charged and should be freed immediately. Most of the arrestees, who face a minimum bail of $5,000, are young, white and male.
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Graeme Knowles says his position as dean ‘was becoming untenable’ in the face of mounting criticism of St. Paul’s response to the anticapitalist protesters camped outside the church.
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City crews begin to clean up after the two-month encampment outside Los Angeles City Hall. Possessions left behind in the nighttime eviction offer a glimpse into a community.
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City officials have set a 12:01 Monday deadline for protesters to leave their encampment outside City Hall, but more Occupiers arrive for a late rally.
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More than 70 are arrested in downtown L.A., and several unions call on the city to let protesters stay at a bank plaza on Bunker Hill. At a march in Manhattan, 200 are taken into custody.
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Occupy Wall Street needs to recognize some realities about what drives income inequality.
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About 700 protesters ponder their next move after officers dismantle the tent city in a predawn raid.
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Even the busy port is closed as teachers, city workers and others march, chant and dance through the city during Occupy Oakland’s general strike.
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Occupy Wall Street is not likely to have the kind of effect on Democratic politics that the “tea party” movement has had in the GOP, a leading Democratic strategist said Thursday.
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With eye on Oakland, officials seek a peaceful end to Occupy camps.
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Traffic in Westwood was badly snarled Wednesday afternoon because of a student protest and street sit-in against the cost of higher education and the banking industry’s purported role in it.
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After crews build wooden boxes to protect a fountain and a memorial at City Hall, protesters cover them with pictures and slogans.
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The demonstration, trying to build on the momentum generated by the Occupy movement, was timed to coincide with a grass-roots drive to get people across the nation to move money from big banks into credit unions.
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With a snowstorm predicted for New York this weekend, organizers at the outdoor encampment are stocking up on outdoor gear. But the city has made clear it doesn’t want them getting too comfortable.
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Many of the twentysomethings protesting in Manhattan have racked up sizable debts, and some are left to wonder whether their diplomas may be worth less than their cardboard signs.
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Occupy L.A. protesters and those at demonstrations like it are finding out what homeless people in the U.S. have long known: Sometimes it’s difficult to relieve yourself without committing a crime.
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President Obama is linking the tea party movement with the Occupy Wall Street protests, saying they both speak to the belief of some Americans that they are “separated from government.”
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Weekend demonstrations in support of the Occupy Wall Street effort led to several hundred arrests, with 70 held in New York and 175 in Chicago.
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When Kanye West, Al Sharpton and Russell Simmons drop by the Manhattan protest site, activists accuse them of using the movement to boost their own profiles and agendas.
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Liberal professor Cornel West was one of 19 people arrested on the steps of the U.S.
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Thousands of anti-greed protesters, told they must clear their camping gear out of Zuccotti Park, brace for a showdown with the NYPD on Friday.
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Police arrest about 10 people taking a victory lap in Lower Manhattan after the planned cleaning of Zuccotti Park is canceled. Those who have been camped out at the park for 28 days saw the cleaning as a ploy to evict them.
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The Occupy Wall Street movement is rooted in uprisings against policies that favor the financial elite over ordinary people.
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Some observers see Occupy Wall Street as a movement that could morph into something like a tea party for Democrats. Protesters say that’s not their aim.
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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.
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U.S. history teaches us that the politics of peaceful disruption has been an effective way to prod the establishment toward greater social and economic justice. But will the current movement be this effective?
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The demonstrators were marching with the group Occupy Wall Street, which has been camping in Manhattan to protest corporate greed.
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Occupy Los Angeles, inspired by Occupy Wall Street, sets up camp at City Hall. Meanwhile, the Trespass Parade makes its way through downtown L.A. with dancers, demonstrators and musicians.
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Almost two weeks into an anti-greed sit-in, the ‘leaderless resistance movement’ is at a crossroads.
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It is far too early to suggest that the protesters represent a resurgence of the left. Yet it would be a mistake to write off the movement before it gets started.
