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Five Occupy Wall Street protesters busted trying to block entrance of New York … New York Daily News By Sarah Armaghan / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested after singing in the courtroom to disrupt a foreclosure auction. Five Occupy Wall Street protesters were pinched Monday morning as demonstrators tried to block [...]

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Occupy's New "Sleepful Protest" Sits At Neighborhood Nexus Gothamist But unlike the vibrant, if somewhat insulated atmosphere of Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street's newest encampment is positioned at the nexus of a neighborhood, and residents and passersby seemed eager to engage the demonstrators on the well-lit corner … See all stories on this topic » [...]

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Checking in on the Occupy Wall Street movement 89.3 KPCC AP Photo/The Enterprise, Wayne Tilcock University of California, Davis Police Lt. John Pike uses pepper spray to move Occupy UC Davis protesters while blocking their exit from the school's quad November 18, 2011 in Davis, Calif. The long-awaited report … See all stories on this [...]

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Occupy takes protest to street — the one near Bank of America Los Angeles Times On Friday, Occupy Wall Street hopes to convince people to move their money out of Bank of America and into credit unions. Many protesters hold Bank of America responsible for kicking families out of their homes through foreclosures. See all [...]

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Occupy Wall Street Groups Unite Over Foreclosures Huffington Post Fighting foreclosures and evictions, activists say, gives the disparate movement a unifying focus and embodies its anti-Wall Street message. It also has offered a way for Occupy – up till now a largely white, middle-class movement – to broaden its … See all stories on this [...]

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News 9 new results for #occupy wall street Occupy Wall Street Is Only Half Right About Credit Reform TIME Occupy Wall Street's Alternative Banking Group last month wrote to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau chief Richard Cordray, proposing changes to our nation's credit scoring system. I agree that the current system is deeply flawed: Who actually [...]

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Two Occupy Wall Street Activists Arrested For L Train "Priority Seating" Stickers Gothamist [Update Below] This week, a pair of Occupy Wall Street activists went around the city affixing "Priority Seating For The 1%" stickers to various subways as a protest to the MTA being underwritten by Wall Street. And less than a day after [...]

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Occupy Wall Street Activists Respond to the 99 Percent Spring The Nation. (blog) Seizing on the popularity of Occupy Wall Street, a broad coalition of liberal-left groups and organizations created the 99 Percent Spring, a movement aiming to recruit and train 100000 Americans to learn the ways of non-violent direct action. See all stories on [...]

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With nods to Occupy Wall Street, economic inequality teach-in generates light … UC Berkeley By Barry Bergman, NewsCenter | April 5, 2012 It may have lacked the drama associated with Occupy Wall Street, but a UC Berkeley teach-in on economic inequality Wednesday quietly laid bare the intellectual underpinnings of the nationwide push to narrow … [...]

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Can Occupy Wall Street be more than talk, teach-ins and tents? Los Angeles Times Last fall, at the height of the protests that began in New York's Zuccotti Park and sprang up in city after city, all the way to Oakland, Occupy Wall Street seized the attention of the nation and, for the first time [...]

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