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April 15th, 2012 · No Comments


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

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Dems host Occupy Detroit member



Hometownlife.com

“The Occupy Wall Street movement is sympathetic with Democratic
principles, beliefs and values.” Burnett said. “We organized this event
to demonstrate and show our feelings, and the feelings of working
Americans, about Wall Street, the banking industry

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Occupy Wall Street Now Offers… a Credit Card?



Gather.com

An Occupy Wall Street campaign to divest from top Wall Street
banks is now offering a credit card, sponsored by UMB, an American
financial services company with billions in assets, including banks, a
brokerage company, a community development

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Commentary: Gordon Gekko may be a problem for Mitt Romney



Los Angeles Times

Until recently the swank W New York Downtown hotel encouraged
its guests to "unleash their inner Gordon Gekko" — an invitation
modified last fall after it was revealed that two leaders of
Occupy Wall Street
had abandoned Zuccotti Park for those


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LAW ENFORCEMENT – Mind-numbing protests meet pepper spray



San Francisco Chronicle

Campus activists have begun to follow Occupy Wall Street's lead
and set up tents to create illegal encampments. When campus police
threatened to take away the tents, protesters have engaged in what some
police departments call "active resistance"

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Protesters announce plans for massive march in city they label 'Wall
Street
of



WCNC

by JIM MORRILL & GARY WRIGHT / Charlotte Observer CHARLOTTE, NC — A
coalition of protest leaders Friday announced plans for a massive march
the Sunday before September's Democratic convention in uptown Charlotte,
a city they called the “Wall Street of

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Youth, above all, shouldn't cast lot with left



TheDay.com

Witness the aimlessness of the Occupy Wall Street protest, whose
cause and goal should have been clear. What enabled the young OWS
protesters to camp out for months was their unemployed status. Indeed,
the unemployment rate for all 16- to 24-year-olds

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Occupy Detroit to celebrate 6-month anniversary



MLive.com

The effort followed Occupy Wall Street in New York and
similar protests against the actions of US banks and financial
institutions during the nationwide mortgage crisis. Occupy
groups also sprouted in Flint, Lansing and other Michigan
cities.

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Occupy 2.0 – Defending the Soul of the Movement?



Pacific Free Press

Nefarious bankers on Wall Street? The CIA and Blackwater type
mercenaries? Karl Rove and the Koch Brothers? No, their new enemy is
pictured not an external threat representing the status but an internal
one they have no use for.

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