Occupy Wall Street
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Charlotte Police chief: Pre-DNC march is mostly uneventful
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About 800 marchers carried signs and banners, banged drums and chanted on a sunny afternoon as part of the March on Wall Street South. The march's general purpose was to decry corporate greed, but it drew people demonstrating for a variety of causes.
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Occupy DC: 11 protesters found guilty by judge
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Eleven Occupy DC protesters have been found guilty of refusing police orders to get down from a wooden structure they erected in McPherson Square in December. One was also found guilty of indecent exposure. One person was acquitted.
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Occupy protesters try to halt eviction
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Protesters locked arms, tied the front gates shut, grabbed on to iron railings, used plumbers' pipe - anything they could to keep the marshals out of what was Dawn Butler's home.
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Frederick considers camping ban as Occupy group protests G-8 at Camp David
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Frederick city aldermen will vote on banning camping at all city parks, just days before Occupy Frederick demonstrators plan a "people's summit" to protest the G-8 summit at nearby Camp David.
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May Day Occupy protests spark thousands of protesters worldwide
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Occupy protesters are marking May Day worldwide with a series of protests, including one in Washington that will go from Malcolm X Park to the White House.
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'Wall Street' merger: DC's 2 Occupy groups to merge at McPherson Square
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Washington's two ongoing Occupy protests plan to merge with one group moving out of Freedom Plaza and joining protesters at McPherson Square.
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National Park Service gives notice to Occupy DC for cleanup in McPherson Square
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The National Park Service wants to get McPherson Square spruced up after months of Occupy DC protests there, but they face several roadblocks.
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Occupy protest anniversary ends in arrests in New York
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Dozens of police officers cleared the park where the Occupy movement was born six months ago and made several arrests after hundreds of protesters returned in an anniversary observance and defiantly resisted calls to clear out.
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Montgomery College offers summer course on Occupy Wall Street
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Montgomey College is responding after critics accused the school of offering a summer course for high schoolers that would try to recruit them to the Occupy Protest movement.
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Occupy Congress: Occupy DC camps persist as rally planned next week
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While the movement flickers, the protest in the nation's capital is persisting into the winter, buoyed by demonstrators who camp out on federal land in a city with a tolerant, even celebrated, history of civil disobedience.
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29 Occupy Tampa protesters arrested after peaceful protest
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Police in Florida have arrested 29 Occupy Tampa protesters who refused to leave after a peaceful protest at Riverfront Park around 10 p.m. Thursday.
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Occupy Charlottesville protesters arrested, including one nude
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More than a dozen Occupy Charlottesville protesters--including one female who stripped off her clothes--face trespassing charges for refusing to leave a city park after the group's permit expired.
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Latest in the Occupy protests from California to Maine
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Here are the latest developments in the Occupy protests, including California, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington state.
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Occupy demonstration targets Congress, supercommittee
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A small but determined crowd spoke out about the failure of the congressional Supercommittee Wednesday.
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'Occupy the Highway' marchers reach D.C.
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About two dozen Occupy Wall Street participants arrived in the nation's capital after a two-week, 240-mile march from New York.
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POLL: Should police use pepper spray on protesters who are not resisting?
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Images of police dousing protesters will be some of the defining imagery of the Occupy Wall Street movement. In some countries, pepper spray is illegal for civilians to possess. Do you think police should be allowed to use it?
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Annette Spicuzza, UC-Davis police chief, now on leave
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The president of the University of California system said he was "appalled" at images of protesters being doused with pepper spray.
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Protesters occupy vacant former homeless center in downtown D.C.
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Police have arrested 13 protesters after entering a city-owned building at 13th and K Streets, NW that was being occupied by a group inspired by Occupy D.C.
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