Tag Archive: Occupy Wall Street


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Occupy Wall Street began to disintegrate in rapid fashion last winter, when the weekly meetings in New York City devolved into a spectacle of fistfights and vicious arguments.

Punches were thrown and objects were hurled at moderators’ heads. Protesters accused each other of being patriarchal and racist and domineering. Nobody could agree on anything and nobody was in charge. The moderators went on strike and refused to show up, followed in quick succession by the people who kept meeting minutes. And then the meetings stopped altogether.

In the city where the movement was born, Occupy was falling apart.
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Hundreds of activists across the U.S. joined the worldwide May Day protests on Tuesday, with Occupy Wall Street members in several cities leading demonstrations and in some cases clashing with police.

In Oakland, Calif., stinging gas sent protesters fleeing a downtown intersection where they were demonstrating. It was unclear whether police fired the gas, but officers took four people into custody.
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Hundreds of activists across the U.S. joined the worldwide May Day protests on Tuesday, with Occupy Wall Street members in several cities leading demonstrations against major financial institutions.

In New York, police in riot gear lined the front of a Bank of America, facing several dozen Occupy activists marching behind barricades. “Bank of America. Bad for America!” they chanted.
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A New York City police officer was slashed during Thursday’s “Occupy Wall Street” action and a second officer was taken to a local hospital with an eye injury, after clashes with protesters and activists across lower Manhattan, sources told FoxNews.com.

Both officers are said to be in stable condition, although the incident marked an escalation of tension in the uneasy give-and-take between New York officers charged with maintaining order and protesters determined to be heard. View full article »

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Having marshaled a pittance of the planned-for protesters for Thursday’s march, “Occupy Wall Streeters” retreated with the passing of noon to familiar ground–their old haunt at Zuccotti Park–to regroup and plan their next move on the proverbial 1 percent.

There, a couple hundred protesters, their ranks depleted with the passing hours, congregated under the wary and watchful eyes of waiting NYPD officers. Above them, gray clouds gathered. Below them, wet puddles soaked their besotted feet.

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Organizers of the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York are moving ahead with plans for a day of civil disobedience and marches tomorrow.

They’ll be joined by some angry city leaders who have publicly denounced Mayor Michael Bloomberg for the raid early yesterday that cleared the park of protesters and dismantled the tent city.

Protesters were allowed to return last night, two at a time, but police were enforcing a ban on sleeping. View full article »

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The Occupy Wall Streeters took a piledriver to the face when former WWF wrestler Ultimate Warrior (Brian Hellwig) called them a bunch of hypocrites.

“I find it a little ironic that most of these kids own iPads and iPhones and all these material things. They’re a big part of the consumerism that goes on in this country,” Warrior told TMZ. View full article »

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