Occupy Wall Street protesters massed outside banks, meditated in public and staged anti-corporate song and dance routines on Tuesday in a May Day effort to revive a movement that triggered nationwide protests against economic injustice last year.
Police arrested small numbers of protesters in minor clashes around New York, chasing hundreds of marchers on Broadway, as demonstrations unfolded around the country.
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Here’s the good news: a man who allegedly stabbed another man at the Occupy San Francisco camp showed up again, whereupon a number of Occupiers grabbed him and called the cops.
Here’s the bad news: there were two stabbings at the Occupy SF encampment.
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A suspect in a stabbing at the Occupy San Francisco encampment is behind bars thanks to the quick thinking of a fellow protester who made a citizen’s arrest Thursday morning.
“Everybody’s accepted as part of the 99 percent, but if you’re here to harm, or steal from or in any other way give disrepute to Occupy, then we will police ourselves,” said Nick Shaw, 32, the protester who apprehended the suspect.
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Check your weapons on Market Street, please.
After two stabbings in as many days, the group working to revive the Occupy SF movement in front of the Federal Reserve Bank said Tuesday it wants folks to turn in their weapons before joining the fight against economic disparity.
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After police evicted Occupy SF from Justin Herman Plaza in early December, winter set in and the cold weather seemed to dampen most protesters’ enthusiasm for sleeping outdoors.
But over the past few weeks, a small group has quietly re-occupied the sidewalk in front of the Federal Reserve building on Market Street, declaring a resurgence of the six-month-old movement.
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Some 300 people gathered in Civic Center Plaza on Thursday afternoon to demand that California tax the rich to pay for education, as school districts and public colleges prepare for another year of cuts and layoffs. After the rally, 13 protesters were arrested when they refused to leave the atrium of the nearby state office building until their demands that California fully fund education were met.
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On the heels of the Occupy Wall Street movement’s anger regarding the role banks played in the economic downturn, some officials are urging The City to move its money or even consider establishing a bank of its own.
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The Occupy SF movement could come back with a bang Friday when more than 50 supporting groups and possibly thousands of protesters have plans to wreak havoc on banks in the Financial District. The protest is being billed by organizers as the largest San Francisco will have seen since demonstrations against the Iraq War in 2003.
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After relentless police raids on the downtown encampments of Occupy SF, the once-mighty tent city has dwindled to only a handful of daytime protesters outside the Federal Reserve Bank on Market Street. But mavens of the highly publicized movement against U.S. wealth inequity say they have another idea in store — Occupy 2.0.
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Heady with their successful attempts to block trucks and curb business at busy ports up and down the West Coast, some Occupy Wall Street protesters plan to continue their blockades and keep staging similar protests despite requests to stop because they're hurting wage earners.Thousands of demonstrators forced shipping terminals in Oakland, Calif., Portland, Ore., and Longview, Wash., to halt parts of their operations Monday.
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