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LA to Occupiers: We'll Give You Farmland if You Leave

City officials offer office space, housing for homeless, too

(Newser) - Perhaps aiming to catch more flies with honey than pepper spray, officials in Los Angeles are offering Occupy LA protesters incentives to dismantle their City Hall camp. The city has offered a 10,000-square-foot office space near City Hall for $1 per year, plus farmland elsewhere and housing for homeless...

Occupy Founders Love Zuccotti Park Eviction

Editors of Adbusters thank Mayor Bloomberg for 'escalation'

(Newser) - The founders of Occupy Wall Street are thrilled that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has booted protesters from Zuccotti Park . "I just can’t believe how stupid Bloomberg can be!" says co-founder Micah White. "This means escalation. A raising of the stakes. It’s one step closer...

Militia Kills 11, Burns Tents in Egypt Clash

Pro-democracy protesters fear generals will retain power

(Newser) - Egyptian soldiers and police set fire to protest tents in the middle of Cairo's Tahrir Square and fired tear gas and rubber bullets in a major assault today to drive out thousands demanding that the military rulers quickly transfer power to a civilian government. At least 11 protesters were...

Pepper-Spray Cops Placed on Leave

UC Davis chancellor rejects calls for her resignation

(Newser) - Now for the pepper-spray fallout at UC Davis. Two campus cops involved in spraying seated students were put on administrative leave today, and the school's chancellor struggled to keep her job, the AP reports. Chancellor Linda Katehi rebuffed the faculty's call for her resignation, promising to assemble a...

Can Occupy Survive Without Zuccotti Park?

Plus, an update on yesterday's arrests

(Newser) - What’s the future of an Occupy movement that doesn't have a space to occupy? Experts offer a range of suggestions for those who have been booted from Zuccotti Park: "At this point, I think they should quickly migrate to the Washington Monument," an NYU professor of...

Dozens Arrested as Occupiers Reach NYSE

Protesters to visit stock exchange, subway, bridges today

(Newser) - Days after being removed from Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street is launching its biggest day of protests yet, and the arrests are already piling up: Daily Intel reports that about 60 people have been arrested after clashing with police in their attempt to reach the New York Stock Exchange. Thousands...

Occupiers Should Thank Cops for Kicking Them Out

It's the best possible way for this protest to end: Matthew Yglesias

(Newser) - Outrage followed after the police dismantled the Occupy Wall Street camp in Zuccotti Park this morning, but protesters should actually be thanking Mayor Bloomberg for deciding to kick them out. After all, writes Matthew Yglesias on ThinkProgress , there are only a few ways to end a protest: “The Powers...

Money Clash Divides Occupy Protesters

'I've seen this coming for a while': protester

(Newser) - Occupy Wall Street seems to have its own 1%: Over the past few days, a fracture has opened between leaders of the movement who control its cash and tent-dwellers who are feeling rather frosty and forgotten, MSNBC reports. The divide led to yelling and jockeying at a general assembly meeting...

Cops Storm Occupy Portland
 Cops Storm Occupy Portland 
Nov 14, 2011 3:39 AM CST

Cops Storm Occupy Portland

50 Busted, Protesters Take to Streets

(Newser) - Hundreds of defiant protesters took to the streets yesterday after cops stormed Occupy Portland encampments and busted 50 people. Mayor Sam Adams ordered the camps shut because of what he called unhealthy conditions and increased crime triggered by drug users and thieves drawn to the sites, reports AP . Authorities erected...

Occupiers Battle for New Ground: College Campuses

Occupy Colleges starts new wave of protest movement

(Newser) - With city police cracking down on Occupiers nationwide, many protesters are looking for a new place to set up camp: university lawns. Occupiers have pitches their tents at only a few schools so far, but several did so at Berkeley this week after some 3,000 people demonstrated against tuition...

Protesters Will Occupy Rose Parade

Will display giant banner, march in 'human float'

(Newser) - Occupy protesters are taking to the streets in Pasadena—alongside floats and high school bands. Aiming to get the movement more national exposure, Occupiers plan to set up bases alongside the annual Tournament of Roses Parade, where they’ll put on a peaceful display of their own. Among the highlights:...

Short on Space, Occupy Turns to Bunk Beds

Some fear 'skyscraper' approach could stir tension

(Newser) - Occupy Wall Street’s popularity is becoming a logistical problem. Zuccotti Park can only hold so many people, and with hundreds spending nights there in tents now, protesters are running out of space. There’s only one way to go: up. Occupiers are following the lead of Manhattan planners and...

Protester Hanging From NY Bridge Jumps

No, he's not part of 'Occupy Wall Street'

(Newser) - A protester dangling from New York’s Tappan Zee bridge let go today as police were lowering him onto a barge, hitting the barge and plunging into the waters of the Hudson before cops fished him out. Michael A. Davitt was holding a sign accusing county officials of some sort...

Occupy Vancouver Woman Dies
 Occupy Vancouver Woman Dies 
Nov 7, 2011 6:00 AM CST

Occupy Vancouver Woman Dies

She's found in tent unresponsive after suspected OD

(Newser) - An Occupy Vancouver tent city resident has died of a suspected drug overdose, and the city's mayor is calling for the encampment to be shut down. A woman in her 20s was found unresponsive in a tent and rushed to a local hospital over the weekend, but died shortly...

Latest Occupy Arrests: Atlanta, Honolulu

Bids to occupy parks don't go over so well

(Newser) - Occupy protesters were arrested from sea to shining sea late yesterday. In both Atlanta and Honolulu, decisions to occupy parks led to fiery confrontations. Occupy Honolulu announced plans yesterday to strike an encampment in the city's Thomas Square; about 40 people were there when police arrived after the park'...

Occupy Oakland Protesters Decry, Debate Vandals

Minority of protesters embrace violent tactics

(Newser) - A group of Occupy Oakland protesters met yesterday to decry the handful of masked protesters who turned Wednesday night’s protest from a peaceful one into a violent clash with cops . “They are smearing our movement,” one protester declared to applause. “People who want to destroy our...

Unemployed Hold Sit-In in Mitch McConnell's Office

They were eventually kicked out without seeing McConnell

(Newser) - A group of about 30 unemployed people spent all day sitting in Mitch McConnell’s office yesterday, insisting that they would not leave until they spoke with the Senate minority leader. They sat quietly in his waiting room, occupying every chair in the office and much of the floor, the...

Protesters Paralyze Oakland
 Protesters Paralyze Oakland 
Nov 3, 2011 4:24 AM CDT

Protesters Paralyze Oakland

Port shut down, police firing tear gas, says Trib

(Newser) - A nation away from New York's Wall Street, thousands of sympathetic California protesters thronged the streets of Oakland yesterday and shut down the city's port in the most vigorous anti-corporate demonstration of the past weeks. Moms and dads, the jobless, students and union members joined together for a...

State Troopers Arrest Nashville Occupiers—Again

Judge throws out warrants for a second time

(Newser) - Repeating their effort from the night before, Tennessee state troopers collared more than two dozen Occupy protesters in Nashville last night—and a Nashville judge tossed the warrants for the second straight time. Magistrate Tom Nelson said today he could "find no authority anywhere for anyone to authorize a...

Goldman-Occupy Battle Heats Up Over Dinner Invitation

Credit Union loses hosts by honoring protesters

(Newser) - Ask Goldman Sachs to fund an event honoring "Occupy Wall Street," and what do you get? Lost funds, nasty emails, and a fresh look at the debate raging between bankers and protesters. It all started earlier this month when a New York credit union, known for lending to...

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