Events at Occupation Wall Street

Over 30,000 take Foley Square, Brooklyn Bridge.

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Posted 5 hours ago on Nov. 17, 2011, 4:41 p.m. EST 

At 3PM, thousands of students, workers, and other supporters gathered in Union Square chanting "Shut the city down!" and using the People's Mic to share stories of how banks and corporate greed have impacted the 99%. Simultaneously, Occupiers took to multiple subway stations in all five boroughs.

Students chanted "CUNY should be free!" and "Student Power!" as they took to the streets along 16th and 5th Avenue, shutting down traffic and leaving police powerless to respond. Police attempts to erect barricades along 5th Avenue failed to block the march, as banners reading "OCCUPIED" were seen along New School buildings.

Huge crowds marched down Broadway toward Foley Square to join another large contingent of labor unions and fellow Occupiers. Despite a massive police presence and helicopters circling overhead, protestors took Foley Square, as marchers converged and supporters poured from the subways.

Over 30,000 joined as one, marching across the Brooklyn Bridge, and proving to the world that an idea whose time has come cannot be evicted.

The 1% might steal our homes, but they cannot steal our truth.

#OWS ZUCCOTTI PARK 11-17-11 PROTESTER BEATEN - ARRESTED

‘Civil disobedience is the only way to go’

From RT

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Violent arrests have taken place in New York during a huge anti-Wall Street rally. RT correspondents as well as independent commentators bring the latest from the scene.

The Occupy Wall Street movement has marked its two month anniversary with coast to coast protests. Activists flooded US cities in what they called “A Day of Action”, all this as part of the protest against economic inequality. 

In New York, the heart of the movement, tens of thousands of activists marched across the city, literally occupying streets. 

All that was accompanied by brutal crackdowns and violent arrests, with almost 300 arrests being made in New York alone. 

OWS occupies subways

Thousands of activists have revamped the Occupy Wall Street movement nationwide. Today is being called the "national day of action." This is in response to police crackdowns that have been taking place the past week to try to diminish the movement. The protesters are planning on occupying 16 subway stations all around New York City. There have already been reports of policy brutality against the peaceful protesters and RT's Marina Portnaya gives us the latest from Manhattan.

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