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New York Times: A protester who was led out of Zuccotti Park on Thursday afternoon with blood streaming from his face had thrown a small battery at police officers and taken a deputy inspector’s hat, the police said. He was charged with attempted assault and grand larceny. The police said the man identified himself as [...]

New York Times: Among those arrested at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge early Thursday evening was the city’s top labor leader and the president of the nationwide Service Employees International Union, according to a union spokeswoman. The labor leader, George Gresham, the president of 1199 S.E.I.U. United Healthcare Workers East, and the president of [...]

Bloomberg – Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, whose chants against corporate greed resounded in Lower Manhattan, stormed across the Brooklyn Bridge, six weeks after mass arrests there thrust them into the national spotlight. Crowds that appeared to number in the thousands took part in the day’s events, which began with unsuccessful attempts to disrupt the New [...]

(NBC Chicago) — Controversial activist, professor and author Bill Ayers was videotaped recently giving advice about non-violent protesting to Occupy Chicago protesters. Filmed last month by Education Action Group, EAG-TV, and posted on their YouTube page, the video shows Ayers teaching a group of protesters in a “teach-in.” Ayers made headlines in 2008 when his [...]

Glenn Beck: Hmmmmmm….November 17th??? Why November 17th??? Of all days, why would a leftist organization pick November 17th to stage a mass protest?? The CFR reminds us of the significance of that date: What is November 17? A radical, leftist Greek terrorist group, also known as 17 N or N 17, with a tiny membership [...]

(Business Insider) — It’s called “Occupy Bloomberg’s Mansion Drum Circle Protest And Love-In Art Show,” and it will take place this Sunday at 2:00 PM, in front of Mayor Bloomberg’s massive mansion on 17 East 79th Street, and should stretch to Central Park. The party is slated to last for 24 hours. We got a [...]

An Idaho man accused of firing two shots at the White House last week has been charged with attempting to assassinate President Barack Obama or his staff. Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, made his first court appearance before a federal magistrate in Pittsburgh on Thursday, one day after he was arrested at a western [...]

Reuters: New York police prevented protesters from shutting down Wall Street on Thursday, arresting more than 200 people in repeated clashes with an unexpectedly small but spirited Occupy Wall Street rally. Protesters took to the streets in rainy New York and cities across the United States for a day of action seen as a test [...]

“These guys are terrorists!” – Father of child attacked by Obama’s civilian army. NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — They were caught in the middle of madness. Some grade school students were forced to walk a gauntlet of screaming “Occupy Wall Street” protesters just to get to school on Thursday. It was a wild day in lower [...]

(KCCI) — A 27-year-old man has been charged after Montana police found an 11-year-old boy drunk at an Occupy Missoula protest. John Skinner encountered the boy and a friend outside a Missoula bar last week. The friend asked Skinner to buy them alcohol, and he told police he brought the boys to his tent on [...]

Via the great Gatway Pundit: Occupy St. Louis protesters stormed the Municipal Courts Building and hung banners from the upper floors this morning. The protest mob blocked the whole street – pi$$ing off local workers who were trying to get home from work. Read the whole thing

(Politico) — The Service Employees International Union, a political powerhouse on the Democratic side, made its early endorsement of Barack Obama yesterday; today, its president Mary Kay Henry is in New York for an Occupy demonstration on the Brooklyn Bridge. With Obama and Democrats trying to benefit from the energy of the Occupy movement while [...]

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Occupy Wall street demonstrators protest on the streets of lower Manhattan near the New York Stock Exchange during what organizers called a “day of action” in New York, November 17, 2011. About 500 Occupy Wall Street protesters marched from a New York park on Thursday to the stock exchange for a protest that the movement [...]