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Occupy Wall Street protester Chris Philips screams as he is arrested near Zuccotti Park on Sept. 17, 2012, in New York. Multiple Occupy Wall Street protesters have been arrested during a march toward the New York Stock Exchange on the anniversary of the grass-roots movement.
Robert Galbraith/Reuters
A protester wears a helmet at an encampment of Occupy San Francisco demonstrators in front of the Federal Reserve Bank on Market Street in San Francisco, California March 27, 2012. An Occupy San Francisco protester was stabbed on Monday night, a day after another protester was stabbed in the same spot.
Dan Henry/Chattanooga Times Free Press/AP
A demonstrator identified as Nic "Nomad" (l.) speaks to Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Hill Monday as county authorities relocate Occupy Chattanooga tents from the lawn of the Hamilton County Courthouse to an adjacent sidewalk Monday, March 19, 2012 in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Tony Dejak/AP
Carla Rautenberg participates in a rally on Jan. 20 in Cleveland. An elaborate plan to 'occupy' courthouses in cities across the nation started off quietly, with only a handful of protesters turning out to protest a landmark US Supreme Court decision that removed most limits on corporate and labor spending in federal elections.
Tony Dejak/AP
Susan Gaydos participates in a rally on Jan. 20 in Cleveland. In more than 100 cities, people protested at courthouses nationwide. The events mark the second anniversary of the US Supreme Court's decision, Citizens United v Federal Election Commission, that opened the floodgates to unlimited corporate money in elections.
Mary Altaffer/AP
Pedestrians watch as activist associated with the Occupy Wall Street demonstrate outside a luxury midtown hotel, March 14, 2012 in New York. Several hundred protesters walked around the Waldorf Astoria behind a black urn they said represented "job cremation" during a fundraiser for Mitt Romney.
Jason Redmond/AP
A Wall Street protester stands in front of Los Angeles police officers as a large group of activists remains at the their camp at Los Angeles City Hall shortly after midnight on Nov. 28. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa stated on Nov. 25 that the protesters' campsite would be dismantled starting at 12:01 a.m. on Nov. 28.
Sarah Conard/Reuters
Writer and activist Starhawk (ground) demonstrates how to act when being arrested during the "Occupy the Midwest" regional conference in St. Louis, Missouri, Friday, March, 16, 2012. Two demonstrators were charged on Friday with assaulting a police officer following the arrests of 15 people at the start of a Midwest protest.
Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
Protesters meditate outside City Hall at the Occupy LA encampment after the 12:01 a.m. eviction deadline in Los Angeles on Nov. 28. The nearly two-month-old encampment is among the oldest and largest on the West Coast aligned with the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations protesting economic inequality in the country and the excesses of the United States financial system.
Joe Skipper /Reuters
Members of the protest group Occupy Fort Lauderdale Foreclosure Mobilization, "Peace" (l.) and "Jay" (r.), sit in front of a home owned by 84-year-old Adeline Pierre in North Miami Beach, Florida, March 28, 2012. The Occupy group hopes to stop a pending eviction order on Pierre who has lived with her family for 20 years in the home.
Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
Occupy DC demonstrator Brian Eister of Colorado packs up his camping gear, in compliance with new restrictions, at McPherson Square in Washington on January 30. At noon, the National Park Service will ban Occupy DC protesters from camping overnight here and in Freedom Plaza, where have they been living since October, in a blow to one of the highest-profile chapters of the movement denouncing economic inequality.
Mary Altaffer/AP
A police officer arrests a demonstrator affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement as they block the entrance to the New York Stock Exchange on Broad Street in New York on Nov. 17. Two days after the encampment that sparked the global Occupy protest movement was cleared by authorities, demonstrators marched through New York's financial district and promised a national day of action with mass gatherings in other cities.
Don Ryan/AP
Hundreds of Occupy protesters march in Portland, Ore., on Nov. 17. Occupy Wall Street demonstrators held modestly sized, but energetic rallies around the country to celebrate two months since the movement’s birth and signal that they aren’t ready to quit yet, despite police raids that have destroyed some of their encampments.
Lucas Jackson/Reuters
Members of the Department of Sanitation remove the belongings of the Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zuccotti Park in New York, Nov. 15. Authorities declared that the continued occupation of Zuccotti Park -- which had become a sea of tents, tarps, and protest signs with hundreds of demonstrators sleeping there -- posed a health and safety threat.
Rick Bowmer/AP
Police officers using nightsticks push people away from the Occupy Portland encampment in Portland, Ore., on Nov. 13. Police in riot gear surrounded demonstrators in a downtown park area after hundreds of people defied the mayor's order to leave the park by midnight. By early afternoon, officers had mostly surrounded the camp where the protesters were holding a 'general assembly' meeting to discuss their next moves following the eviction order.
Ben Margot/AP
Occupy Oakland protesters march in Oakland, Calif., on Nov. 2. Thousands of protesters allied with the anticapitalist Occupy Wall Street movement marched in the streets of Oakland as they geared up with labor unions to picket banks, take over foreclosed homes and vacant buildings, and disrupt operations at the fifth-busiest United States port as part of a day-long series of events, called a citywide strike, aimed at asserting the movement's strength and shutting down commerce.
Stephen Lam/Reuters
Occupy Oakland demonstrators burn garbage in Oakland, Calif., on Nov. 3. Police in riot gear clashed with protesters in Oakland in the early morning hours, firing tear gas to disperse demonstrators lingering in the streets after a day of mostly peaceful rallies against economic inequality and police brutality.
Luke MacGregor/Reuters
Demonstrators wave banners among the tents outside St. Paul's Cathedral in central London on Oct. 17. Protesters in cities across Europe have taken part in rallies inspired by the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in the United States, expressing their frustration at social inequality and corporate greed.
Max Rossi/Reuters
Demonstrators fight with policemen during a demonstration of the 'Indignant' group against banking and finance in Rome on Oct. 15. Only in Rome did the global 'day of rage' erupt into violence. Galvanized by the Occupy Wall Street movement, the protests began in New Zealand, rippled west to Europe and were expected to return to their starting point in New York.
Josh Reynolds/AP
A protester who is part of the 'Occupy Boston' group is led off by police during a standoff with Boston Police at the Charlestown Bridge in Boston on Oct. 10. Having started in New York, Occupy Wall Street demonstrations now take place all across the United States, as protesters speak out against corporate greed and the gap between the rich and the poor.
Andrew Burton/AP
Rose Caulfield (c.) from Hoboken, N.J., participates in a public session of yoga, led by yoga instructor Seane Corne, in collaboration with the Occupy Wall Street protests in Zuccotti Park on Oct. 10 in New York. The growing protest over class and wealth is entering its fourth week.
Yuri Gripas/Reuters
People sign a huge copy of the US Constitution at the Occupy DC camp in Washington on Oct. 10. More than one hundred protesters in Washington gathered at the Occupy DC camp, as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York last month, in McPherson Square about two blocks from the White House.
Frank Polich/Reuters
Members of a coalition called 'Stand Up Chicago,' dressed in Robin Hood costumes, paddle kayaks down the Chicago River during a protest in Chicago on Oct. 10. Hundreds of teachers, religious leaders, union workers, and other protesters marched in five separate 'feeder marches' – which converged into one giant march up Michigan Avenue -- inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York last month.
Jonathan Alcorn/Reuters
Jessica O'Donnell holds a sign at the Occupy LA protest on the lawn in front of Los Angeles City Hall on Oct. 8. The Occupy Wall Street movement against the US financial system and economic inequality that began in New York last month with a few people expanded to protests in more than a dozen cities.
Jonathan Alcorn/Reuters
Occupy LA demonstrators cheer on the lawn in front of Los Angeles City Hall on Oct. 8. The Occupy Wall Street movement against the US financial system and economic inequality that began in New York last month with a few people expanded to protests in more than a dozen cities.
Stephen Lam/Reuters
An Occupy Wall Street demonstrator sits with his dog as authorities begin to remove all camping materials outside the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco on Oct. 6. Thousands of anti-Wall Street demonstrators converged on New York's financial district on Oct. 5, their ranks swelled by nurses, transit workers and other union members joining the protest over economic inequality and the power of US financial institutions.
Pat Sullivan/AP
Protesters shout slogans during a rally outside Houston's City Hall on Oct. 6. Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Dallas, Houston, and Austin as cities around Texas joined the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations demanding an end to corruption in politics and business.
Seth Wenig/AP
Police officers arrest Occupy Wall Street protesters as they tried to get past police barriers and march to Wall Street in New York on Oct. 5. The protests have gathered momentum and gained participants in recent days as news of mass arrests and a coordinated media campaign by the protesters have given rise to similar demonstrations around the country.
Jessie L. Bonner/AP
Protesters gather on the front steps of the Idaho Capitol in Boise, Idaho on Oct. 5. The group, Occupy Boise, organized the demonstration against corporate America to show solidarity with protests that started last month outside the New York Stock Exchange. The movement has surged in less than three weeks from a ragged group in downtown Manhattan to protesters of all ages demonstrating from Seattle to Tampa.
Ross William Hamilton/The Oregonian/AP
People march on Southwest Broadway through downtown Portland, Ore., on Oct. 6. Concerns over Wall Street practices and economic inequality that have led to sit-ins and rallies in New York and elsewhere reverberated up to the White House, with President Barack Obama saying the protesters are expressing the frustrations of the American public.
John Minchillo/AP
Protesters from Occupy Wall Street march through New York's financial district dressed as 'corporate zombies' in New York on Oct. 3. The protests have gathered momentum and gained participants in recent days as news of mass arrests and a coordinated media campaign by the protestors have given rise to similar demonstrations around the country.
Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
A woman raises her sign in front of the Bank of America Building in Boston. People from many groups united to protest corporate greed in a demonstration in Boston on Sept. 30. A group called Occupy Boston organized the rally. Similar protests called 'Occupy Wall Street' are happening in cities across the country.
John Minchillo/AP
Protesters at Occupy Wall Street's media area coordinate news updates on laptop computers charged by a portable gas-powered generator in Manhattan's financial district's Zuccotti Park in New York on Oct. 2. The Occupy Wall Street demonstration started out small, with less than a dozen college students, but has grown to include thousands of people in communities across the country.
Tina Fineberg/AP
An unidentified participant in a march organized by Occupy Wall Street holds up a sign on Sept. 24 in New York. The 'Occupy Wall Street' protest is in its second week, as demonstrators speak out against corporate greed and social inequality. The group of hundreds of protesters has been demonstrating in the financial district since Sept. 17.
Stephanie Keith/AP
Members of the crowd react during a visit by filmmaker Michael Moore to the 'Occupy Wall Street' protest in Zuccotti Park in New York on Sept. 26. The protesters, many of whom are camping out in the lower Manhattan plaza to speak out against corporate greed and social inequality, got a morale boost from Moore, who told the crowd they were the start of something big.
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