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    New York Post to Occupy Wall Street protesters: ‘ENOUGH!’
    By Dylan Stableford Senior Media Reporter | The Cutline – 4 hrs ago




    If you couldn't tell by the headline blared across the cover, the New York Post has had "ENOUGH!" of the Occupy Wall Street protests.

    In a front-page editorial published on Thursday, the Post urged Mayor Michael Bloomberg to "reclaim Zuccotti Park--and New York City's dignity."

    "The Zuccotti Park vagabonds have had their say--and trashed lower Manhattan--for long enough," the editorial begins. "They need to go. Be it voluntarily--by packing their tents and heading off in an orderly fashion. Or by having the NYPD step in--and evict them."

    The Post said that what began as a "credible protest" against Wall Street banks has "been hijacked by crazies and criminals."

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    No one should have to put up with the incessant noise, filth and downright dangerous conditions the protesters have foisted upon lower Manhattan. The drumming and tambourines. The yelling and screaming. The public urination and defecation. The drugs. The lewdness. The criminals and their crimes. It's all got to end.
    The Post, of course, is owned by News Corp., which also owns the Wall Street Journal and Fox News--two symbolic targets of the protesters' ire.

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    No one has greater respect for the First Amendment than this paper. Even radicals--especially radicals--have a fundamental right to public protest. We don't even quibble with some parts of the protesters' message--such as their resentment of the massive bailouts of banks using taxpayer money. And we certainly respect the right of Brookfield Properties, owner of the park, to permit the protests. But there comes a time when enough is enough.
    A spokesman for Occupy Wall Street did not immediately return an email from Yahoo News seeking an official response.

    "What's needed right now is mayoral leadership," the Post added. "That means giving the protesters fair warning that their party is over--and then standing firm in the face of the firestorm that surely will ignite."

    The front-page editorial comes a day after more clashes between police and Occupy Oakland protesters were reported, as demonstrators blocked a city port.

    It's worth noting that the Post was one of the first newspapers to cover Occupy Wall Street, including publishing a cover story after a police officer was shown to using pepper spray on female protesters during the first week of the protests.

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    If this movement continues on its current path it will lose all support from Americans capable of making change. They have made their point. Now it's time to actually go perform the actions which can bring about the changes they require. Protesting doesn't change anything - implementing change does. And that means removing the people from office whom are impediments to change.

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    Some more food for thought to all those posting things such as communist, socialist, Marxist etc. about the OWS. Maybe they should look at how a business is run. Last time I checked they were not run as a democracy where workers get to vote on how it is run. Last time I checked they were pretty much Totalitarian with a little communism and socialism thrown in with benefits etc. Oh and maybe next time you need the fire department or police do not call as they are socialist programs. Please also do not drive on the roads as they were built using a socialist method of payment. Oh and next time you want to go to your local town meetings and such and voice your opinion on matters or gather at a tea party rally maybe you should not do that since you believe that the OWS should not be doing that either. I just think that maybe if you want to exercise your right to hate and misrepresent others then you should also practice what you preach.
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    The more we tell them to leave....the more they will dig in their heels.

    At this point, do not aim a camera at them, but a mirror. Stand there with a mirror so that they can see their reflection. Let them see themselves as they are, acting like animals instead of civilized people.

    Some more food for thought to all those posting things such as communist, socialist, Marxist etc. about the OWS. Maybe they should look at how a business is run. Last time I checked they were not run as a democracy where workers get to vote on how it is run. Last time I checked they were pretty much Totalitarian with a little communism and socialism thrown in with benefits etc. Oh and maybe next time you need the fire department or police do not call as they are socialist programs. Please also do not drive on the roads as they were built using a socialist method of payment. Oh and next time you want to go to your local town meetings and such and voice your opinion on matters or gather at a tea party rally maybe you should not do that since you believe that the OWS should not be doing that either. I just think that maybe if you want to exercise your right to hate and misrepresent others then you should also practice what you preach.
    Here's some food for thought without any misrepresentation.....you're an idiot. I think you should check again, apparently it's been awhile.
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    'Vendetta' mask becomes symbol of Occupy protests
    By TAMARA LUSH and VERENA DOBNIK - Associated Press | AP – 3 hrs ago




    NEW YORK (AP) — Look at a photo or news clip from around the world of Occupy protesters and you'll likely spot a handful of people wearing masks of a cartoon-like man with a pointy beard, closed-mouth smile and mysterious eyes. The mask is a stylized version of Guy Fawkes, an Englishman who tried to bomb the British Parliament on Nov. 5, 1605. "They're very meaningful masks," said Alexandra Ricciardelli, who was rolling cigarettes on a table outside her tent in New York's Zuccotti Park two days before the anniversary of Fawkes' failed bombing attempt. "It's not about bombing anything; it's about being anonymous — and peaceful."

    To the 20-year-old from Keyport, New Jersey, the Fawkes mask "is about being against The Man — the power that keeps you down."

    But history books didn't lead to the mask's popularity: A nearly 30-year-old graphic novel and a five-year-old movie did. "V for Vendetta," the comic-based movie whose violent, anarchist antihero fashions himself a modern Guy Fawkes and rebels against a fascist government has become a touchstone for young protesters in mostly western countries. While Warner Brothers holds the licensing rights to the Guy Fawkes mask, several protesters said they were using foreign-made copies to circumvent the corporation.

    Yet whether the inspiration is the comic, the movie or the historical figure, the imagery — co-opted today by everyone from Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the hacker group Anonymous — carries stronger connotations than some of the Occupy protesters seem to understand. Lewis Call, an assistant history professor at California Polytechnic in San Luis Obispo, said the masked protesters are adopting a powerful symbol that has shifted meaning through the centuries.

    "You can seize hold of it for any political purpose you want," he said. "That's the real power of it."

    Fawkes was a Catholic insurrectionist executed for the bombing attempt. In the years immediately following his execution, Nov. 5 was England's official celebration for defeating Fawkes, said Call, who has written about the nexus of Fawkes, "V for Vendetta" and modern-day protests. Call said over the next three centuries, people in England started using Fawkes' image in different ways. Some used Fawkes as a symbol for putting limits on state power. Others held him up as a freedom fighter.

    Then came the comic book, a nihilistic story set in a futuristic England. And the movie. People began thinking of him as a libertarian or even anarchist hero. "Gradually over the centuries, the meaning of Guy Fawkes has dramatically changed," said Call. "The reputation of Guy Fawkes has been recuperated. Before he was originally seen as a terrorist trying to destroy England. Now he's seen more as a freedom fighter, a fighter for individual liberty against an oppressive regime. The political meaning of that figure has transformed."

    Nearly two years after the film "V for Vendetta" was released, the hacker group Anonymous wore the Guy Fawkes masks depicted in the movie during protests against the Church of Scientology. Then came Wikileaks and the Occupy movement. At Zuccotti Park in New York, the Guy Fawkes masks have been worn over the past month by Occupy protesters ranging from self-proclaimed anarchists to drummers to those impersonating "zombie" bankers. Few wore them Thursday afternoon because of the arrests of masked activists. But they weren't gone — just hidden.

    One was in the left hand of 32-year-old Jason J. Cross — right under a protest sign. He had 20 more stashed in his tent, to be sold at $5 apiece. "I had 10 here yesterday, and I sold out!" he said. Cross said he'd purchased 100 of the Chinese-made masks online. "The origins of this mask comes from the idea of rising up against the government," he said. "Guy Fawkes represents the fact that the people have the real power."

    A man at the Occupy London protests on a recent day said the mask has become a potent symbol. "It's unifying the world under one symbol," said the 33-year-old man who asked not to be named because he claimed to be a member of a group accused of hacking into government and corporate computer systems. "People hide behind the masks, put the masks on and their identity is hidden. Therefore they can do a lot more than they would if they didn't have the masks," he said, after emerging sleepy-eyed from his tent.

    The London protester said his brethren are trying to counter Warner Bros.' control of the imagery. He claims that Anonymous UK has imported 1,000 copies from China, and the distribution goes "straight into the pockets of the Anonymous beer fund rather than the Warner Brothers. Much better."

    Hudson Williams Eynon, a protester in Seattle's Westlake Plaza, said the mask is not the only corporate product the Occupy movement is using. Smart phones, cameras and Internet service are used to organize. It is something unavoidable, he said. "There's a lot of inherent ironies in protesting corporations in a corporate world," Williams Eynon said in early October.



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    One was in the left hand of 32-year-old Jason J. Cross — right under a protest sign. He had 20 more stashed in his tent, to be sold at $5 apiece. "I had 10 here yesterday, and I sold out!" he said. Cross said he'd purchased 100 of the Chinese-made masks online. "The origins of this mask comes from the idea of rising up against the government," he said. "Guy Fawkes represents the fact that the people have the real power."
    Cross bought the masks online and was selling 'em for $5 instead of sharing them for free? Capitalist swine.

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    Why am I still waiting for them to picket the white house, federal reserve, congress, etc?

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    99% percent of their complaints are about things caused by congress and politicians. So why the hell are they occupying everything but DC?

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    To be clear Guy Fawkes was a religious extremist. If he was alive today he would probably be more likely to bomb abortion clinics than take part in Occupy Wall Street. He was trying to destroy democracy and replace it with Papal dictat through a Catholic monarchy. I think the mask is all about the film V for Vendetta and nothing really about the man himself.

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    the sad thing about this protest is the misdirection...the real focus should be against politicians...and a real look at themselves in the mirror for voting in these politicians...protest the spending and the decisions politicians have made that allowed our jobs to go to other countries, the excessive spending (ridiculous salaries and perks, foreign aid, mismanagement of taxpayer funds (loans to bankfrupt companies) wars, policing actions that is occuring daily and in Washington no one willing to take a stand to change a thing, the laws that give criminals and illegals more rights than citizens...not focusing on our borders and protecting us...these are just a few of the issues...Occupy has no real focus aand it is showing and getting worse each and every day...worst of all the hypocrisy.

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    It should be an Alfred E. Neuman mask.

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    Peaceful protestors shouldn't need masks.
    Or hammers and chunks of concrete.
    Or Moltov Cocktails.
    Or Roman Candles.


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    "While Warner Brothers holds the licensing rights to the Guy Fawkes mask, several protesters said they were using foreign-made copies to circumvent the corporation"
    I see, they don't support US corporations but they support a foreign corp that uses under paid workers..

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    Yes the symbol of anarchy is a mask. Usually a bandana worn around the face of a young male in a hooded sweatshirt. Sometimes he will have a gas mask because he has experience inciting riots. When the police come he will slip away into the crowd while the inexperienced sheep get hit with batons and find themselves zip tied and in the police bus on their way to incarceration. These "guys" are your leaders OWS folks. Oh and by the way, they think of you as "useful idiots"!

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    Jason Cross pretty well covered it when he said "I sold out.".

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    Here's the hypocrisy in this.... I'm totally in favor of supporting small business, and sticking it to the man. However, the people who are protesting are ignorant (to a degree) about what they are protesting. Protest Wal-mart, Protest apple, (btw- Hillary Clinton serves on the board of directors at Walmart, and Al Gore serves on the board of directors at Apple). And tell Kanye and Michael Moore to stop collecting any and all monies and donate all the income generated on movies and album sales and live by and like the people. So lets go picket Al Gore's and Hillary Clinton's house he's in the top 1%. They are laughing their #$%$ all the way to the Bank.(which is currently being protested.) And Someone remind Kanye that when your going to support people who are protesting wealth not to wear $2000.00 jeans, $1500.00 shirt, $600.00 shoes, and a $25000.00 dollar watch. And let him know too that his music sux, as well as Michael Moore movies...
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    While Fawkes' image has been romanticized over the past 400 years, he was a criminal who tried to blow up a government building. It would be hard to imagine Americans one day wearing Timothy McVeigh masks to protest the government or corporate greed.
    "It's not about bombing anything; it's about being anonymous — and peaceful."
    Do they even listen to themselves.... makes me wonder what kind of "cigerettes" she was rollin' ??
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    Occupy protests inspires T-shirts, trademark bids
    By PAUL ELIAS - Associated Press | AP – 1 hr 15 mins ago


    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The revolution will be trademarked and put on T-shirts if an increasing number of entrepreneurs succeed in their attempts to profit from the Occupy demonstrations. A few T-shirts began to appear several days after the first protest began on Sept. 17 with a march through the streets of lower Manhattan. Now, T-shirts, coffee mugs and other merchandise emblazoned with Occupy locations and slogans are being offered online and amid the camp sites that have sprung up in cities across the country. A number of merchandise vendors, clothing designers and others are making plans to market a wide-variety of goods for a wide-variety of reasons even as some protesters decry the business plans as directly counter to the demonstrations' goals. In recent weeks, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has received a spate of applications from enterprising merchandisers, lawyer and others seeking to win exclusive commercial rights to such phrases as "We are the 99 percent," ''Occupy" and "Occupy DC 2012."

    Organizers of the protest centered in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park went so far as to file for a trademark of "Occupy Wall Street" after several other applications connected to the demonstrations were filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

    Wylie Stecklow, a lawyer representing the protesters, said the Oct. 24 filing was done to prevent profiteering from a movement many say is a protest of corporate greed. "I would like to ensure that this isn't coopted for commercial purposes," Stecklow said. "The trademark can be used for noncommercial purposes."

    Stecklow's application was one of three filed with the U.S. PTO seeking to trademark either "Occupy Wall Street" or "Occupy Wall St."

    Vince Ferraro, a small businessman based in Arizona, applied to trademark "Occupy Wall Street" a few hours after Stecklow. Ferraro declined to discuss his plans if he wins the trademark. "If I prevail," he said, "I believe there are opportunities in commerce not directly related to the movement."

    Both Stecklow and Ferraro were beat to the trademark office by a Long Island couple who filed for "Occupy Wall St." on Oct. 16. Robert and Diane Maresca paid $975 for the application, which said they intended to put the phrase on a wide-variety of products. They couldn't be reached for comment. But on Thursday, the couple withdrew their application, leaving Stecklow's clients and Ferraro as the only two competing to own "Occupy Wall Street."

    USPTO lawyer Cynthia Lynch said that when the trademark office is confronted with similar applications, it gives priority to the first application received. However, she said the trademark office also takes into consideration whether the phrase was in wide use before the first application was filed.

    Stecklow, the attorney for the protesters, says he believed his clients will prevail because they've been using the phrase "Occupy Wall Street" for months before the first application was filed.

    The USPTO's Lynch declined to discuss specific applications and said it takes about three months for the office to make an initial determination. "This rush to trademark was entirely expected and predictable because this is what everybody does," said Ron Coleman, a trademark attorney and author of a popular trademark blog. "The irony is too rich."

    Coleman predicted the New York protesters would prevail because they've been using the phrase the longest. Nonetheless, he questioned how the trademark could be managed by a group claiming to be leaderless. "Who has authority to speak on behalf of the trademark," Coleman asked.

    In the meantime, several businesses and merchandise vendors aren't waiting for the trademark office.

    Ray Agrinzone, a clothing designer, launched theoccupystore.com earlier this month. The site offers t-shirts, hoodies and even gift certificates. Agrinzone said he intends to donate 10 percent of profits to the Occupy Wall Street organizers. He said he has lost money so far, but still plans donate about $100 over the weekend. He said he will propose to organizers that a section of Zuccotti Park be turned into a merchandise zone for the benefit of the movement. He said he has received hateful tweets and email from people opposed to his store and plans to profit from the Occupy demonstrations. "There's nothing wrong with turning a profit," Agrinzone said. "I don't think that's what this is all about."

    Further, he said that fashion can help with the movement's goals. "There is no better way to spread the message of revolution than through clothes," Agrinzone said.

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    I went to protest Wall Street, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.

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    I knew someone would figure out a way to make a buck ; )

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    Ah, capitalism at its best. Will they use cheap labor in China to make the shirts?

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    I want a tee shirt with an " I am the 51% that pay taxes" or whatever percent it is.

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    The anti-capitalists' slogan is being taken over by capitalism. LOL

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    I love it! Free market capitalism making a profit from the 'revolution.'

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    Yes. Looks like your protesting is paying off. Wait, what?

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    LMAO! Typical liberal hypocrites. Capitalism is BAD unless it benefits them personally. Typical selfish generation all you wonderful hippies managed to raise. Go away!

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    U got to love a country that uses capitalism toprofit on an anticapitalism protest !
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    Unhinged: Occupiers Gone Wild(er)
    By Michelle Malkin • November 7, 2011 12:43 PM


    Because vandalizing businesses, breaking windows, provoking police, shutting down ports, and attracting rapists, thieves, and molesters to their encampments didn’t cause enough havoc…


    *An Occupier is dangling right now from the Tappan Zee bridge with a black-helicopter banner in Rockland County, NY that reads “Rockland Executive Legislature Cover Up Retaliation.”
    http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?se...rbs&id=8421701



    *Occupy DC nuts used kids as human shields http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...kdGxulDshfp6aQ , shoved old people http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoco...rporate-greed/ and caused a mini-riot http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=47377

    *Occupiers in my hometown of Colorado Springs were arrested after duct-taping themselves to a tent in violation of city code. http://www.gazette.com/articles/poli...gs-occupy.html

    *Occupiers in Portland chained themselves to concrete plaza http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/...selves-to.html More details and video of the morons at Verum Serum. http://www.verumserum.com/?p=32493

    Oh, yeah — and they’re also battling a head and body lice outbreak (via Gateway Pundit). Ewwww:
    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011...rs-camp-video/ See also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5ype...layer_embedded


    *There are now “women-only” tents in the dangerous Occupy Wall Street slums of Zuccotti Park to protect them against camp rapists. http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/11/...zuccotti-park/

    *Occupy Denver thugs defaced and danced on an American flag. http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_19272068

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    According to Occupy Arrests, there have been 3,362 arrests of the Kamp Alinsky Kids across the country. http://twitter.com/#!/OccupyArrests

    UPI reports: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/.../?spt=hts&or=2

    Police reported arrests in the Occupy movement spread to cities across the United States and a Portland, Ore., group said it did not vandalize two banks.

    In Atlanta, five people were arrested Sunday, four on bicycles and a woman draped in an American flag, after refusing to leave Woodruff Park in the city’s downtown area, The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.

    …The arrests came a day after 19 Occupy Atlanta protesters were arrested by police officers wearing riot gear. Members of the movement had spent weeks camped in the park before being removed by police late last month.

    The protests against inequities in the distribution of wealth and various social issues began in September as Occupy Wall Street in New York and spread to cities worldwide.

    A group calling itself “The Real Occupy Portland and the 99%” said Sunday it wasn’t responsible for vandalizing two banks in the city, despite an earlier claim of responsibility, CNN said.

    Protesters in Honolulu asked for donations Sunday to recover $1,700 in bail money after eight people were arrested during a sit-in at one of the city’s oldest community parks the previous day.

    Just like the Tea Party my you-know-what.






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    'Occupy' protesters mint their own coloring book
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    Anti-Wall Street protesters have a new way to pass the time: an "Occupy" coloring book complete with songs and a visit from Robin Hood.

    The "grown-up coloring book novel" was released last week by Really Big Coloring Books, a Missouri-based publisher that recently made headlines with a controversial coloring book about the September 11, 2001 attacks. "We think we're onto something with these cultural pieces that truly reflect what people want to hear and want to say," said publisher Wayne Bell.

    The company's first big hit came when it published a Barack Obama coloring book just four days after he won the historic 2008 US presidential election. It also had a great deal of success with a coloring book about the conservative Tea Party movement. The aim of the books is not to promote a particular political agenda, Bell said, but to give parents an outlet to discuss important issues and current events with their children. "We know a lot of people are going to love it and other people are going to make fun of it," Bell told AFP. "It's really an interesting reflection on what's going on out in the streets."

    To keep the book balanced, Bell's teams spoke with people across the political spectrum about the Occupy movement and included two pages showing what pundits on the right and the left are saying about it.

    To keep it fun, they included a maze, a crossword puzzle and a 1% Golden Bull Guilt Relief Form to help the rich donate their wealth to the needy.

    The original songs are perhaps the best part. One titled "Humpty Grumpty" goes: "Investments, Investments, sat on a wall; Investments, Investments had a great fall. The Congress and Senate and President's men; Couldn't put Dollars and Sense together again."

    Bell's favorite is "Sing a Song of Sixpence": Sing a song of sixpence; my pockets have gone dry. Nine & twenty A.P.R. why even try? The mortgage rate has opened, and I don't have a thing. Pitch a tent in the city park, my things I will bring."

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    I reckon that I would fall into the "other people are going to make fun of it" category...
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    New York police evict anti-Wall Street protesters
    By Michelle Nichols | Reuters – 7 mins ago


    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police wearing helmets and carrying shields evicted protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement early on Tuesday from the park in New York City's financial district where they have camped since September, dismantling their tent city and arresting about 70 people.

    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.

    Police spokesman Paul Browne said that about 70 protesters were arrested in the park during the nighttime operation for defying orders to leave and several more were arrested nearby, although most left voluntarily.

    About a dozen protesters had chained themselves together and another two had chained themselves to trees before being cut loose and removed, Browne added.

    New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the move to evict the protesters and tear down their tent city.

    "Unfortunately, the park was becoming a place where people came not to protest, but rather to break laws, and in some cases, to harm others. There have been reports of businesses being threatened and complaints about noise and unsanitary conditions that have seriously impacted the quality of life for residents and businesses in this now-thriving neighborhood," Bloomberg said in a statement.

    The protesters had set up camp in Zuccotti Park on September 17 to protest a financial system they say mostly benefits corporations and the wealthy. Their movement has inspired similar protests against economic inequality in other cities, and in some cases have led to violent clashes with police.

    The mayor said protesters and the general public can return once the park is cleaned, but would have to abide by rules banning items like tents, tarps and sleeping bags.

    "Protesters have had two months to occupy the park with tents and sleeping bags. Now they will have to occupy the space with the power of their arguments," Bloomberg said.

    Protesters vowed that the eviction from the park that had become the epicenter of their movement would not deter them and several hundred congregated at another lower Manhattan square.

    Police barricaded streets around the park, which had been lit up with spotlights. The operation began at around 1 a.m. (0600 GMT) and the last protesters had been evicted by about 4:15 a.m. (0915 GMT). Authorities swept up and removed mounds of debris.

    Police used a loudspeaker to tell protesters they would be arrested if they did not leave. "They gave us about 20 minutes to get our things together," protester Sam Wood said as the eviction was taking place. "It's a painful process to watch, they are sweeping through the park."

    Browne said the city and the owners of the park, commercial real estate corporation Brookfield Office Properties, issued fliers to the protesters saying the park would be cleared for cleaning shortly after 1 a.m. (0600 GMT).

    'ALL THEIR STUFF'

    "The sanitation department is removing all their stuff," Browne said, adding that protesters could collect belongings later in the day at another location in the city. He said police would remain at the park to ensure protesters did not return with their belongings.

    The flier said the city and Brookfield had decided "that the continued occupation of Zuccotti Park posed an increasing health and safety hazard to those camped in the park, the city's first responders and the surrounding community."

    The protesters had set up a kitchen in the middle of the park and they also had a medical tent, a social media headquarters and a library. Protesters have said several hundred people had been regularly sleeping in the park.

    Authorities had previously threatened to clear the park but backed down. On October 14, plans to clean out Zuccotti Park were postponed, averting a possible showdown between police and protesters.

    Occupy Wall Street supporters said the eviction would not crush their movement. "It will only grow stronger now. Why? Because every single person who was forced out of the park will bring five friends and everyone who heard about it will bring themselves and their friends," said Justin Wedes, 25.

    "After this we get bigger. There is no question we get bigger. This is our chance to be heard," added Jennifer Sarja, 38, who had been bringing blankets and food to protesters staying in the park.

    Wood, an unemployed 21-year-old from Farmingdale, New York, said he had been living at the park since the protests started on September 17. "They weren't disassembling anything nicely. ... They trashed our library," Wood said.

    Some people applauded the action taken by authorities.

    "I'm glad they cleared the park," said Patrick Hickey, 45, who works in construction at the nearby World Trade Center site. "I think the point they were trying to make was made a long time ago and it got lost along the way," he said as he had a cup of coffee and watched the park being cleaned.

    Police on Monday moved into an encampment by anti-Wall Street protesters in Oakland, California, clearing out occupants and taking down tents, while in Portland, Oregon, police confronted an estimated 1,000 protesters on Sunday.

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    Court order allows Occupy Wall St. protesters back
    By COLLEEN LONG and VERENA DOBNIK - Associated Press | AP – 1 hr 31 mins ago


    NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of police officers in riot gear raided Zuccotti Park early Tuesday, evicting dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters from what has become the epicenter of the worldwide movement protesting corporate greed and economic inequality.

    Hours later, the National Lawyers Guild obtained a court order allowing Occupy Wall Street protesters to return with tents to the park. The guild said the injunction prevents the city from enforcing park rules on Occupy Wall Street protesters.

    At a morning news conference at City Hall, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the city knew about the court order but had not seen it and would go to court to fight it. He said the city wants to protect people's rights, but if a choice must be made, it will protect public safety.

    About 70 people were arrested overnight, including some who chained themselves together, while officers cleared the park so that sanitation crews could clean it.

    By 9 a.m., the park was power-washed clean. Police in riot gear still ringed the public space, waiting for orders to reopen it.

    The city told protesters at the two-month-old encampment they could come back after the cleaning, but under new tougher rules, including no tents, sleeping bags or tarps, which would effectively put an end to the encampment if enforced.

    Bloomberg said the evacuation was conducted in the middle of the night "to reduce the risk of confrontation in the park, and to minimize disruption to the surrounding neighborhood."

    "The law that created Zuccotti Park required that it be open for the public to enjoy for passive recreation 24 hours a day," Bloomberg said. "Ever since the occupation began, that law has not been complied with, as the park has been taken over by protesters, making it unavailable to anyone else."

    Concerns about health and safety issues at Occupy Wall Street camps around the country have intensified, and protesters have been ordered to take down their shelters, adhere to curfews and relocate so that parks can be cleaned.

    Hundreds of former Zuccotti Park residents and their supporters marched along Lower Manhattan before dawn Tuesday.

    Some paused and locked arms outside the City Hall gates but left peacefully when police in riot gear appeared on the scene. About 300 to 400 kept moving along the sidewalks, taking care not to block them.




    Some were chanting, "This is what democracy looks like."

    Others chanted: "Hey, hey, ho, ho, our billionaire mayor has got to go."

    At about 1 a.m. Tuesday, New York City police handed out notices from Brookfield Office Properties, owner of Zuccotti Park, and the city saying that the park had to be cleared because it had become unsanitary and hazardous.

    Paul Browne, a spokesman for the New York Police Department, said the park had been cleared by 4:30 a.m. and that about 70 people who'd been inside it had been arrested, including a group who chained themselves together. One person was taken to a hospital for evaluation because of breathing problems.

    Police in riot gear filled the streets, car lights flashing and sirens blaring. Protesters, some of whom shouted angrily at police, began marching to two locations in Lower Manhattan where they planned to hold rallies.

    Some protesters refused to leave the park, but many left peacefully.

    Ben Hamilton, 29, said he was arrested "and I was just trying to get away" from the fray.

    Rabbi Chaim Gruber, an Occupy Wall Street member, said police officers were clearing the streets near Zuccotti Park.

    "The police are forming a human shield, and are pushing everyone away," he said.

    Hundreds of police officers surrounded the park in riot gear with plastic shields across their faces, holding plastic shields and batons which were used on some cases on protesters.

    Police also came armed with klieg lights, which they used to flood the park, and bull horns to announce that everyone had to clear out.

    Jake Rozak, another protester, said police "had their pepper spray out and were ready to use it."

    Notices given to the protesters said the park "poses an increasing health and fire safety hazard to those camped in the park, the city's first responders and the surrounding community."

    It said that tents, sleeping bags and other items had to be removed because "the storage of these materials at this location is not allowed." Anything left behind would be taken away, the notices said, giving an address at a sanitation department building where items could be picked up.

    Alex Hall, 21, of Brooklyn, said police walked into the park "stepping on tents and ripping them out."

    Occupy encampments have come under fire around the country as local officials and residents have complained about possible health hazards and ongoing inhabitation of parks and other public spaces.

    Anti-Wall Street activists intend to converge at the University of California, Berkeley on Tuesday for a day of protests and another attempt to set up an Occupy Cal camp, less than a week after police arrested dozens of protesters who tried to pitch tents on campus.

    The Berkeley protesters will be joined by Occupy Oakland activists who said they would march to the UC campus in the afternoon. Police cleared the tent city in front of Oakland City Hall before dawn Monday and arrested more than 50 people amid complaints about safety, sanitation and drug use.

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