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6. Occupy Wall Street Anniversary March Leads To Arrests
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 08:22 AM
Sep 2012

"NEW YORK — About 300 people observing the one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street ended a march to a small concrete park in New York's Lower Manhattan that served as headquarters for the protest movement and was its birthplace.
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"The march came on the first of three days of planned events. The official anniversary date is Monday. Occupy Wall Street's protest against economic disparity eventually spread to other parts of the country and world."

Word-for-word from HuffPo and Fox. A bit more at
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/occupy-wall-street-protesters-gather-washington-square-park-prepare-monday-morning-march-manhattan-article-1.1160598

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"25 Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested as group gathers in Washington Square Park, prepare for Monday morning march in lower Manhattan

By late afternoon, tensions between activists and cops led to arrests, as a procession of protesters chanting “F--- the police!” marched down Broadway bound for Zuccotti Park, the movement’s old base. <>

About 25 demonstrators were collared, said National Lawyers Guild chapter coordinator Susan Howard. The NYPD did not immediately confirm the number arrested.

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