Occupy Wall Street flexes muscles one month on focus 10/19/2011

Occupy Wall Street flexes muscles one month on

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10/19/2011
NEW YORK — Exactly a month after a few hundred anti-capitalism activists set up camp in New York, the Occupy Wall Street movement has gone international and won the attention of the White House — even if no one knows where it will go next.

Protesters sheltering under plastic tarps in the well organized camp at Zuccotti Park, near Wall Street, began their second month in situ Monday with plans to follow up on big demonstrations that swept through the popular Times Square area over the weekend.

They not only have set up all the basic needs of an open-air community — ranging from a cell phone charging station to a library — but are flush with $275,000 in donations, according to Darrell Prince, an organizer at the protest’s finance committee.

The next major event could be on Saturday which will see a “National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality,” according to the www.occupywallst.org Web site..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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