Right to the City

By Mara Siegler, Black Book Mag

Occupy Wall Street, the demonstration at NYC's Zuccotti Park against corporations and gr$$d and the entire kitchen sink of problems facing the mostly unemployed nation, is now in it's second week and stronger than ever. Media outlets have started covering the story since women were pepper sprayed last week; the protestors will be publishing their own newspaper as of this evening; celebrities like Michael Moore, Russell Simmons, and Susan Sarandon have made an appearance; and the numbers swelled yesterday at the promise of a free Radiohead concert. While the band's performance ended up being a hoax, they managed to retain a portion of the crowd for today's march and the movement has spread to other cities...

http://www.blackbookmag.com/nightlife/more-1.24732

Day 14.

700+ protestors are arrested after thousands march from Liberty Plaza to the Brooklyn Bridge.

Filmed by Kristopher Rae
Edited by Kristopher Rae & Nicky Eyebrows
Music "The Youth" - MGMT

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By AL BAKER, COLIN MOYNIHAN and SARAH MASLIN NIR, New York Times

In a tense showdown above the East River, the police arrested more than 700 demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street protests who took to the roadway as they tried to cross the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday afternoon...

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/police-arresting-protesters-on-brooklyn-bridge/?hp