A day that is expected to be filled with anti-establishment protests all around the globe, began early last night with a roving band of "anarchists" smashing car windows and store fronts in San Francisco's Mission District.
In what's becoming a weapon of choice for the digital backers of Occupy Wall Street protests, Anonymous has released the personal data of Oakland city officials in respect to the Occupy protests there that turned violent on Jan. 28.
After a violent and ugly battle at Occupy Oakland this weekend, the Occupy D.C. protest is bracing for a fight today when a noon deadline to evacuate two Washington parks expires.
The Occupy movement rages on in Oakland, where clashes with police have resulted in 400 arrests and significant damage to City Hall.
Occupy Wall Street supporters from San Diego to Anchorage are planning a "West Coast Blockade" on Monday, hoping to shut down the nation's major ports with massive protest marches.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that one person was shot and a suspect is in custody on the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Campus.
Having met no resistance from the protesters, the police line that had blocked Broadway broke the line and left the scene.
Two unrelated deaths at Occupy encampments last night -- at Occupy Burlington and at Occupy Oakland -- are together making headlines this morning and casting a shadow on the movement nationally.
As Occupy Oakland's after-dark chaos overshadowed the daytime calm in headlines, many in the movement have started to fear their message is getting drowned out by those bent on little more than destruction.
The Port of Oakland, which protesters shut down entirely on Wednesday evening, reopened on Thursday morning with no damage but a significant backlog in its operations that started days earlier when questionable containers arrived from Vietnam.
Police and protesters in Oakland continue to do battle into the early morning hours on Thursday, in what has become the most confrontational of the Occupy demonstrations.
Reports of property damaged in the rally have started coming in via Twitter. Some protesters (reportedly with the anarchist Black Bloc contingent) vandalized a Whole Foods minutes ago after rumors circulated the store had threatened to fire employees who left work to join the protest.
Google Maps seems to have gotten itself involved in a naming debate that has the company siding with protesters camped out in Oakland's central plaza.
A week after Oakland police ousted residents of a downtown protest encampment, sparking a clash with demonstrators that turned violent, the city braces on Wednesday for another massive protest that Occupy Oakland calls a general strike.
Scott Olsen, the Iraq War veteran and Occupy Oakland protester who sustained a skull fracture Wednesday after a police threw a projectile at him, "has woken up and is lucid as he awaits surgery," The Guardian reports.
Scott Olsen, a two-tour Iraq War Vet and now a critically-injured Oakland Occupier, is recovering.
As the name for a protest, the word "Occupy" works okay when you put it in front of "Wall Street," but as it becomes a worldwide political movement, it's pretty iffy.
Scott Olsen survived two tours in Iraq, but is in a hospital with critical injuries because of a confrontation between Occupy Oakland protesters and police.
When police dispersed protesters camping in front of Oakland City Hall early Tuesday morning, the activists promised to return to take back their campsite.
Hundreds of police gathered at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in Oakland at around 3 a.m. on Tuesday and in two-and-a-half hours, the two-week old tent city was gone.
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