Protesters Close Down London's St. Paul's for the First Time Since World War II
London's iconic cathedral survived bombings from Hitler, but it's having a hard time with the Occupy London protesters.
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Last night New York's support for Boston was evident on a side of a building. Words of support and love for the usually rival city were projected out of a van onto the side of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. So how did those projections come to be?
London's iconic cathedral survived bombings from Hitler, but it's having a hard time with the Occupy London protesters.
Even though Mayor Bloomberg seems to have mixed feelings about Occupy Wall Street, he's making it clear that he's not one to tolerate protests without permits, in Zuccotti Park or elsewhere.
Cartoonist Lisa Benson the relationship between Occupy Wall Street and Democrats.
At a community board meeting on Thursday night, the protesters and the residents living close by Zuccotti Park hashed out ideas that tried to satisfy both parties, limiting drum beats and arranging for bathroom access.
The leaderless Occupy Wall Street encampment is shifting away from its anarchic roots to something resembling a governed society, and not everyone in Zuccotti Park is happy about it.
Anthony Bologna, who gained notoriety after a video went viral of him pepper spraying several women at Occupy Wall Street, told sources for DNAInfo's Murray Weiss "I did not intend to spray the women."
On the surface, bankers like to project tough, no-nonsense personas, but judging by how they're reacting to the protesters outside their offices, they are pretty easily spooked.
Just as some liberal critics of the Tea Party labeled it a broadly racist movement, right-wing critics of Occupy Wall Street are tarring it with charges of anti-Semitism.
Zuccotti Park is not a restaurant, night club, art gallery or fashion show, but that won't stop culture writers from trying to convince us otherwise.
While the movement has been identified as a millennial driven movement, the demographics are much more diverse than that.
Alec Baldwin called his Tuesday night visit to Zuccotti Park "too brief," but it looks like the trip was a very long two hours.
Forced to choose in a Gallup poll, 64 percent of people surveyed picked the federal government as having the most blame for the country's economic problems, with just 30 percent picking Wall Street.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is reporting that for the first time ever Americans owe more than $1 trillion in student loans altogether--which helps explain why said Federal Reserve Bank has been surrounded by said loan-laden Occupy Wall Streeters.
Remember the New York Police Department deputy inspector caught on video pepper spraying calm-looking protesters a week into Occupy Wall Street? Of course you do.
You've got to love when the words of a mere comedian can become the conventional wisdom of the President of the United States.
President Obama has addressed Occupy Wall Street again, saying "they're not that different from some of the protests we saw coming from the Tea Party."
No matter which side of Occupy Wall Street they're on -- protesters, cops, the media covering them, the office workers, and the gawkers -- everyone's gotta eat.
Refreshed from a week off, Jon Stewart checked in on the progress of Occupy Wall Street and gave a bit of advice to the fledgling movement.
He's single, eats organic food, and, bizarrely, likes both Coldplay and Radiohead
Not only do 87 percent say they think protesting is "okay," 67 percent say they agree with their views
Officials from both countries offered comment on the movement today
The activist professor was arrested at the Supreme Court on Sunday with 18 others
Donations are coming in through its web site and a big plastic jug
A "cyber security professional" has been forwarding organizers' emails to the FBI
Protests against the financial establishment — and other things — cross Europe and Asia
Detective Rick Lee has the perfect look and attitude for this movement
After the news that the Zuccotti Park cleaning was postponed a downtown march turns chaotic
Brookfield properties, the parks owner, postponed a planned Friday cleaning
George Soros-Reuters flap aside, a bunch of Wall Street types are showing sympathy
Commissioner Ray Kelly says protesters won't be able to sleep in the park after Friday
Organization's a problem, so a bunch of programmers made their own version of Facebook to solve it
By running through the same script liberals used when tea partiers started rallying
The mayor visited Occupy Wall Street yesterday, issued statement saying cleaning will begin Friday
The vampire squid should probably steer clear of angry protesters
Throwing support behind protesters, Elliot Spitzer urged Obama to sack Tim Geithner
The magazine's editors make the case that liberals should be wary of siding with the protestors
The New York Times columnist praises Occupy Wall Street protesters, but won't be joining them
Those keeping their jobs will on average make six times the private sector's average salary
On Tuesday, the protestors plan to march past the homes of the moguls
The businessman and Republican presidential hopeful hates those protests
Amy Kremer, chairwoman of the Tea Party Express, doesn't see the similarity
On his weekly radio spot, the mayor suggested protests will take jobs from city workers
Mayor Bloomberg's girlfriend sits on the board of the company that owns the park
Police don't always differentiate between them and the protesters
Cartoonist Steve Breen on the view of the protest from above
28 arrested in the largest Occupy Wall Street gathering to date
Anger at Obama is "inexplicable," Treasury secretary says
John Zuccotti is an executive at the real estate company that owns the park
Jesse LaGreca, one of our budding stars of Occupy Wall Street, has a wish-list for his broadcast interview
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