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$5M Occupy LA Cost Estimate: Occupiers FIRE BACK

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 05.14.2012

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A new report saying that Occupy Los Angeles cost taxpayers $4.7 million -- almost double the estimate reported in February -- has reignited the Occupy...

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Occupy L.A. Meets Small Town Downtown Los Angeles on May Day

Brady Westwater | Posted 05.03.2012

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After an early morning with no emergency vehicle sirens or overhead helicopters, I realized I didn't know when or where the planned Occupy LA May Day demonstrations were taking place.

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How To Participate In The Coolest Aerial Art Project In Town

The Huffington Post | Lucy Blodgett | Posted 03.28.2012

Do you remember the epic block party at the end of the 1995 cult classic, "Empire Records"? Well, now it's our turn to "Damn The Man! Save The Emp...

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The Great Swindle: How to Stomach Knowing the Banks Are Stealing a Nation's Worth of Homes, One Home at a Time

Suzanne O'Keeffe | Posted 05.05.2012

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Even if you don't own a house or you're not staring down foreclosure at this minute, don't think you can skip safely past the graveyards of U-Hauls and lockboxes.

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Occupy Wall Street Regroups, Returns to Protest ALEC

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 03.01.2012

NEW YORK -- In cities around the country today, hundreds of Occupy protestors gathered for what the movement described in a release as its "largest co...

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The Marine vs. Freddie Mac: Winner Takes Home

HuffingtonPost.com | Gabriel Lerner | Posted 02.27.2012

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Almost a week after they were scheduled to be evicted forcibly from their home, the De Los Santos family is still living in the Riverside house they b...

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Occupy LA & Wells Fargo Sit Down To Talk Foreclosures

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 02.07.2012

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Occupy LA has gone from drum circles and tent cities to meetings with high-powered bank executives. Seven activists met with six Wells Fargo execu...

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Revolution Is a Process

Sam Slovick | Posted 04.07.2012

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The pressing question is what's next for the 99 percent movement? The answer is big mass protests in 2012 the likes of which the U.S. has never seen. ...

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The 99% on MLK

Sam Slovick | Posted 03.28.2012

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Forty-eight years after President Lyndon Baines Johnson handed the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. the pen he'd just used to sign the Civil Rights Act...

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Outliers of Occupy

Sam Slovick | Posted 03.13.2012

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Occupation is a tactic of the 99% movement. The end of the physical Occupation at City Hall in Los Angeles was the beginning of the next phase of the ...

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Occupy LA Costs $2.3 Million, Says City (PHOTOS)

AP | By NOAKI SCHWARTZ and MICHAEL R. BLOOD | Posted 12.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES -- A preliminary report released Friday by the city administrative officer estimates the nearly two-month Occupy LA encampment at City Hal...

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PHOTOS: The 11 Biggest News Stories Of 2011

HuffingtonPost.com | Kathleen Miles | Posted 12.23.2011

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Sometimes it seemed like our world was about to end in 2011. Riot squads and protestors faced off in the streets. Santa Ana winds tore the city apart....

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OCCUPY CALIFORNIA: UC Riverside Report Finds 150 Different Occupy Groups in CA

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 12.19.2011

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As the frontrunner for the American Dialect Society's 2011 Word of the Year, "Occupy" seems to be just about everywhere you look. And, from Occupy the...

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Occupy the Rose Parade Relays Its Plan

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 12.09.2011

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Pasadena is known around the world for its New Year's Day Rose Parade. About 51.9 million Americans watched the 2010 Rose Parade on television. It was...

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Cesar Chavez's Grandson Among Arrested Protestors

santamonica.patch.com | Posted 02.05.2012

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Arthur S. Rodrigeuz--grandson of labor leader Cesar Chavez and a Santa Monica College student--was among the nearly 300 Occupy L.A. protesters jailed ...

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Occupying on Deadline

David Freid | Posted 02.05.2012

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A phrase I keep hearing from friends, "they can't Occupy forever," is certainly worth some consideration. After all, people tend to get more done when they're on deadline.

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How the Occupy Wall Street Movement Can Create Real Change

Monique Ruffin | Posted 02.03.2012

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In the last couple of months the Occupy movement has successfully gained our attention, as protests have sprung up in many of the major cities across...

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Are Corporations People? LA Leads The Nation On The Issue

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 12.06.2011

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On Tuesday, Los Angeles could become the first city to officially endorse amending the United States Constitution to state that only human beings, not...

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Police Reportedly Went Undercover At Occupy LA Encampment Prior To Raid

AP/The Huffington Post | Associated Press | Posted 12.06.2011

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The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Los Angeles police used nearly a dozen undercover detectives to infiltrate the Occupy LA encampment before...

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You Can Arrest an Idea

Robert Scheer | Posted 01.31.2012

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The failure of the SEC or any other government agency to hold the banks accountable provides the essential justification for citizen action of the sort the Occupy movement has offered.

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LAPD RAID OCCUPY LA ENCAMPMENT, ARREST PROTESTERS

AP | CHRISTINA HOAG and KATHY MATHESON | Posted 01.29.2012

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LOS ANGELES — More than 1,400 police officers, some in riot gear, cleared the Occupy Los Angeles camp early Wednesday, driving protesters from a...

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Occupy LA Fears Police Raid is Imminent

The Huffington Post | Sasha Bronner | Posted 11.30.2011

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A storm is brewing at the Occupy LA encampment in downtown Los Angeles - and we are hearing about it all on Twitter. (CLICK HERE OR SCROLL DOWN FO...

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STILL OCCUPIED: LA Protesters Defy Eviction Notice

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 01.28.2012

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By CHRISTINA HOAG and GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) -- For now, Wall Street protesters camped out on the Los Angeles City Hall...

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WATCH: One Percent Supporter Doubts That 'Anyone Great' Ever Came Out Of The 99 Percent

The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 11.29.2011

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The man featured in the clip below, who claims to be a part of the 1 percent, seems to have written off the other 99 percent of society as less than e...

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Occupy L.A. May Branch Out To Occupy Beverly Hills, Skid Row

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 11.28.2011

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WASHINGTON -- After a tense all-nighter with the Los Angeles Police Department, Occupy L.A. activists and their tents outside City Hall have been give...

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