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Brooklyn Bridge Arrests

Compañeros of the Word: Toward a Literacy of Rebellion

Greg Ruggiero | Posted 04.04.2013 | Politics
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Greg Ruggiero

As of the time of this writing, authorities have arrested more than 7,730 people at events and actions organized by Occupy movement. I was among the 700 people subjected to a mass arrest on the Brooklyn Bridge on October 1, 2011.

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October 1, 2011: The Day the Future Crossed a Bridge

Will Bunch | Posted 12.25.2011 | Books
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Will Bunch

Here's what the elites don't get. The Occupy protests aren't even about a political demand or agenda in a conventional inside-the-Beltway sense. The occupation itself is the message.

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A Tree Grows in Wall Street

David Freid | Posted 12.05.2011 | Los Angeles
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David Freid

Will LA have a Brooklyn Bridge? The people of NY are occupying under more challenging conditions than we of sunny SoCal. And there's rain on the horizon. I don't mean that metaphorically; there is literally rain in the forecast.

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Matt Sledge

Did NYPD Trick Protesters Into Getting Arrested? No.

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 12.03.2011 | New York
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In the wake of Saturday's 744 arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge, some on the internet claimed that those who entered the span's main roadway were fooled ...

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Jason Cherkis

'It Was Pandemonium': One Eyewitness Account Of The Mass Arrests

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 12.01.2011 | Business
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Joshua Stephens, 33, had joined the protest march and had ended up on the Brooklyn Bridge. He managed to avoid being one of the 500 or so penned in by...

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