Egyptian protesters march on the U.S. embassy in Cairo in solidarity with Occupy Oakland. (
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asking him not to evict Occupy Providence from their current camp site. Yesterday, Occupy Providence was given a 72-hour eviction notice.
In other Occupy Wall Street news:
- Tents returned to the main camp site for Occupy Oakland last night, three days after they were removed by riot police.
- Local unions will not participate in a general strike proposed by Occupy Oakland. Not surprising. While this should have been obvious to a leaderless, consensus-driven movement that prides itself on direct democracy, it is necessary to ask workers if they want to strike before just declaring one.
- A journalist at WNYC radio was fired for participating in the Occupy protests. Her bosses spotted her at the protests because a picture of her holding a wonky protest sign, which you can see on the right, went viral.
- Police seized all electrical generators from the main Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park. However, Occupy Wall Street is not short on either funds or supporters, so the generators were quickly replaced.
- Occupy Wall Street had a festive delivery of 6,000 letters to the 1% at the headquarters of five major banks today. Pictures from the event can be viewed here. Paper planes were involved:
- Occupy San Diego was forcibly evicted from their main camp site last night by riot police. There were 44 arrests.
- Occupy Atlanta, which was evicted from its main encampment three nights ago, has begun a series of one-night occupations, choosing a different site every night:
- The total count of arrests of Occupy protesters has now reached 2,750.
- Two Occupy protesters in Pennsylvania managed to get inside one of Senator Pat Toomey's district offices in confront him about President Obama's jobs bill. They were escorted out by police.
- Conservative talk radio hosts went to Occupy Los Angeles to poke the protesters with a metaphorical stick. They got poked back.
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