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(Reuters) - Occupy Wall Street protesters smashed windows in Seattle, were chased through New York streets by police on scooters, and clashed with officers in Oakland on Tuesday in May Day demonstrations intended to revive their movement against economic injustice.

While many events involving thousands of protesters were peaceful or even festive and few injuries were reported, dozens of people were arrested at rallies across the country, including more than 30 in New York during a series of skirmishes throughout the day.

In Oakland, police in riot gear fired tear gas and flash-bang grenades to disperse protesters who they said threw objects at officers and struck them with corrugated metal shields. City officials said marchers also vandalized two banks, a police van and a news vehicle. Nine were arrested.

"I was standing on the outside and the cops came in, snatched two people in the crowd, beat them and put them in the paddy wagon," Occupy Oakland organizer Caitlin Manning said.

Much of the violence and vandalism was attributed to black-clad anarchist elements within the Occupy movement who have been involved in previous confrontations with police, marring what began as a peaceful anti-Wall Street protest movement.

But the clashes they helped spark last year had also served to inject new life into the protests as demonstrators took up the issue of police brutality following running clashes in Oakland and pepper spray incidents elsewhere in the country.

In downtown Seattle, protesters carrying black flags on sticks shattered the windows of several stores including a Nike Town outlet and an HSBC bank before police moved them out of the area. Others smashed windows at a Seattle federal building, and several were taken into custody.

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ORIGINAL: subrob1967
Thousands out of a population of 300 MILLION... I guess that makes you the .000001%

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Five people, claiming to be anarchists, have been arrested in Cleveland for trying to blow up a four-lane bridge across the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

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The suspects' initial plot involved the use of smoke grenades to distract law enforcement in order to topple signs of financial institution on high rise buildings in downtown Cleveland, according to the federal complaint.

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ORIGINAL: servantforuse

I thought they were going to shut down New York city ?/

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ORIGINAL: MasterSlaveLA

 
OWS are scum...

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ORIGINAL: Mupainurpleasure
The intial protests were about economic injustice. they talked about the massive wall st bailouts and the instant return to mega bonuses finaced by goverment highlighted agains millions of folks loosing their homes.

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They talked about the danger we face when out society like today is one of intensely concentrated wealth and the accelaration of income inequality. if anyone thinks the top earners averaging 8 percent increases in earning a yr while seeing tax rates slashed and the low and middle earners seeimg negative income growth when allowing for increased medical insurance while making it harder to get a college degree and further slashing of the safety net is sustainable. I'd have to ask why? Why is concentrated wealth and a shrinking middle class, shrinking access to hugher education anything but a toxin to a demoratic consumer economy?pay raise top 1% last 30 yrs 275% bototm 20 percent 18%....unsustainableThe irony is it isnt immigrantds making us look like a latin american country it's wealth concentration Now, with ACitizens United that money equals speech and the 1 percent have 35 percent of it Gilded age campaign finance and wealth concentration will give us gildedage goverment and social unrest eventually When people cant move between classes, when born poormeans die poor and born rich doe rich when the rich literally are getting much richer and the poor poorer it's a time bomb. Thast movement lost it's way but the reeason it rose is unaddressed and a threat to long term stability as teedy Roosvelt reconized when he started the progressive era

• A Conservative interpretation of the US Constitution
  
• Personal Responsibility
  
• Help for the truly needy
  
• Limited Government
  
• Consumption Tax (non-profit charities and food exempt)
  

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ORIGINAL: YSG

A: Tell me what IS socialism

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B: How it relates in any fashion to Occupy Wall St.

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The media wont be interested until there is violence.
Lots of stuff going on around here, and Im not posting it here simply because of the posters whose heads explode when faced with OWS news..Im all about saving them from themselves...Im such a giver!!!!!