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How Right-Wing Smears Against Occupy Exploit Victims of Rape in the Movement

Sarah Seltzer, AlterNet. February 26, 2012.

Right-wingers are using sexual assault at Occupy to justify smears and attacks. Here are the facts.

How Zuccotti Park Became Zuccotti Prison: Creeping American Police State

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com. November 28, 2011.

America may not be a traditional police state (yet), but it is an increasingly militarized policed state in which rights are regularly tossed out the window.

With America on the Eve of Destruction, OWS Rides to the Rescue

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com. November 22, 2011.

What would American politicians and pundits say if Chinese or Iranian police raided a peaceful opposition encampment and trashed their library?

NYPD Snoop Declares Zuccotti Park A “Soft Target” for Terrorists: Really?

Nick Turse, AlterNet. November 21, 2011.

Plainclothes cop says the NYPD response to OWS is meant to stop the next 9/11, but a newly alleged terror plot suggests the police may have put protesters at increased risk.

The Other Occupation: How Subprime Crooks Occupied America And Prepared the Way for Occupy Wall Street

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com. November 21, 2011.

Before anyone decided to Occupy Wall Street, another occupation was already underway.

'Go. Leave. You Can't Be Here': What Happened When I Tried to Investigate the Connection Between the NYPD and Brookfield Properties, Zuccotti's Owners

Nick Turse, AlterNet. November 13, 2011.

Why did a police officer declare my reporting "illegal" just days before the pre-dawn raid on the OWS encampment?

Around the World In Five Revolutions: One Reporter's Journey Through the Year's Protests In the Middle East, London, Athens, New York and Toronto

Jesse Rosenfeld, AlterNet. November 9, 2011.

A reporter talks to protesters around the world, from the Arab Spring to the New York Fall.

What Happened When I Tried to Get Some Answers About the Creepy NYPD Watchtower Monitoring OWS

Nick Turse, AlterNet. November 6, 2011.

There’s a metal monster looming over Liberty Square, but don’t ask questions about it or else.

Will Drug Use at Occupy Wall Street Become the Pretext for Eviction?

Jed Bickman, The Fix. October 31, 2011.

In Zuccotti Park, occupiers do their best to handle drug use on their own terms, but it may stretch beyond their resources and give police an excuse to intervene.

Occupy Wall Street Doctors: MDs for Social Justice Join Protest In Liberty Square

Erika Eichelberger, AlterNet. October 27, 2011.

"Health care is a human right," say progressive doctors fighting for social change.

Cops Blame Occupy Wall Street for Surge in Shootings But City Wastes Money Policing Nonviolent Protesters

Nick Turse, AlterNet. October 27, 2011.

NYPD floods Wall Street with cops to pen in protesters, then blames Occupy Wall Street for diverting resources as gun violence spikes across the city.

Occupy Wall Street Protester, Arrested and Jailed for 30 Hours, Tells Her Story for the First Time

Barbara Schneider Reilly, AlterNet. October 26, 2011.

An AlterNet exclusive: Manhandled, arrested, cuffed, searched, and locked away in the Tombs, this is her uncensored story, in her own words.

New York Becoming a Police State? Occupy Wall Street Meets the "Ring of Steel" at Liberty Square

Nick Turse, AlterNet. October 25, 2011.

NYPD's metal barricades have militarized the peaceable occupation at Liberty Square and contributed to the creeping homeland security state ethos.

A South African Take on the Occupy Wall Street Movement

Richard Pithouse, South African Civil Society Information Service . October 22, 2011.

What links Tahrir Square to Liberty Plaza, the protests in Athens and Madrid and the movements in Port-au-Prince, La Plaz, Caracas and Durban, is a concern with democracy.

Tarps, Not Spirits, Sag as Storm Soaks Liberty Square

Nick Turse, AlterNet. October 19, 2011.

Occupy Wall Street defies weather, feeds the masses -- even “Wall Street capitalists" -- as storm buffets the Big Apple.

Occupy World Street: Summer Reads for an Arab Spring and Wall Street Fall

Pepe Escobar, Asia Times. October 18, 2011.

"Kick-ass" manuals for the 99% from Cairo's Tahrir Square to Madrid's Puerta del Sol to New York's Liberty Plaza.

Occupy Wall Street: 992 Arrested at Price Tag of More Than $3.4 Million

Nick Turse, AlterNet. October 18, 2011.

Occupy Wall Street arrests approach 1,000, while police rake in millions in overtime.

Wall Street’s Second Occupation: The Rise of the NYPD's Homeland Security State

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com. October 17, 2011.

Are drones above New York City next as the police militarize Lower Manhattan?

Occupy Wall Street Wins Converts, Flummoxes Cops on Global Day of Protest

Nick Turse, AlterNet. October 15, 2011.

The flat-foots were caught flatfooted as Occupy Wall Street marchers took to the streets of New York City.

Occupy Wall Street: People Power vs. the Police State

Nick Turse, AlterNet. October 13, 2011.

The NYPD has erected a ring of steel around Liberty Plaza, but Occupy Wall Street vows to resist.

Occupy Wall Street Trades in 'The Whole World is Watching' for Watching the Whole World

Nick Turse, AlterNet. October 7, 2011.

Occupy Wall Street protesters don’t need old failed ideas, advice from columnists or Barack Obama: they’ve got Tunisia, Egypt and Syria.