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Occupy D.C. demonstrators receive a Thanksgiving meal from volunteers at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington.  (Saul Loeb / AFP/Getty Images)
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“People’s Library” books fill a table at a news conference given by representatives of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York. The books were among those carted away by sanitation workers on Nov. 15 when police raided and dismantled the Occupy Wall Street encampment in New York City. Activists want the city to reimburse them for over 2,000 missing books as well as those damaged when the camp was taken down.  (David Caruso / Associated Press)
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A painter paints an interpretation of the anti-corporate protest tent camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral, in central London.  (Lefteris Pitarakis / Associated Press)
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A performance artist is covered in fake blood during an anti-corporate protest performance at Occupy London.  (Lefteris Pitarakis / Associated Press)
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Occupy London protesters lift their hands to mark the passing of a deadline for them to vacate the area.  (Andy Rain / EPA)
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Police hold a demonstrator at Occupy Oakland early Monday as they moved to clear out the weeks-old encampment.  (Paul Sakuma / Associated Press)
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Police form a line at the Occupy Oakland protest site as a police helicopter flies overhead.  (Paul Sakuma / Associated Press)
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Police escort a demonstrator taken into custody at Occupy Oakland.  (Paul Sakuma / Associated Press)
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Police stand in position as authorities prepared to clear out the Occupy Oakland encampment.  (Paul Sakuma / Associated Press)
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Police take down a shelter at Occupy Oakland protest site.  (Paul Sakuma / Associated Press)
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Hundreds of protesters associated with Bank Transfer Day face off with police officers guarding a Bank of America branch at the corner of 1st and Spring streets in downtown Los Angeles. Protesters were advised to take their money out of big banks and invest in smaller banks or credit unions instead.

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Occupy Oakland protesters claim a vacant building during a march downtown. Thousands of anti-Wall Street protesters took to Oakland’s streets as part of a daylong series of events, billed as a general strike, aimed at asserting the movement’s strength and shutting down commerce.  (Noah Berger / Associated Press)
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A demonstrator uses a video camera as he stands in a cloud of tear gas fired by police at the Occupy Oakland demonstration. Police in riot gear clashed with protesters in Oakland in the early morning hours on Thursday, firing tear gas to disperse demonstrators lingering in the streets after a day of mostly peaceful rallies.  (Stephen Lam / Reuters)
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Sheriff’s deputies advance on Occupy Oakland protesters early Thursday morning. Following a mainly peaceful daylong protest by thousands of anti-Wall Street demonstrators, several hundred rallied through the night with some painting graffiti, breaking windows and setting file to garbage cans.  (Noah Berger / Associated Press)
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Occupy Oakland protesters attempt to put out a trash fire.  (Kimihiro Hoshino / AFP / Getty Images)
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An anarchy symbol is painted on the entrance to an office building at 1333 Broadway in Oakland following an Occupy Oakland protest early Thursday morning.  (Noah Berger / Associated Press)
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Demonstrators in the street flash peace signs at the Occupy Oakland demonstration.  (Stephen Lam / Reuters)
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Protesters help an injured Occupy Oakland demonstrator after a police-fired projectile struck his leg.  (Noah Berger / Associated Press)
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Occupy Oakland protestors stand atop a big rig at the Port of Oakland on Wednesday. Thousands took to Oakland’s streets as part of a daylong general strike.  (Noah Berger / Associated Press)
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Occupy Oakland protester Alfredo Coronado waves a flag atop a big rig at the Port of Oakland on Wednesday.  (Noah Berger / Associated Press)
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Thousands of Occupy Oakland protesters march from downtown Oakland to the city’s port Wednesday.  (Jeff Chiu / Associated Press)
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Occupy Oakland protesters stand atop a railroad scaffold at the Port of Oakland on Wednesday.  (Noah Berger / Associated Press)
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A small group of Occupy Oakland protesters smash windows at a Wells Fargo bank branch.

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A broken window at a Chase bank in Oakland. Protesters teamed up with labor unions to picket banks, take over foreclosed homes and vacant buildings, and disrupt operations at the nation’s fifth-busiest port.  (Paul Sakuma / Associated Press)
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Occupy Oakland protesters rally in front of the State of California building. Oakland’s citywide general strike, a hastily planned and ambitious action, seeks to shut down the Port of Oakland.   (Ben Margot / Associated Press)
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Demonstrators clash in Oakland.  (Eric Thayer / Getty Images)
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An Occupy Oakland protester who gave her name as Nancy, right, scales a pole while hanging a banner.   (Noah Berger / Associated Press)
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A demonstrator with the Occupy movement marches Tuesday in Oakland. The group called for a general strike today, and planned to march on the city’s port later in the day.  (Eric Thayerr / Getty Images)
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Occupy Las Vegas members participate in a “zombie walk” on the Las Vegas Strip to protest what they consider greed and corruption among banking and business leaders in solidarity with other Occupy movements around the world.  (Ethan Miller / Getty Images)
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An Occupy Wall Street protester braves a snowstorm in Zuccotti Park in New York.   (John Minchillo / Associated Press)
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The first snowstorm of the season is a test of the protesters’ resolve as they huddle in tents and prepare for winter with donated food and clothing.  (John Minchillo / Associated Press)
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An Occupy Wall Street supporter braves the elements standing in protest while the season’s first snow falls over Zuccotti Park.   (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP/Getty Images)
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An Occupy Wall Street protester holds a sign depicting President Obama laughing with various prominent politicians.   (John Minchillo / Associated Press)
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Protesters of the Occupy Berlin movement sit in front of the Reichstag, where the German parliament meets.  (Markus Schreiber / Associated Press)
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Philosopher Cornel West, right, and commentator Tavis Smiley embrace as they rally Occupy L.A. demonstrators on the steps of City Hall.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
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Filmmaker Michael Moore addresses several hundred Occupy Oakland protesters outside City Hall. Moore urged the protesters to continue demonstrating.   (Noah Berger / Associated Press)
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Physicians, nurses, community groups and supporters of healthcare marched to call for an end of corporate greed in the health insurance industry.  (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP/Getty Images)
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Protesters yell as police move in to arrest those refusing to leave after Mayor Kasim Reed revoked his executive order allowing the Occupy Atlanta to camp out in Woodruff Park.  (David Goldman / Associated Press)
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Participants in the Occupy Atlanta protest movement take over Peachtree Street near Woodruff Park. About 40 to 50 people who refused to leave the park were arrested after several warnings. The group, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement, had been in Woodruff Park for about three weeks.   (Erik S. Lesser / EPA)
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Atlanta police carry away one of dozens of Occupy Atlanta protesters arrested at Woodruff Park early Wednesday morning. Before police moved in, protesters were warned a couple of times around midnight to vacate the park or risk arrest.  (Curtis Compton / Atlanta Journal Constitution)
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Occupy Atlanta protesters are arrested at Woodruff Park. About 40 to 50 people who refused to leave the park were arrested after several warnings.  (Erik S. Lesser / EPA)
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A protester holds a sign during an Occupy demonstration in San Francisco. Hundreds of San Francisco Bay Area clergy marched through downtown San Francisco in solidarity with the Occupy San Francisco protesters.  (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)
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Occupy Oakland protesters huddle together after police used tear gas to disperse a large crowd. Many demonstrators were arrested.  (Darryl Bush / Associated Press)
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Occupy Oakland protesters help a man injured after police used tear gas to disperse protesters Tuesday night in downtown Oakland, Calif.  (Darryl Bush / Associated Press)
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Occupy Oakland protesters flee after police deploy tear gas to disperse a large crowd that gathered at 14th Street and Broadway in Oakland.  (Darryl Bush / Associated Press)
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Occupy Oakland protesters yell at police stopping their path.  (Darryl Bush / Associated Press)
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Oakland police officers in riot gear line Frank H. Ogawa plaza near City Hall.  (Ben Margot / Associated Press)
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An Oakland police officer pets a cat at an Occupy Oakland site.  (Ben Margot / Associated Press)
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An American flag is left discarded as a remnant of the Occupy Oakland protests.  (Ben Margot / Associated Press)
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The possessions of Occupy Oakland protesters are seen in Frank H. Ogawa plaza near City Hall.  (Ben Margot / Associated Press)
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Police officers in Oakland, Calif., sift through possessions left by Occupy Oakland protesters near City Hall.  (Ben Margot / Associated Press)
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“Occupy Wall Street” protesters marched to Times Square, where hundreds of police were in place to contain them behind barricades. Mounted police were also brought in for crowd control.   (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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“Occupy Wall Street” protesters in Times Square.   (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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Police stand guard in Times Square, where “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrators gathered.   (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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Police on horseback were brought in to help with crowd control in Times Square.   (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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“My pension is not the problem” reads one of the signs in the “Occupy Wall Street” protest in Times Square.   (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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“Occupy Wall Street” participants gather in Washington Square.   (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP/Getty Images)
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A person holds a sign critical of Bank of America during a demonstration on the National Mall. Activists gathered to celebrate the American civil rights movement and to rally for equal employment.   (Brendan Smialowski / Getty Images)
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Protesters chant in front of a downtown Seattle hotel to protest the appearance of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. About 50 “Occupy Seattle” protesters made the walk of a few blocks from Westlake Park to the hotel where the former Massachusetts governor was holding a private fundraiser.   (Elaine Thompson / Associated Press)
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A masked protester with a placard during a demonstration in Amsterdam. Tens of thousands gathered in cities across the world Saturday in protest marches modeled on New York’s “Occupy Wall Street” movement and sit-ins that began months ago in Spain.   (Marcel Antonisse / EPA)
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Protesters march in Brussels. The protest in the Belgian capital was part of “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrations against capitalism and austerity measures that went global Saturday.   (Yves Logghe / Associated Press)
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A protester looks up as a banner is raised during a march in Brussels. The banner reads: ‘We are 99 percent, We will not pay their debt’.  (Yves Logghe / Associated Press)
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People take part in an “Occupy” protest in Amsterdam, venting their anger against alleged corporate greed and government cutbacks. Protesters launched demonstrations around the globe, targettng 951 cities in 82 countries.  (Marcel Antonisse / AFP/Getty Images)
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A protester tries to open the door as security members and employers block the main entrance of a Zara clothing store during a demonstration in Barcelona.  (Emilio Morenatti / Associated Press)
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Julian Assange, the editor in chief of Wikileaks, addresses protesters at the “Occupy London” Stock Exchange demonstration.   (Elizabeth Dalziel / Associated Press)
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Demonstrators mass outside St. Paul’s Cathedral in London during a protest against the global financial system. A number of campaign organizations, including the direct-action group UK Uncut, say they will support an occupation of the heart of the capital’s financial center as part of a “global movement for real democracy” to highlight social and economic injustice.  (Max Nash / EPA)
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Cash machines are covered in posters outside St. Paul’s Cathedral during the “Occupy London” protest.  (Dan Kitwood / Getty Images)
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A protester scuffles with police during the “Occupy London” protest outside St. Paul’s Cathedral. Thousands of people are taking to the streets in cities across the world, inspired by the “Occupy Wall Street” protests in the United States.   (Dan Kitwood / Getty Images)
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A demonstrator dressed as Jesus Christ takes part in the “Occupy London” Stock Exchange demonstration. The “Occupy Wall Street” protests that began in Canada and spread to cities across the U.S. moved Saturday to Asia and Europe, linking up with anti-austerity demonstrations that have raged across the debt-ridden continent for months.   (Elizabeth Dalziel / Associated Press)
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Italian police fired tear gas and water cannons as protesters in Rome turned a demonstration against corporate greed into a riot, smashing shop and bank windows, torching cars and hurling bottles.  (Gregorio Borgia / Associated Press)
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Protesters are pictured in tear gas during a demonstration in Rome. Tens of thousands took to the streets of the Italian capital for a march that turned violent, and equal numbers rallied in Madrid and Lisbon.  (Filippo Monteforte / AFP/Getty Images)
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A hand points to protesters marching through the smoke of flares during a demonstration in downtown Rome, which was placed under security lock-down.  (Mario Laporta / AFP/Getty Images)
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Protesters wave their hands in Puerta del Sol square in Madrid. People also took to the streets in Sydney, Hong Kong and Tokyo in the opening hours of the unprecedented global uprising.  (Dominique Faget / AFP/Getty Images)
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Demonstrators in front of the Portuguese Parliament in Lisbon hold signs and shout slogans at a rally inspired by the “Indignados” protest movement.  (Joao Relvas / EPA)
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A man holds up a sign as he joins fellow demonstrators marching near Toronto’s financial district.  (Chris Young / Associated Press/The Canadian Press)
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Syrians living in Greece gesture as they protest in central Athens’ Syntagma Square against the situation in their country.  (Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP/Getty Images)
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A protester wears self-made glasses with a dollar and a euro symbol at a demonstration against the global financial system in Munich.  (Frank Leonhardt / EPA)
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Swedish and international protesters hold banners as they take part in the “Occupy Stockholm” demonstration at Sergels torg Square.  (Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP/Getty Images)
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Protesters take part in a demonstration against the banking industry in Zurich. Several hundred demonstrators gathered in the city’s Paradeplatz, where both Swiss giant banking UBS and Credit Suisse are located.   (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP/Getty Images)
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Occupy Wall Street protesters march up Broadway in New York City with brooms in hand as part of a symbolic effort to “clean up” Wall Street.   (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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Occupy Wall Street protesters sweep the sidewalk in the financial district of New York City as part of a symbolic effort to clean up Wall Street.   (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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Businessmen wait to cross Broadway, filled with protesters and police on Friday morning as Occupy Wall Street protesters walk the streets of the financial district.   (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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Police maintain order as Occupy Wall Street protesters continue to demonstrate in the financial district as part of an effort to clean up Wall Street.   (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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Occupy Wall Street protesters rally as they sweep the sidewalk in the financial district as part of an effort to clean up Wall Street.   (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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New York police officers stand by as Occupy Wall Street protesters walk the sidewalks in the financial district as part of an effort to clean up Wall Street.   (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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NYPD officers stand guard at the New York Stock Exchange as protesters march in the area.   (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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New York police arrested at least four people Wednesday as the Wall Street protest continued.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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A passer-by takes in the Wall Street occupation in Liberty Square on Wednesday morning.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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Elizabeth Smith, right, walks through a tent encampment in Woodruff Park in Atlanta on Tuesday.  (David Goldman / Associated Press)
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Melissa Dramstad, right, speaks with Atlanta police Officer Keech Boyd at a tent encampment in Woodruff Park on Tuesday.  (David Goldman / Associated Press)
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A protester looks on as Capitol police walk past in the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.   (Jewel Samad / AFP/Getty Images)
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A protester shouts slogans outside the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.   (Jewel Samad / AFP/Getty Images)
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Rally signs are piled up in an encampment site for a group calling itself Occupy Maine in Monument Square in Portland, Maine.  (Pat Wellenbach / Associated Press)
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Rally signs are piled up in an encampment site for a group calling itself Occupy Maine in Monument Square in Portland, Maine.  (Pat Wellenbach / Associated Press)
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Savage, a 4-month-old pit bull, is kept back by protester David Huppert among the tents occupying Civic Center Plaza on Tuesday in San Diego.  (Lenny Ignelzi / Associated Press)
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Protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement demonstrate before walking up Fifth Avenue to rally in front of the residence of NewsCorp Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch in New York.   (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)
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Protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement walk by doormen along Fifth Avenue on their way to the residence of NewsCorp Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch in New York City.   (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)
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Demonstrators with “Occupy Boston” march toward the police station where fellow demonstrators were brought after police arrested people sleeping in an expansion of the Occupy Boston tent village in Boston, in the early morning hours Tuesday.  (Josh Reynolds / Associated Press)
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Demonstrators hold a vigil on two overpasses above the 101 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles on the eve of the U.S. Senate‘s vote on the American Jobs Act, which organizers with Good Jobs L.A. said would save or create 125,400 jobs in California.   (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
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Luciano Guadalupe holds a sign and a candle at the vigil. Corporate greed was a target of the protesters.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
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Cesar Luis, 5, joins his parents in the candlelight demonstration.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
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Demonstrators with the group Good Jobs L.A. fill one of the downtown overpasses.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
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A motorist on the 101 Freeway gestures in solidarity with demonstrators on an overpass above.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
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As nighttime descends, demonstrators holding signs and candles join in a chant for “good jobs!”  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
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Some staged a sit-in while hundreds of others joined in a demonstration at 7th and Figueroa in downtown L.A. called “Refund California,” protesting Wall Street and big banks.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
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“You’ve been served!” screamed protesters after taping a “Final Notice Past Due” sign on an ATM at a Chase Bank branch. The demonstrators began the rally at California Plaza and proceeded to march through downtown Los Angeles.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
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Demonstrators march through California Plaza carrying a likeness of Wells Fargo Chairman John Stumpf.

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The “Refund California” protesters make their way down Figueroa Street.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
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Holding a “check” from Wall Street made out to the “People of California” in the amount of $673 billion, 11 protesters stage a sit-in in a Bank of America lobby in downtown L.A.   (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
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One of the 11 protesters in the Bank of America sit-in is arrested.   (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
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Los Angeles City Councilman Bill Rosendahl meets with some of the protesters at the Occupy Los Angeles campsite outside Los Angeles City Hall on Tuesday.   (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)
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Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti visits the Occupy Los Angeles campsite outside Los Angeles City Hall on Tuesday.   (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)
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Shayne Eastin, 27, of Los Angeles protests at Los Angeles City Hall on Sunday, part of Occupy Los Angeles. Eastin is trying to find work. “I am here to protest the top 1% of the population who pay little taxes while others are out of work,” she said. Several hundred protesters set up camp in front of City Hall this weekend.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
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Tony Rodriguez, 25, of East Los Angeles smokes in his tent on the Los Angeles City Hall lawn Sunday. He arrived Saturday night and is part of Occupy Los Angeles, which is inspired by the anti-corporate Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in New York. Several hundred protesters set up camp in front of Los Angeles City Hall over thy weekend, saying they are there to stay.  (Gary Friedman/Los Angeles Times)
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Dancers from South Gate High School, including Rafael Campoy, perform on a float during the Trespass Parade in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday. The parade was part of Pacific Standard Time, a collaboration of Southern California cultural institutions celebrating the birth of the Los Angeles art scene.  (Christina House / For The Times)
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Occupy Wall Street began Day 13 with a march through the streets of Lower Manhattan around the time the opening bell rings at the stock exchange.   (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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Sometimes executives drop in on lunch breaks to talk politics and economics with the protesters, but often commuters barely take notice of them.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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Protest posters for a variety of causes reflect the diverse goals of the group’s members.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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New York police make sure marchers stay on the sidewalks. Run-ins with the NYPD have given some traction to the ongoing protest.   (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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Erika Ries of Philadelphia gets a new haircut between demonstrations after seven days of living in Manhattan‘s Liberty Square.   (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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Some of those taking part in the occupation catch up on sleep as others march through the streets of Lower Manhattan.   (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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A protester takes shelter under a plastic tarp. Rain was forecast for the coming days.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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Protesters gather for a planning meeting. Their numbers vary as people come and go. Some who live nearby drop by for a few hours at a time; others stay around the clock.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
By Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times
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Reporting from New York — 

Several Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested Friday after they embarked on an impromptu victory march through Lower Manhattan following the cancellation of a plan to clean the privately owned park where they have been camped for 28 days.

Protesters had seen the planned cleanup as a ploy to evict them from Zuccotti Park, even though park owner Brookfield Office Properties said it wanted to move people only temporarily so it could scrub the plaza. But it also said that when protesters returned, they no longer could have tents, sleeping bags or tarps.

As protesters’ numbers swelled Thursday night, Brookfield was flooded with phone calls from local elected officials who support the protest, warning it to cancel the cleaning, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said in a radio interview.

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After the change in plans became known, about 250 chanting, sign-waving protesters marched peacefully to City Hall. Police spokesman Paul Browne said an estimated eight to 10 people were arrested at a second, impromptu march deeper into the financial district.

Zuccotti Park was known as Liberty Park until 2006, when it was renamed in honor of John Zuccotti, co-chairman of Brookfield Office Properties and a former New York deputy mayor and planning director. Brookfield is a publicly traded commercial real estate firm based in New York. It owns or manages properties in the United States, Canada and Australia, including Bank of America Plaza and the 601 Figueroa building in downtown Los Angeles.

Bloomberg, whose longtime companion, Diana Taylor, is on Brookfield’s board of directors, has repeatedly said he supported the right of everyone to protest, but also has made it clear he’s getting impatient.

“The protesters in all fairness have been very peaceful there, but it is a very big crowd and it’s one point of view,” Bloomberg told WOR radio. “The longer this goes on, the worse it is for our economy. You just go down and talk to the stores in the neighborhood.... Most say this really is hurting them.”

Meanwhile, nearly two dozen people were arrested and tents were removed from the Occupy Denver protest, and protesters in Trenton, N.J., were ordered to remove tents from their encampment, local media reported.

Authorities in New York, London, Frankfurt, Athens and elsewhere braced for demonstrations Saturday, Reuters reported, with rallies planned in about 71 countries.

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tina.susman@latimes.com

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Tina Susman

Tina Susman, an Oakland native, is a former New York-based national correspondent who joined the Los Angeles Times as Baghdad bureau chief in January 2007. She got her start as a foreign correspondent with the Associated Press in South Africa, covering the end of apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela. Dubbed by past editors “the master of disaster,” she has also worked in west Africa and done stints in Europe, Asia and Haiti. She is thrilled to now be in a city with quirky features, non-stop news, and functioning phones and electricity. She left The Times in 2015.

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