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Freezing Free Speech: Winter Tents Are “Contraband” for Occupy Boston
Occupy Boston is one of the largest and best established occupations of the 99 Percent movement, in the city known as the Cradle of Liberty for its role in …
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Egypt’s Civilian Government Submits Offer to Resign
Cairo - After three days of increasingly violent demonstrations, Egypt’s interim civilian government submitted its resignation to the country’s ruling military council on Monday, bowing to the demands of …
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SF State Students Stage Walkout in Solidarity With Occupy UC Movement
San Francisco - The UC Board of Regents was forced to cancel a meeting at UC San Francisco’s Mission Bay campus today after protesters planned to occupy the building …
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Officers Put on Leave After Pepper Spraying Protesters
The University of California, Davis, said on Sunday that two police officers had been placed on administrative leave after using pepper spray on seated protesters in a widely recorded …
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Lawmakers Concede Budget Talks Are Close to Failure
Washington - Conceding that talks on a grand budget deal are near failure, Congressional leaders on Sunday pointed fingers at each other as they tried to deflect blame for …
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Military Moves In as Violence Rages in Streets of Cairo for Second Day
Cairo - Egypt's interim military rulers battled a reinvigorated protest movement calling for its ouster Sunday, as thousands of demonstrators forced troops to retreat from Tahrir Square for a …
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City Dismisses 9 Cases of Occupy Sacramento Protesters
The Sacramento City Attorney’s office today dismissed nine misdemeanor cases of protesters arrested at the Occupy Sacramento encampment at Cesar Chavez Park – and pro bono lawyers said they …
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Occupy Nashville Infiltrates and Disrupts Rumsfeld Fundraiser
Former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) Thursday, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was in Nashville …
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Ex-Inspector Rejects IAEA Iran Bomb Test Chamber Claim
Washington - A former inspector for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repudiated its major new claim that Iran built an explosives chamber to test components of a …
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Group in US Hoped for Big Payday in Offer to Help Qaddafi
Libyan rebels transport the bodies of soldiers loyal to Moammar Gadhafi through the streets of Misrata, Libya, April 28, 2011. In April, as the rebels were making gains, a …