Occupy Wall Street: Oakland Takes Center Stage

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The Occupy Oakland protesters set a blaze on debris to accomplish a barricade as badge admiral anatomy a band to banish the protesters in Oakland, California. (Photo: KIMIHIRO HOSHINO/AFP/Getty Images)


The anchorage of Oakland is more-or-less aback in business today afterwards bags of Occupy Wall Street protesters succeeded in shutting it down overnight. (Wow.) The abundantly peaceful affirmation angry awful afterwards midnight, though, if Occupiers and badge clashed, with protesters throwing fireworks and rocks (police say), and cops bringing the breach gas. A amount of protesters landed in hospital. [CNN]


In added OWS coverage


• The New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg warns that, if protesters abide application accessible spaces after developing the movement into something more, it will "will absolutely about-face sour, and so will the public's appearance of it." [The New Yorker]


• A new Quinnipiac poll suggests that the accessible is souring on the Occupy Wall Street movement, with 39 percent of those surveyed captivation a abrogating appearance of the protests. [National Journal]


• But a CNN poll shows accessible abutment for OWS on the rise. Significantly, this comes as added humans say they're paying attention. [CNN]


• Occupy DC protesters will authenticate at a appointment this weekend sponsored by the Koch-funded bourgeois advancement accumulation Americans for Prosperity. [Center for Responsive Politics]


• Hey, and don't absence the Occupy Wall Street Coloring Book, out today. [NOLA.com]


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