"Officials Cast Wide Net in Monitoring Occupy Protests." I'm hoping we can strike a balance on parameters because this could be a long term stay. A police lieutenant instructed reporters not to take pictures.

The officer at right has been identified as Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, who appeared to have pepper-sprayed several peaceful protesters in a number of videos found on YouTube.


Nearly 80 people were arrested last weekend in a series of incidents with the New York police as the protesters attempted to march uptown. Reuters/Brendan McDermid

Eventually both factions came together.

Original Demonstrators protesting corporate greed march from nearby Zucotti park to Wall Street amid heavy police presence, on September 20, 2011, in New York City.Participants in the Occupy Wall Street protest set up laptop computers in New York's financial district, on September 20, 2011. Veteran protesters said the force used by police was the most violent they had witnessed and a Guardian reporter witnessed a protester being slammed into a glass door by a police officer.On September 17, 2012, protesters returned to Zuccotti Park to mark the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the occupation.

These criticism include a lack of clear goals, false claim as the 99%, a lack of measurable change, trouble conveying its message, a failure to continue its support base, pursuing the wrong audience, and accusations of The Occupy Movement has been criticized for not having a set of clear demands that could be used to prompt formal policy change. The Canadian anti-consumerist and pro-environment group/magazine Adbusters initiated the call for a protest.

Protesters then turned their focus to occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, foreclosed homes, and college and university campuses.
Original Police officers erected barricades as people protesting the economic system flooded financial district streets and sidewalks while office workers headed to work on September 19, 2011 in New York City.New York City police officers use a flexible orange net to block and pen in Occupy Wall Street demonstrators and some curious onlookers as well. Original Protesters with Occupy Wall Street march up Wall Street towards the New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan, on Monday, September 26, 2011, in New York.In the midst of protests, New York City police officers stand near barricades surrounding "Charging Bull", the 7,100 lb bronze sculpture that symbolizes Wall Street and New York's financial district.



Most are now camped out in Zucotti Park, near Wall Street. "Shortly after midnight on November 15, 2011, the New York City Police Department gave protesters notice from the park's owner (Brookfield Office Properties) to leave Zuccotti Park due to its purportedly unsanitary and hazardous conditions. Original Philosopher Cornel West (center) stops to talk to demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street campaign in Zucotti Park near the financial district of New York, on September 29, 2011.A protester holds up a sign in Zuccotti Park, in New York City, on September 28 2011. The demonstrations are largely rallies against the influence of corporate money in politics, but participants also say they are upset about what they see as corporate greed, and, financial and social inequality.