Author: Michael Wilner (Michael Wilner)

The Occupy Wall Street movement is preparing coordinated protests in major cities across the United States for Thursday. The UK’s Guardian reports Occupiers in New York have planned events in all five boroughs throughout the city, beginning with the disruption of the New York Stock Exchange’s opening bell on Wall Street, and culminating in a...

In sync with a global sweep by local police forces against Occupy movements, French Occupy, or Les Indignés, had their camp in La Défense raided last night by French authorities. Protesters captured the crackdown on video and described it as violent, RFI reports. Around 100 police moved on the camp, which is in a financial district on...

CBS News reports claims that a pregnant protester was pepper sprayed last night at an Anti-Wall Street protest that turned violent, as other reports and photos surface that Dorli Rainey, an 84-year old woman, was also hit. See the video here:  

Defying a ban on camping, protesting students and fellow anti-Wall Street activists have continued setting up tents Wednesday on the campus of University of California at Berkeley, and have been told by campus police they are risking arrest, The Washington Times reports. Thousands were rallying on the Berkeley campus as recently as Tuesday. Daniel Ellsberg, leaker...

Protesters participating in Occupy Toronto won an injunction temporarily protecting their St. James Park encampment from police action, Canada’s CBC News reports. Judge David Brown granted the temporary stay last night after eviction notices were handed out early Tuesday morning, hours after New York City police cleared Zuccotti Park, the main encampment of Occupy Wall...

After dismantling fifteen tents and arresting seven protesters at Occupy San Francisco last night, local police chief John Loftus told the main encampment in Justin Herman Plaza over loudspeaker that their encampment was illegal, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. No raid followed Loftus’ statements, but protesters are on alert, the report states. Occupy San Francisco...

Lawyers representing Occupy Boston are trying to preempt the type of eviction that emptied Zuccotti Park, seeking a court order of protection this morning of their main camp at Dewey Square, the Boston Globe reports. Protesters participating in Occupy Boston fear a raid similar to one that occurred on October 10, when 141 Bostonians were...

The City of London Corporation has given Occupy London a one-day warning to pack up and leave, or otherwise face eviction, the Associated Press reports. Notices were posted on tents, pitched outside St. Paul’s Cathedral, with a deadline of 1:00 p.m. EST on Thursday (6:00 p.m. local time). The eviction notice comes a day after...

Patch.com reports that OWS marchers in Brooklyn “will not skip a beat” after the NYPD evicted Zuccotti Park early Tuesday morning. “This is just getting started,” Michael O’Neil, Occupy Brooklyn activist, told Patch, saying protesters were further motivated “every time the police overreach and criminalize the 99 percent.” Read more on the Bed Stuy-based site here.