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October 12, 2011

6 Occupy Protesters Arrested in Senate Building; 21 Arrested in Chicago 
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Six supporters of the "Occupy" movement in Washington, D.C., were
arrested in the Senate’s Hart office building Tuesday for chanting
loudly and unfurling banners calling for the end of overseas wars and
for increased taxes on the rich. Blocks away from the Capitol,
demonstrators at Freedom Plaza said they've obtained permits to remain
for another four months.

Dr. Margaret Flowers: "We met with the Park Service and they offered us
a four-month extension on the permit, we brought that back to the
general assembly, people were very excited that we were offered that
amount of time and immediately started getting down to work on how to
create the infrastructure that we would like to see and hear."

In Chicago, 21 Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested for
trespassing in two separate incidents. According to local authorities,
16 people were taken into custody for protesting at the Hyatt Regency in
downtown Chicago where the annual conference of the Mortgage Bankers
Association was underway. Five more people — women ranging in ages
from 55 to 80 — were arrested for taking garbage from a foreclosed
home owned by Bank of America and dumping it at one of the bank’s
branches.



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