The Occupy movement left its major sites—McPherson Square in D.C., Zuccotti Park in Manhattan, Dewey Square in Boston—filthy and disheveled. By contrast, the tea party protests famously left the Washington Mall and other locations cleaner than they found them, with members proudly performing cleanup duties. -Glenn Reynolds 
Across the country, the figures are growing. In New York City, overtime costs are $3.4 million. In Minneapolis, the sheriff’s department reports spending $200,000. And in Boston, the tally is $2 million and counting.
”God bless them,” Pelosi said, “for their spontaneity. It’s independent … it’s young, it’s spontaneous, and it’s focused. And it’s going to be effective.”
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About 200 Occupy Oakland activists held a march which turned into a roving vandalism spree through downtown. Billed as a protest against the war in Afghanistan, protesters smashed the windows of banks, businesses and BMW's along their route. Marchers also smashed glass doors at City Hall.
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While most Americans were celebrating the 4th of July Wednesday, the degenerate remains of Occupy Oakland held a "F*ck the 4th" march through downtown which featured vandalism, death threats and a flag burning. There were a total of 60 marchers in all, far less than the numbers who crowded the streets a year ago at the Occupy movement's height... According to Sgt. Roland Holmgren, one of the marchers painted "Kill Cops" on a door at police headquarters. Occupiers also vandalized a patrol car, breaking a window, and puncturing a tire.
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Kerry Cunneen, who has been arrested for squatting in another home in February, responded to KATU Thom Jensen’s question of where she and the others were headed next by saying, "We're just going to live together from now on – you and me, Thom." No one gave a straight answer about whether they were simply going to take over another distressed home or try to make traditional living arrangements. But inside the house, it was a disaster. Trash, sleeping bags and laundry were piled up everywhere. Walls were also knocked out or had holes in them to make room for sleeping spaces or storage.
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Mullins said more than 20 officers have been injured during the course of the Wall Street protests, now in their sixth week since kicking off Sept. 17. “Protesters are not immunized from civil liability merely because their victims are wearing the uniform of the New York City Police Department,” he said.
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Across the country, the figures are growing. In New York City, overtime costs are $3.4 million. In Minneapolis, the sheriff’s department reports spending $200,000. And in Boston, the tally is $2 million and counting.
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Portland Commissioner Nick Fish on Monday said it will cost taxpayers at least $19,000 to repair downtown Portland's Chapman and Lownsdale squares from the nearly two-week Occupy Portland demonstration. It's a figure he said will only continue to grow as Occupy Portland lingers.
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Portland police say they have spend $186,400 on overtime related to the Occupy Portland protests as of last Sunday. The overtime includes costs incurred during rallies and marches, along with a number of officers assigned to patrol the protest camp that was established after theinitial march to protest Wall Street on Oct. 6. Portland Parks and Recreation estimated the camps had caused $19,000 worth of damage to Chapman and Lownsdale squares as of several days ago. Hundreds of people have been camping in them for the past three weeks.
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Spray painted messages were found in 21 locations around Boston. This appears to be the work of anarchists associated with the Occupy Boston group.
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The cost of repairing the increasing damage to the City Hall lawn where hundreds of Occupy L.A. protesters are camped out is becoming an issue for Los Angeles officials even as the protesters make plans to expand their demonstration to other downtown city property.
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Occupy LA turned out to be a lot more costly to the city than originally anticipated. After the park surrounding LA's City Hall was cleared by the LAPD in November, published estimates suggested the total cost of the two month occupation would be about $2.3 million. A new report released Friday by the city puts the total at $4.7 million.
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At one point, Mogulof said, the squatters pruned some fruit trees on the property and explained to the dean of resources that they had to do it because the trees were diseased. Turns out the pruned branches were part of a research project on how diseases affect fruit trees, he said.
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To the folks at Weston Wear, it was like getting salt rubbed in their wound. The day after a marauding band of Occupy protesters smashed the Valencia Street clothing store's windows, the owners got another jolt - a city citation notice for having graffiti on the plywood they had put over the vandalized windows. "It was just a head-scratcher to us," said Bridget Moore, the store manager. "It seemed there was no thought as to why we had a bunch of plywood up."
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Business owners in San Francisco's Mission District, cleaning up after a night in which protesters damaged more than 30 stores and restaurants and vandalized cars, questioned Tuesday why activists had singled them out and why police hadn't done more to halt the rampage. Among those dealing with the damage were officers at the neighborhood police station, where black-clad, masked activists threw paint and bashed the front door Monday night.
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Black-clad protesters in Seattle used sticks to smash small downtown windows and ran through the streets disrupting traffic. In New York, police in riot gear lined the front of a Bank of America, facing several dozen Occupy activists marching behind barricades. "Bank of America. Bad for America!" they chanted. About 50 demonstrators in Chicago rallied outside another of the bank's branches.
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"What we have now is almost like a floor as opposed to a seed bed, so throwing seed down will be like throwing marbles across the floor," Hass said. "It would not take, it would not grow, so our important thing is to create a seed bed in whatever means we can without damaging the roots of the trees." Mayor John DeStefano says $145,000 is how much the Occupy movement cost the city from October 15 through the restoration. That number includes services the city provided to the Occupiers, including port-a-potties and trash removal. "I would say it's a drop in the bucket from what the corporate criminals have stolen from us," said Occupy demonstrator Ray Neal.
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Two Occupy Wall Street protesters were collared Thursday for vandalizing subways — a day after a local TV news station recorded the crime, cops said. Jeffrey Brewer, 34, and Aaron Minter, 40, spoke to NY1 News on Wednesday and allowed a news team to follow them as they placed decals on a subway car seats, cops said. The stickers read: “Priority Seating for the 1%.” After receiving a complaint about the underground shenannigans, police watched the news segment when it aired on TV, cops said.
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Back in January Occupiers spray-painted Roth's front steps with "We never forgive - Occupy." Last weekend when Occupy St. Louis hosted trust fund socialists from all across the country, his home was vandalized again, this time "Blood on your hands" was the message. Occupiers previously had busted the windshield of a cop car and heavily vandalized a number of historic landmarks in the city's Reservoir Park. Three months ago they vandalized a subdivision entrance.
The Oakland City Council will take up a resolution Thursday supporting the Occupy encampment and calling on city administrators to "collaborate with protesters" for the "safe and lawful" use of Frank Ogawa Plaza as a 24-hour demonstration site.
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BERKELEY (KCBS) — Berkeley Police acknowledge they didn’t immediately respond to a call in the hills that would eventually result in a homicide this past Saturday. Officers were preparing for an Occupy protest headed to UC Berkeley from Oakland...
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When Occupy took over a foreclosed East New York home in December they promised to fix it up. Instead, as owner Wise Ahadzi found (pictured), they destroyed it.
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The lights went out at Occupy Tacoma’s downtown encampment Wednesday night, and chances are they won’t come on again. Protesters, who have been camped out since Oct. 15 in Pugnetti Park on Pacific Avenue, had tapped into electrical power supplying the park’s six light poles.
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The Santa Barbara Police Department is asking for the public’s help identifying those involved with a recent rash of vandalism in the Mesa area, including a Wells Fargo ATM that has been damaged on several occasions.
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Repairs to City Hall’s lawn where the Occupy group set up camp on Oct. 1 will require an estimated $400,000. The police action to clear out the encampment on Nov. 30 cost more than $700,000... Mayor Villaraigosa says more budget cuts will be necessary to offset the costs.
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Issa pointed to Recovery.gov, which says Fort Myer Construction Corporation was awarded $424,600 to rehabilitate the park with new grass, concrete curbs, refurbished benches, light poles, water fountains, paint, chain fencing, trash cans and light meters. Issa said much of the refurbishment was "damaged or destroyed" by Salazar's department permitting "illegal camping" in the park.
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West Coast ports tried to get back to business as usual Tuesday as they tallied their losses after anti-Wall Street protests that blocked trucks and curbed business along busy waterfronts. Long lines of trucks waited outside port gates and some workers reported early to clear the cargo backlog left after thousands of Occupy demonstrators forced shipping terminals in Oakland, Calif., Portland, Ore., and Longview, Wash., to halt parts of their operations Monday.
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Brennan couldn’t provide an estimate for what the final repair bill will be, but local landscapers pegged it at upward of $50,000.
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“My office was invaded by the Occupy Protesters today & all I saw were $1000 laptops & vomit on the carpet. Thank God for #febreze,” Walsh tweeted Tuesday. A spokesperson for Rep. Walsh confirmed the tummy troubles. “Someone did vomit on the carpet in our lobby,” the spokesperson said. “There were about 20 protesters for about roughly six hours.”
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According to Santa Cruz Police, the suspects left behind more than $30,000 worth of damage to the vacant Well Fargo building before finally leaving Sunday night.
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A man was found dead in a tent at a vacant Occupy Denton campsite on UNT campus at about 5 p.m Saturday. According to UNT spokesman Buddy Price, the man was believed to be an Occupy Denton participant, and the cause and time of death were unknown at this time. He said no one was at the camp when police arrived on the scene.
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The encampment turned the once-lush City Hall lawns into patches of dirt strewn with debris. Crude graffiti was scrawled on some City Hall walls. A treehouse constructed of wooden pallets lashed to four palm trees stood empty. It was decorated with U.S. flags, a pinata, various secondhand objects and signs that read "free hugs" and "we are the music makers, we are the dreamers of dreams." Occupy LA protesters destroyed the grass, damaged trees and sprayed graffiti on statues before the statues were boarded up, said Leo Martinez, a division manager with the city sanitation department.
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Sanitation officials said Wednesday that they expect to haul away 30 tons of debris from the Occupy L.A. encampment –- everything from clothing to heaps of garbage to oddball curiosities left behind by the protesters who lived at the City Hall tent city for two months.
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A few minutes ago, Occupy Dallas posted to its Facebook page a note that two of its former members -- which is to say, the group of protesters who split the camp before Dallas Police broke it up last week -- were arrested for decorating the downtown Neiman Marcus with a little fake blood.
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A bank in north Seattle had all its windows broken. Someone spray-painted “Revenge for Occupy Oakland” on an outside wall.
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NEW YORK (AP) — During the first two months of the nationwide Occupy protests, the movement that is demanding more out of the wealthiest Americans cost local taxpayers at least $13 million in police overtime and other municipal services, according to a survey by The Associated Press.
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City sanitation workers yesterday were forced to pick through a filthy pile of property seized from Zuccotti Park including dirty hypodermic needles, moldy food and glass-littered, broken gadgets. “I pick up garbage [for a living], and these were some of the worst smells I’ve ever experienced,’’ one worker grumbled to The Post.
Rep. Darrell Issa, the chairman of the House oversight committee, is asking the Obama administration to explain how it could allow Occupy protesters to destroy $400,000 worth of landscaping and refurbishment by setting up camp in a D.C. park.
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47-Richard-Allen Fuller was arrested for Criminal Mischief in the Second Degree after he damaged a marked Gresham police car by smashing out a window with a hammer. The patrol car was parked on Southwest 3rd Avenue, next to Chapman Square.
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For security costs alone since Occupy Minnesota started Oct. 7, the Hennepin County Government Security, Hennepin County Sheriff, and Minneapolis Police Department have combined to spend more $400,000 dollars. That means security costs more than $10,000 each day.
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Anti-Wall Street protesters in Oakland have vandalized a Whole Foods store and shattered windows at two downtown banks. Windows were shattered at a Bank of America branch, where someone also spraypainted "Class War" and "Shut it Down," near Lake Merritt and a Chase bank at 20th and Webster streets.
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OAKLAND, Calif.—Oakland says it has spent an estimated $2.4 million in its efforts to contain the Occupy Oakland protests. The city says the month-long protest has forced the city to pay overtime costs, maintain security upgrades to its information technology and open at least one winter shelter early.
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Downing said about 70 dump truck loads of trash and debris were hauled from the camps over the weekend. He said about 30 city employees worked Sunday to clear the parks.
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The Occupy Wall Street movement has cost surrounding businesses $479,400 so far, store owners said. A Post survey of a dozen restaurants, jewelry shops, beauty salons, a chain store and mom-and-pop establishments tallied almost a half-million dollars lost in the 53 days since the Zuccotti Park siege began on Sept. 17. “We’re done with them!” barked one Broadway business owner. The restaurateur -- who requested anonymity for fear of reprisals -- said his profits drained as soon as campers moved in.
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Hundreds of officers were on hand -- most on overtime -- in what Portland police spokesman Lt. Robert King called a "dramatic expenditure." Police overtime already had exceeded $320,000 the past five weeks of the protest
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mayor and police chief of Gresham delivered an invoice for $1,500 to the Occupy Portland encampment Thursday and told demonstrators to pay up. That's the cost of fixing two Gresham police cars whose windows were smashed with a hammer Tuesday while parked near the camp. The Oregonian reports Mayor Shane Bemis noted news accounts that indicated Occupy Portland has about $16,000 on hand.
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Officials at Seattle Central Community College say they are getting fed up with the movement's encampment at the school, estimating that the demonstration is costing it $20,000 a week.
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The city will be on the hook for at least $40,000 to clean up after protesters at Olympic Plaza, and to repair damage to the park from the continuing Occupy Calgary movement, according to the parks department.
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Mayor Sam Adams said this morning that the person who planted a Molotov cocktail in a stairwell of the World Trade Center was linked to the Occupy Portland camp. He said in an interview with OPB's "Think Out Loud" that the suspect was seen “by others” returning to the encampment after planting the device.
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Portland police think an Occupy Portland demonstrator threw a Molotov cocktail at the World Trade Center building in downtown Portland Tuesday night... Last Monday, police received unconfirmed information that someone within the Occupy Portland camps may be making Molotov cocktails.
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She and her employees are terrified by the constant threats, which she said began after she demanded the protesters stop using her shop’s restroom as a place to bathe every day. The final straw came about two weeks ago, when the demonstrators broke a bathroom sink, flooding the shop, and clogged the toilet -- setting her back $3,000 in damages.
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“Both carts have had items stolen, have had their covers vandalized with markings and graffiti, as well as one of the carts had urine and blood splattered on it,” said Councilman Carl DeMaio. The damages will likely require at least a complete cleaning if not a replacement of the cart covers, DeMaio said.
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The city’s price tag for Occupy Seattle has swelled to $426,431 through last Friday, the latest figure available from the mayor’s office this week. It doesn’t include Wednesday night’s Chase bank protests, in which officers arrested and pepper-sprayed demonstrators in Capitol Hill and downtown.
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Charlotte police estimate the cost of a round-the-clock presence at the protest in the Queen City to be over $105,000 since Oct. 1.
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Protesters entrenched in the tent city in the square said today that they did not regret costing the city money. “I never thought about that,” said Laurel Byrne-Macmillan, 31, a nurse from Gloucester, when asked about the cost. “But you know what? Democracy isn’t free. … We have the right as citizens to inconvenience some people to get our point across, and that is one of the gifts this country gives to us.”
Federal prosecutors have moved to collect $35,000 from a California lawyer who signed an unsecured bond on behalf of Christopher Doyon, the homeless Anonymous hacker who called himself “Commander X,” after Doyon reportedly fled to Canada. Doyon was arrested by the FBI back in September and charged with taking part in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the city of Santa Cruz’s computer servers in protest of an anti-camping law.
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The localized version of the anti-Wall Street protest, Occupy Phoenix, has cost Phoenix $204,162 since protesters began their demonstrations on Oct. 14, city officials said.
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A Zuccotti Park protester threw a violent fit in a McDonald’s yesterday after employees refused to give him free food. Fisika Bezabeh, 27, ripped a credit-card reader from a counter and threw it at workers at about 2:30 a.m. at the Mickey D’s at 160 Broadway, a bathroom spot for protesters. No one was hurt by Bezabeh, who has been seen hanging out with protesters in the occupied park, police sources said. He has been charged with criminal mischief.
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The Occupy Seattle protests have cost the city $104,869 in overtime through last Friday, according to figures released Wednesday.
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The owner of a normally bustling downtown Manhattan cafe claims that 21 of his employees lost their jobs last week and that it is a direct result of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Marc Epstein, owner of the Milk Street Cafe at 40 Wall St., said he was forced to lay off the members of his staff last Friday after suffering a 30 percent dip in sales in the six weeks since the protests started.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCRA) -- A 21-year-old Sacramento man arrested over the weekend at an "Occupy Chico" rally was taken into custody again late Tuesday night after being caught smashing out county vehicle windows with a shovel, Oroville police said.
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MINNEAPOLIS - The cost of Occupy Minnesota protests is starting to add up for Minneapolis police. Tuesday afternoon, Sgt. William Palmer says the total cost to the Minneapolis Police Department is closing in $100,000. Palmer says the city has had to pay $43,500 for approximately 726 hours of overtime.
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MINNEAPOLIS – The Occupy Minnesota protesters have been rallying in downtown Minneapolis for nearly a month now, and the costs are starting to add-up. Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek was on WJON with Bob Hughes this (Wednesday) morning. He says the cost for just his department are well over $200,000. The money is coming out of their general fund.
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Mark Epstein, owner of the Milk Street Cafe at 40 Wall Street, just let 21 employees go. The reason? The barricades police have set up throughout Wall Street as a consequence of the ongoing demonstration.
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The New York Police Department already has spent $1.9 million, mostly in overtime pay, to patrol the area near Zuccotti Park, where hundreds of protesters have camped out for several weeks.
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BOSTON (CBS) – Linda Capillo doesn’t know why, after 23 years, her small convenience store on Congress Street is being targeted by thieves. “After they came through the door, I put bars on it,” said Capillo. “Then, they start coming through the window.” In 23 years, she had never had a break-in at Congress Card & Tobacco on 230 Congress Street. But in the past month, there have been four. Each time, the thieves took nothing but cigarettes, scratch tickets and/or cash.
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Mullins said more than 20 officers have been injured during the course of the Wall Street protests, now in their sixth week since kicking off Sept. 17. “Protesters are not immunized from civil liability merely because their victims are wearing the uniform of the New York City Police Department,” he said.
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Across the country, the figures are growing. In New York City, overtime costs are $3.4 million. In Minneapolis, the sheriff’s department reports spending $200,000. And in Boston, the tally is $2 million and counting.
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Portland Commissioner Nick Fish on Monday said it will cost taxpayers at least $19,000 to repair downtown Portland's Chapman and Lownsdale squares from the nearly two-week Occupy Portland demonstration. It's a figure he said will only continue to grow as Occupy Portland lingers.
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Portland police say they have spend $186,400 on overtime related to the Occupy Portland protests as of last Sunday. The overtime includes costs incurred during rallies and marches, along with a number of officers assigned to patrol the protest camp that was established after theinitial march to protest Wall Street on Oct. 6. Portland Parks and Recreation estimated the camps had caused $19,000 worth of damage to Chapman and Lownsdale squares as of several days ago. Hundreds of people have been camping in them for the past three weeks.
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The sprawling Occupy Boston encampment in downtown has forced the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy to call off a food fest long planned for this weekend. The “Greenway Mobile Food Fest” set for Saturday has been canceled and won’t be held until the spring, the conservancy announced today.
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BOSTON -- A Boston Police Department website was hacked. At least 2,000 names and passwords have been posted online. The group claiming responsibility said they support the Occupy Boston movement.
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Spray painted messages were found in 21 locations around Boston. This appears to be the work of anarchists associated with the Occupy Boston group.
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The cost of repairing the increasing damage to the City Hall lawn where hundreds of Occupy L.A. protesters are camped out is becoming an issue for Los Angeles officials even as the protesters make plans to expand their demonstration to other downtown city property.
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OAKLAND (CBS SF)– Occupy Oakland organizers said Monday that they are calling for work stoppages, school walkouts and the closure of banks and corporations during a general strike and mass day of action that’s planned for Wednesday.
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FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- Police have arrested an Occupy Fort Collins protester in connection with a $10 million arson fire that damaged dozens of condominiums and businesses in Fort Collins.