Police say nearly 200 people have been arrested as Occupy Wall Street protesters march in small groups around Manhattan's financial district to mark the anniversary of the grass-roots movement.
About 300 people observing the anniversary of Occupy Wall Street marched to a small concrete park in New York's lower Manhattan that served as headquarters for the protest movement and was its birthplace.
While the Occupy Wall Street protests in major cities across the world are garnering media attention, the OWS movement is also spreading into Ocean County in the form of Occupy Toms River.
Demonstrations of Occupy Wall Street protesters popped up from coast to coast Thursday to mark two months since the movement's birth in a lower Manhattan park.Protesters are also rallying in Trenton in front of the Statehouse.
Police have moved into the Occupy Wall Street encampment at New York City's Zuccotti Park and arrested 70 protesters as the park was cleared for a thorough cleaning.
Thousands of U.S. military veterans are heeding the rallying cry of Occupy Wall Street, saying corporate contractors in Iraq made big money while the troops defending them came home — and can’t make a living now.