Fight the power!
More than 1,800 protesters have been arrested participating in Occupy Wall Street demonstrations across the United States since the movement began one month ago today and has since spread across the globe, according to reports compiled by The Daily.
Yet despite mounting arrests and worsening weather, the protesters keep coming back for more and say they refuse to step down until the nation’s growing economic inequity and corporate control over politicians changes.
“It’s never going to shrink now,” Chris Phillips, a 30-year-old chef from Buffalo, N.Y., told The Daily as he manned the information booth yesterday morning in New York City’s Zuccotti Park — where the number of people camped out there has swelled into the hundreds since the movement began with a dozen or so college students on Sept. 17.
“You could lose the park, but we’d still be alive,” said Phillips. “It’s a viral revolution. It’s amazing.”
New York City has by far seen the most arrests, with at least 948 — including more than 700 people corralled by police as they attempted to cross the Brooklyn Bridge on the vehicle level on Oct. 1 — followed by 246 in Chicago and 169 in Boston, according to various news reports.
Speaking of viral, yesterday, more than 100 people retweeted: “#OWS Fact: More people have now been arrested for protesting financial crimes than the # of bankers arrested for committing those crimes.”
Nineteen more activists, including Princeton University’s renowned scholar Cornel West, were arrested in Washington, D.C., yesterday for refusing to leave the steps of the Supreme Court.
Another 19 demonstrators, including anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, were booked into the Sacramento, Calif., County Jail for refusing to leave a park across from City Hall.
Aside from the mass arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge, the vast majority of the arrests have been for violating park curfews as more than a hundred encampments modeled after Zuccotti Park have cropped up across America.
Occupy Phoenix participant Tom Marcinko, 56, told The Daily the mood there remains “upbeat” despite 46 arrests after midnight Saturday as demonstrators sat on the ground, refusing to leave. Another 53 were arrested in Tucson, Ariz., the same night.
Marcinko said “Occupiers” up north are welcome to escape the upcoming cold weather by swelling the crowds in Phoenix. But they’re likely making their own arrangements.
“We just got pedal-power generators for our electricity and I think we’ll have to dream up something equally as innovative for heat,” said Occupy Boston demonstrator Nadeem Mazen, 28.
— With M.L. Nestel
SEATTLE
Began: Oct. 1
Arrests: 40
Peak campers: 250
BOSTON
Began: Sept. 30
Arrests: 169
Peak campers: 450
SAN DIEGO
Began: Oct. 8
Arrests: 2
Peak campers: 200
CHICAGO
Began: Sept. 23
Arrests: 246
Peak campers: 500
DENVER
Began: Oct. 22
Arrests: 24
Peak campers: 100
RALEIGH, N.C.
Began: Oct. 15
Arrests: 20
Peak campers: 0 (campers arrested)
PHOENIX
Began: Oct. 14
Arrests: 46
Peak campers: 0 (arrested)
HOUSTON
Began: Oct. 6
Arrests: 8
Peak campers: 30
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Began: Oct. 7
Arrests: 21
Peak campers: 24
SAN FRANCISCO
Began: Sept. 19
Arrests: 18
Peak campers: 200
NEW YORK
Began: Sept. 17
Arrests: 948
Peak campers: 400
More than 1,800 protesters have been arrested participating in Occupy Wall Street demonstrations across the United States since the movement began one month ago today and has since spread across the globe, according to reports compiled by The Daily.
Yet despite mounting arrests and worsening weather, the protesters keep coming back for more and say they refuse to step down until the nation’s growing economic inequity and corporate control over politicians changes.
“It’s never going to shrink now,” Chris Phillips, a 30-year-old chef from Buffalo, N.Y., told The Daily as he manned the information booth yesterday morning in New York City’s Zuccotti Park — where the number of people camped out there has swelled into the hundreds since the movement began with a dozen or so college students on Sept. 17.
“You could lose the park, but we’d still be alive,” said Phillips. “It’s a viral revolution. It’s amazing.”
New York City has by far seen the most arrests, with at least 948 — including more than 700 people corralled by police as they attempted to cross the Brooklyn Bridge on the vehicle level on Oct. 1 — followed by 246 in Chicago and 169 in Boston, according to various news reports.
Speaking of viral, yesterday, more than 100 people retweeted: “#OWS Fact: More people have now been arrested for protesting financial crimes than the # of bankers arrested for committing those crimes.”
Nineteen more activists, including Princeton University’s renowned scholar Cornel West, were arrested in Washington, D.C., yesterday for refusing to leave the steps of the Supreme Court.
Another 19 demonstrators, including anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, were booked into the Sacramento, Calif., County Jail for refusing to leave a park across from City Hall.
Aside from the mass arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge, the vast majority of the arrests have been for violating park curfews as more than a hundred encampments modeled after Zuccotti Park have cropped up across America.
Occupy Phoenix participant Tom Marcinko, 56, told The Daily the mood there remains “upbeat” despite 46 arrests after midnight Saturday as demonstrators sat on the ground, refusing to leave. Another 53 were arrested in Tucson, Ariz., the same night.
Marcinko said “Occupiers” up north are welcome to escape the upcoming cold weather by swelling the crowds in Phoenix. But they’re likely making their own arrangements.
“We just got pedal-power generators for our electricity and I think we’ll have to dream up something equally as innovative for heat,” said Occupy Boston demonstrator Nadeem Mazen, 28.
— With M.L. Nestel
SEATTLE
Began: Oct. 1
Arrests: 40
Peak campers: 250
BOSTON
Began: Sept. 30
Arrests: 169
Peak campers: 450
SAN DIEGO
Began: Oct. 8
Arrests: 2
Peak campers: 200
CHICAGO
Began: Sept. 23
Arrests: 246
Peak campers: 500
DENVER
Began: Oct. 22
Arrests: 24
Peak campers: 100
RALEIGH, N.C.
Began: Oct. 15
Arrests: 20
Peak campers: 0 (campers arrested)
PHOENIX
Began: Oct. 14
Arrests: 46
Peak campers: 0 (arrested)
HOUSTON
Began: Oct. 6
Arrests: 8
Peak campers: 30
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Began: Oct. 7
Arrests: 21
Peak campers: 24
SAN FRANCISCO
Began: Sept. 19
Arrests: 18
Peak campers: 200
NEW YORK
Began: Sept. 17
Arrests: 948
Peak campers: 400
