Atlanta mayor under fire for busting Occupiers
theGRIO REPORT - Mayor Reed now says the city had no choice but to close the park down because a protester was seen with an AK-47...
Atlanta police arrest Wall Street protesters
ATLANTA (AP) - With helicopters hovering overhead, police moved into a downtown Atlanta park and arrested around 50 Occupy Wall Street protesters who had been encamped there for about two weeks early Wednesday...
Oakland tense after police, protesters clash
OAKLAND, California (AP) - The scene was tense early Wednesday as a crowd of hundreds of protesters dwindled to just a few dozen at the site of several clashes between authorities and supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement a night earlier...
Police clear Occupy Oakland protesters
OAKLAND, California (AP) - Television news footage showed numerous people in plastic handcuffs being led away from the Oakland site around 5 a.m...
Mourners praise civil rights activist Shuttlesworth
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Rep. John Lewis called the preacher 'one of the founding fathers of the New America,' who put his body on the line to end segregation and racial discrimination...
Holder, pastors praise civil rights icon Shuttlesworth
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, often eclipsed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in life, was praised Sunday as the catalyst who brought the civil rights movement to Birmingham and launched King into immortality...
Occupy Chicago: 130 arrested in city park protest
CHICAGO (AP) - Anti-Wall Street demonstrators of the Occupy Chicago movement stood their ground in a downtown park in noisy but peaceful defiance of police orders to clear out...
West: MLK would oppose Occupy Wall Street
THE HILL - Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) rejected President Obama's comparison between Martin Luther King Jr. and what he called the 'Occupy Wall Street gangs.'...
Teacher fired for anti-Semitic remarks at 'Occupy LA'
A substitute teacher no longer has a job with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) after footage of her anti-Semitic views surfaced...
Jesse Jackson joins human barricade against NYPD
A heated confrontation Monday night between Occupy Wall Street protesters and the NYPD was defused through the help of some civil rights star power: Rev. Jesse Jackson...
