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October 3rd, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda As the Occupy Wall Street demonstration in New York City picks up steam, protests continued to spread across the country over the weekend.
And while hundreds of participants were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, others are joining in solidarity from across the country.
Around 700 people participating in the Occupy Wall Street movement were arrested on Saturday after marching from the Financial District in lower Manhattan onto the historic bridge that spans the East River in New York. As word began to circulate that cops were surrounding the protesters in masse and making arrests, hundreds of more demonstrators made the march to rally for their release and continue their chants to do away with corporate greed and financial mismanagement ravaging America.
Despite the massive arrests, similar events are also gaining momentum. Chicago, Los Angeles and Chicago saw protests last week, and by Saturday others were gathering in central parts of other large American cities, including Boston, Boulder and Portland, Oregon.
“This is our Tahrir Square,” Emilio Baez told Press TV over the weekend while camped out outside Willis Tower in downtown Chicago. “We’ll stay here for months if we have to,” he told the Tribune.
Kira Moyer-Sims, 19, of Portland, Oregon traveled to New York City over the weekend to participate. She tells The Associate Press that the NYPD “thought we were going to leave and we haven’t,” and adds that they’re “going to stay as long as we can.”
In the nearly 20 days since the protests started, participants have not even come close to show signs of giving up.
To RT America last week, Chelsea Elliott of Brooklyn said, “I just hope that as this group, as we build momentum, so will an understanding and awareness of the situation of our government.” Elliott was pepper-sprayed by an on-duty NYPD officer last weekend for participating in the protests in New York. She says the attack was unprovoked.
“It took about three seconds for it to register what had happened,” Elliott told RT. “At that moment, my mind kind of went blank. I was just so confused as to why. I just fell to the ground.”
This weekend, others insist that the NYPD continued to make arrests for those that were protesting peacefully and without provocation. The New York Police Department, however, says that those that were arrested on the bridge this weekend were apprehended for breaking the law.
As the movement gains momentum, however, the protesters are quickly outnumbering the police. What began as a handful of demonstrators in Lower Manhattan has grown to upwards of a thousand at any given time in New York. Support has been offered from all parts of the world, and later this month the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada is expecting to host their own demonstration.
Stay tuned to RT America later today and in the coming days for our continuing coverage.
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