World Food Prize activities attract Occupy protest in Des Moines
October 18, 2012 in The Daily Republic
The group opposes what it sees as a focus on corporate agriculture motivated more by profit than food safety or protection of natural resources.
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A Mitchell resident last month visited Washington, D.C. Along with various trips to monuments and other typical sites, his agenda included a side trip to see the Occupy Wall Street protest that has been ongoing in that city, north of the White House.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) More than 1,000 Occupy Wall Street protesters blocked cargo trucks at busy West Coast ports Monday, forcing some shipping terminals in Oakland, Calif., Portland, Ore., and Longview, Wash., to halt operations.
LOS ANGELES (AP) Occupy Wall Street protesters who defied a deadline to remove their weeks-old encampment on the Los Angeles City Hall lawn stood their ground Tuesday.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The University of California, Davis said Monday that it has placed its police chief on administrative leave amid outrage over widely circulated videos of officers dousing pepper spray on student Occupy protesters.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Video surfaced online Saturday showing an officer at a California university calmly pepper-spraying a line of several sitting protesters, who flinch and cover their faces but remain passive with their arms interlocked as onlookers shriek and scream out for the officer to stop.
NEW YORK (AP) Occupy Wall Street protesters clogged streets and tied up traffic around the U.S. on Thursday to mark two months since the movement’s birth and signal they aren’t ready to quit, despite the breakup of many of their encampments by police. More than 200 people were arrested, most of them in New York.
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