Occupy Wall Street (and Beyond) LiveStream: Police Move on Liberty Park in New York

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2200 GMT: Josh Harkinson and James West of Mother Jones present the climactic moments of the police raid of Zuccotti/Liberty Square early this morning:

2155 GMT: A New York court has ruled that the city can bar protesters from bringing tents, sleeping bags, and tarps back into Zuccotti/Liberty Square when it is re-opened.

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Occupy Wall Street Video: A Marine to New York Police "This is Not a War Zone"

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Marine Sergeant Shamar Thomas yells at police in New York City's Times Square, "If you want to fight, go to Iraq and Afghanistan", and in the last 75 seconds of the video, explains his actions:

And another veteran has a message for the claim of Fox News' Sean Hannity that demonstrators are "unpatriotic": "When they have these protests overseas, we call them democratic" (Warning: Strong Language at end of video):

Occupy Wall Street: The Victory at Liberty Park This Morning

The moment when protesters in New York's Zuccotti Park, renamed Liberty Park by the demonstrators, learned New York City authorities were backing away from their forced evacuation of the park for cleaning

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CNN reports:

A cleaning planned for the Manhattan park where "Occupy Wall Street" protesters have camped out for weeks has been postponed, a move that averts a showdown between demonstrators and police.

The New York mayor's office said Brookfield Properties, the owners of Zuccotti Park, told the city late Thursday the scheduled cleaning is off for now and "for the time being" they are "withdrawing their request" made earlier in the week for police assistance during the cleaning operation.

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