SAN FRANCISCO: 100 protesters pour into Bank of America.
San Francisco police began arresting students and anti-Wall Street demonstrators who stormed into a downtown Bank of America, sat down and began chanting.
More than 100 demonstrators stormed the bank Wednesday chanting, “Money for schools and education, not for banks and corporations.” Riot-clad officers began putting plastic cuffs on the demonstrators, who refused to leave the bank.
The bank protest occurred after ReFund California, a coalition of student groups and university employee unions, bused in protesters from UC Berkeley, the University of California, Merced and other schools to join San Francisco’s Occupy demonstrators.
LAS VEGAS: Occupy group acts nice with city.
In a city that celebrates behaving badly, Occupy Las Vegas protesters are touting civil obedience and government cooperation.
Las Vegas demonstrators have sought official approval before protesting or setting up a campsite. They called off a protest during President Barack Obama’s visit to Las Vegas last month because police asked them to do so. And they have created a system of protest rules that ban, among other things, law-breaking and hate signs.
Organizers insist their anti-greed message has a better chance of spreading if they aren’t labeled violent anarchists.
SEATTLE: Elderly woman hit with pepper spray.
An 84-year-old woman has become a face of the national Occupy Wall Street movement after she was hit with pepper spray during a Seattle march.
Dorli Rainey has been active in Seattle’s liberal politics for decades and once ran for mayor. She said Wednesday that she showed up at the downtown protest the previous day to show support.
Police say demonstrators were blocking a downtown intersection.
Mayor Mike McGinn has apologized to some protesters who were pepper-sprayed during a march and said he has spoken to Rainey.
DALLAS: Activists reach accord with city.
An attorney for Occupy Dallas said an agreement with the city was reached Wednesday that allows protesters to stay at a campsite near City Hall four more weeks — as long as they obey the law.
Protesters say they will keep their campsite clean so they don’t get kicked out.
COLUMBIA, S.C.: Police round up protesters.
Officers started arresting Occupy Columbia protesters Wednesday after Gov. Nikki Haley ordered them to leave the Statehouse grounds.
The governor said the people who had been sleeping on the complex for more than a month had cost the state more than $17,000 in property damage and overtime for police. About 20 people challenged the governor’s order, and they were arrested in the pouring rain without incident.
BOSTON: Judge tells city to back off.
A Boston judge has ordered the city not to remove protesters or their tents from a downtown encampment without court approval, except in an emergency. A temporary restraining order was issued after a hearing Wed nesday on the protesters’ lawsuit. Fuller arguments will be heard Dec. 1.
LONDON: Officials prepare to evict demonstrators.
London officials attached eviction notices to protest tents outside St. Paul’s Cathedral on Wednesday, asking the demonstrators to remove the camp within a day or face legal action. The notices said the encampment was “an unlawful obstruction” of a sidewalk, and asked protesters to take down “all tents and other structures.”
Denver Post wire services
