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Some Occupy Boston protesters packing, in wake of midnight deadline by Mayor Menino

Some Occupy Boston protesters began packing up their belongings today, in the wake of Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino issuing a midnight deadline for them to leave their Dewey Square encampment.

Protester William Krause, 40, of South Boston, was stuffing two garbage bags with his belongings this afternoon. He said he wasn’t going to stay to be arrested.

The editor of the Boston Police Department’s union newspaper has a message for Occupy Wall Street: you’re a bunch of ignorant idiots — and your kids are stupid too. Officer James W. Carnell, a veteran of the Boston PD and the managing editor for Pax Centurion, has penned a scathing op-ed in the latest issue of the official newspaper of the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association.

Hundreds of police barricaded the New York Stock Exchange as Occupy Wall Street protesters swarmed the Financial District for the movement's one-year anniversary, with over 180 reportedly arrested.

Boston police spying on antiwar protesters - ACLU gets documents

S.F. police raid Occupy camp, arrest 70

(12-07) 12:12 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- Police raided the Occupy SF camp early today, arresting 70 campers and protesters at Justin Herman Plaza and clearing out the 2-month-old encampment.

A Boston Police Department special operations team and dozens of police units stood outside a Mission Hill apartment for four tense hours last night thinking they were engaged in a standoff with armed robbery suspects. But when they finally went into the multifamily last night, no one was inside.

Dozens of police in riot gear and hundreds of protesters in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement engaged in a game of cat-and-mouse in downtown Oakland on Tuesday, with authorities using tear gas to respond to demonstrators' repeated agitations.

A new right-wing movement billing itself the 53% is arising in response to the "I Am The 99%" Occupy Wall Street protesters and accuses the OWS protesters of being "whiners."

Twenty-three years ago the Chinese People's Liberation Army violently cleared Beijing's Tiananmen Square of protesters. The demonstration called for democracy and widespread political reform. The protests began in April of 1989, gaining support as initial government reactions included concessions. Martial law was declared on May 20, troops were mobilized and pushed into Tiananmen Square, crushing some protesters and firing on many others. The exact number killed may never be known, but estimates range from several hundred to several thousand.