USA TODAY: … What Occupy Wall Street leaders termed a “Day of Action,” which was planned before police raided and dismantled a tent city in Lower Manhattan early Tuesday, was seen as a test of whether the loss of its founding settlement had energized the movement or demoralized it.
Despite fears that the protesters might delay the opening of the New York Stock Exchange and try to stop subway service, the day was a relatively peaceful mixture of marches, speeches, street theater, standoffs with police and attempts to proselytize passersby at subway stations.
Thursday evening, about a thousand people walked peacefully and legally across the Brooklyn Bridge, staying on the walkway under the eye of hundreds of police officers. The bridge was the site of more than 700 arrests Oct. 1 when protesters tried to block it. … (more)
