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Media Missed The Coputation Of Wall Street

By the time the news vans arrived in force, the morning sunlight had already caressed the corners of Zuccotti Park. They were too late.
Janus Rose
New York, US

By the time the news vans arrived in force, the morning sunlight had already caressed the corners of Zuccotti Park. They were too late. The space had been, for nearly 2 months, the foremost base of operations for Occupy Wall Street, the movement formed to shine light on the dark crevices of injustice inhabited by moneyed interests within the American political system. But now it was gone, barricaded on all sides and replaced by a barren expanse of concrete as it once was, before members of the movement built it into a modern-day Hooverville complete with a kitchen, lending library, media center and more.

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There was no evidence any of it had ever happened, save for perhaps the police presence and crowds of angry demonstrators closing in on all sides. But more importantly, there was little to no evidence of how it all disappeared. At around 1 AM that morning, NYPD riot squads, under orders from Mayor Michael Bloomberg, advanced on the tent city and evicted its occupants, throwing tents, clothes, books, computers and other possessions indiscriminately onto large trash heaps sitting aside sanitation trucks.

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