Occupy Wall Street day of action ends in Brooklyn Bridge march
Thousands of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators ended a nationwide day of protest by swarming across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, in a defiant show of support after police forcibly cleared the park that was the crucible of the movement in the United States.
Carrying electric candles and chanting, the crowds avoided clashes with the police by sticking to the pedestrian walkway. "Bloomberg, beware: Zuccotti Park is everywhere," they chanted, challenging New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, who had ordered the clear-out of the lower Manhattan plaza earlier in the week.
There were protests in St Louis, Los Angeles, Portland, Oregon, and other cities around the United States to mark two months since theOccupy movement set up camp in Zuccotti Park in New York. In New York, the day of protest began when hundreds of demonstrators joined a heavily policed march through New York's Financial District. They gathered at intersections around Wall Street, chanting and singing. But their plans to stop traders getting to work at the New York Stock Exchange were thwarted by police, some in riot gear, who blocked the surrounding streets..'
