The Occupy Wall Street movement has close to $300,000, as well as storage space loaded with donated supplies in lower Manhattan. It stared down city officials to hang on to its makeshift headquarters, showed its muscle on Saturday with a big Times Square demonstration and found legions of activists demonstrating in solidarity across the country [...]
The Chinese Communist party’s most powerful decision making body, the Central Committee, on Saturday opened its sixth plenary meeting to prepare for sweeping changes in the party leadership next year. Over 200 Central Committee members and another 150 alternate members picked up from military, government and the provincial committees are meeting in the capital, [...]
Americans protesting corporate greed and inequality faced down authorities in parks and plazas across the country ahead of what organisers describe as 24 hours of public action planned Saturday in cities around the world. Groups spanning the globe from Asia to Europe and in every U.S. state announced demonstrations and other actions. The rapidly growing [...]