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Occupy D.C. threw itself a one-year birthday party Monday, and to celebrate, protesters vowed to “storm” K Street — the symbolic heart of the nation’s lobbying industry.
But the day of marches and teach-ins around downtown unfolded with relative calm. About 50 protesters took to the streets waving signs, chanting and singing. They were trailed by a large cadre of D.C. police, in vans, on foot and on Segways, who obligingly shut down streets for them.
More than 180 Occupy Wall Street arrests in NYC
Occupy Wall Street protesters celebrated the movement’s anniversary on Monday by clogging intersections in the city’s financial district, marching to the beat of drums that were a familiar refrain last year.
Protesters roamed around the lower Manhattan financial district all morning in groups of a few dozen each, from one intersection to another and back again, chanting loudly about the ills of Wall Street. In total, there were a few hundred protesters scattered throughout the city. More than 180 of them were arrested by early Monday evening, mostly on disorderly conduct charges.Photo Credits: (Marcus Yam/The New York Times), (John Minchillo/AP), (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP), (John Moore/Getty Images), (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
