the be. three to one action occupy wall street protesters call for a day of unity and protests squaring off with police in zuccotti park standing their ground in los angeles and marching to the key bridge in the nation's capital he is on the ground from coast to coast we'll have live reports from los angeles new york and right here in washington d.c. . it's a good idea to the idea that we're did i get one percent of americans that you know we need to resist the idea that it would serve but it would reduce the corporations that idea is certainly spreading from a small rally against wall street to

a movement that united sauza means a lot has changed since the occupy wall street protests began we'll take a look back at its determine start an uncertain future. it's thursday november seventeenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching artsy well from coast to coast occupy wall street protesters storming u.s. cities today today is the two month anniversary of the movement and protesters are commemorating it with what they are calling a day of action in new york city where it all began they aim to shut down wall street occupy transportation hubs and the brooklyn bridge once again it turned violent as police crackdown and arrests dozens. what. was.

well you can see the chaotic scene here of police decked out in riot gear dragging and arresting protesters and we have some disturbing video police arresting a woman take a walk. with. a girl obviously in pain there's struggling on the ground as police restrained her these violent images becoming an all too familiar sight over the past few months since the movement has progressed well r.t. has been covering this story from day one we have correspondents in all the movements hot spots around the country it's a bring us the latest on the stasi a cherokee and i was in new york ramon glendower in los angeles and christine preserve our right here in washington d.c. on a stasi i will start with you what is happening there in new york right

now. well liz i have to see that it looks like the occupy wall street movement has definitely gathered momentum a lot of people were saying that two days after the eviction from zuccotti park some of the power of the movement may die down the numbers of people out on the streets made die down but we have been seeing that that is certainly not been the case this morning started with hundreds and thousands of protesters coming out onto the streets in lower manhattan some very graphic videos popping up all over the web throughout the day and we're bringing our viewers all the latest video clips from the ground some brutal arrests people being dragged and pushed and shoved we've we've heard that one woman was her neck was stepped on we're hearing that many journalists even are being very brutally treated down on the ground throughout today and over the last couple of days over twenty journalists have been arrested by police as many as up to one hundred seventy five point

a rest have taken place today already and all of this of course comes two months exactly into the occupy wall street movement that kick started here in new york city and spread leaders throughout most of the united states and around the south there was an estimated turnout of tens of thousands what would you say the turnout is there today. well so far we know that it's definitely thousands of people live but this is a day of bands a day of action and because there are so many different locations involved for the occupiers they're going they started at zuccotti park they went to the new york stock exchange some more crowds joined there and we are expecting protests to take place in subways and parks outside the mayor's headquarters here in new york city as well as a lock across the brooklyn bridge so those numbers are really likely to keep growing and expanding and it could it is very likely that the numbers world and might as well end up reaching tens of thousands of people throughout the day and as

you just mentioned they vowed to shut down wall street how far did they get an act accomplishing that goal. well you know it's interesting a lot of people were saying that these occupiers would not be able to do this at all they do is camped out at zuccotti park but certainly today we've seen dozens if not hundreds of people hold hands on wall street and some of the wall street bankers trying to get through those human barricades and were not able to get into their offices so certainly the calls to occupy wall street did become quite a reality here on the ground today. and i'm going to shift this now over a year how have events unfolded over there and. it really is well here in los angeles there are also a series of events happening throughout the day currently just a few minutes ago i was watching a live feed of a march going through the streets of downtown which again have been shut down near city hall at least three people were arrested during the march that's happening

currently right now by riot police now earlier today we have video from a march that went through the financial district of los angeles where demonstrators set up tents and display civil disobedience in the middle of the street trying to shut down one of the busiest streets of the financial district and showing the world that they are in solidarity with occupy wall street and all the other protest movements going on around the country which are protesting corporate greed and wall street and the bailouts and i'm over here in washington d.c. christie and what was the scene like at macpherson square and when we actually mark and fire away from here and it's not my job. that's mine and i'm not occupied this entire grads ah if you want to thank you for coming here that probably and asking people about. this modern day traffic is actually filing.

day traffic was stopped when they first got here leave is that really the big story here about two hundred protesters participating in this. is mark. warner. here in the. police in the river making sure does happen i think this is really a testament and what he has said d.c. apart from the rest of the occupy movement the protesters stopped like they've really been working with only certainly not a negative as it turned out in on not in new york. just a couple hundred here but they are getting on the air and making. making sure that that message gets bad. as you said the occupy d.c. does that itself apart from some of the other protests where things have gotten a little bit more violent has it been mostly peaceful have we seen any arrests or

any clashes at all in these secrets and i live i have not even seen a pair of handcuffs come out i haven't seen any police baton police were ready they were ready for anything and we were sort of keeping our eye on the bridge whether or not protesters were going to leave and go to the streets and try to take it over as you know this is one of the major i was in and out of town i'm facing the genyen heathfield i mean a lot of people use this grates you get you in from work so it really good to think that if they went and i did take it over and i just stopped traffic right now we have nothing like that i think it's that. the city getting by waiting for anything to happen and a very different scene over a new york city where police brutality has been a recurring theme throughout the two months that this move men has been happening on a stasi a can you go in so what kind of police crackdown you have seen today. liz definitely we've seen hundreds of hundreds of police officers in lower manhattan earlier today

we know that with all the crackdowns with all the arrests that were taking place even some of the police officers themselves ended up getting hurt but mostly the concern for the people down at occupy wall street is that so many people have been brutally treated during these arrests oftentimes this took place over protesters did was trust stepped off a curb or are people filming video of the protests were really getting shoved and pushed about so certainly this is a big concern especially with journalists now also being targeted we've been hearing that the line really between journalists and protesters has largely been a race to especially today and with the media. cross the brooklyn bridge where as if you remember as many as are almost eight hundred people got a rest of the day closer to the beginning of the protest with this march expected to take place later in the day today we are expecting that unfortunately for the protesters more police brutality could take place today is really

a landmark day for the occupy wall street movement it's the two month anniversary and they're calling it this day of action they really were really high hopes for everybody to unite and really turn out in big numbers so far is this a success for the move men. well you know it's hard to see you know i'm sure a lot of people would have different opinions but i have to see that a lot of critics and skeptics were really certain that the movement would die down when occupy wall street camp got set up here in new york two months ago people were saying well these folks are not going to last that long it's going to get cold it's going to get read the police brutality will scare them away the eviction will scare them away and certainly as we're seeing today this is not been the case people stayed out rain or shine day or night with their chance removed with the eviction having taken place they're still there they're growing in numbers their numbers are spreading throughout the united states so it looks like these folks are here to

stay and the occupy movement. is for through their eyes i'm sure is a success and what about over there los angeles ramona what is the sentiment over there is this day. as successful as they were hoping it said before the movement over there and now a. here in los angeles we saw. several hundred to a thousand people at the rally this morning and while i asked many of them what do you hope to accomplish do you think that this is going to make a difference now many people have their own causes where they say that they want congress to hold wall street accountable they want taxes on the rich to be higher but for the most part they feel that this is very successful for them because this is changing the national conversation as far as how our politics work and how our economics work in this country now here in occupy l.a.

we also have the unique difference where the police have not been as brutal as they have been in new york city however today's show of force with something like one hundred riot police shows that the city here is willing to show a very strong police force in order to keep these protests at bay but so far with these things happening in new york we have protests happening in san diego important here on the west because it seems like the protesters do seem like do feel like they're getting the message out and as they see more and more groups show their solidarity they do feel like these demonstrations are becoming a success says it may be just be a small success today but they are hoping to keep the message going and you know a lot of this. a lot of this is being fueled by what happened earlier this week in park where police event there are people there where they've been camped out for

the past two months how much is that kind of compelling protest there isn't and other parts of the country to also rise out and respond to what's going on in new york which is really the perfect place on this whole movement. that's for your mom i'm sorry was that for me that was yeah well you know some a lot of the people that i talked to really you know some of them were willing to get arrested one of the women who i talked to who was arrested today said you know we have to show solidarity with occupy wall street but not only that she had a very specific story she said she has been living the american dream she's the daughter of immigrants she's able to go to college and get a job but she sees that her younger siblings will not be able to live that american dream in her opinion she sees the rising cost of tuition the inability of people to find work in this economy so when we see crackdowns in occupy wall street when we

see people more and more people being affected by the economic crisis now we're going to continue to see hear more and more stories of this and more and more stories of people willing to be arrested people willing to show their solidarity in the streets while this story certainly is changing by the matter by the hour what can we expect to unfold in the coming hours chris what is and so are there for today and try and i know this is the protesters that are planning to remain on the queue grounds in tell six o'clock this evening they said they wanted everyone leaving work to see their spines to see their presence i think you know to your earlier question to the others i am has really been such a smaller turnout here i have than they expected between the top of the scene protests and on freedom plaza my d.c. protest and experience where i know that they were probably expecting a lot more people as i mentioned about two hundred more out here as far as what

their plan is and they're just kind of thing here they've been marking up and down the red eye as some of them have gone to the other side of the bridge where you also can see once again it's a lot of police officers just sort of standing with not sure if they had an exact plan in terms of what they were going to do one thing got here they were standing there all these nine chances i want to to mention. i don't want that take that's here from affairs where you walk up and street which is in georgetown law very expensive store in georgetown and it was really interesting to see some of the store owners come stand outside not sure what to make of these protesters coming descending upon these very stores where you know i think it's fair to say all but one percent probably spend some time but i thank you so much for keeping us updated that was correspondent christine. churkin on. well it all. but we're going to turn it now to marina poor and she has been

following this move and she's been in the heart of the action over the park and she joins us now live. hi there live i'm arena nice to see you what is the latest over there on the ground the us. right now it was almost like a relatively peaceful type of environment because we've been here since it was seven am and as the days progress the occupy movement has ship is north of manhattan but this morning there were thousands of police officers so many of them dressed in riot gear all over lower manhattan here on wall street as thousands of activists came out to begin their all day demonstrations they began as you guys have already been talking about trying to shut down the new york stock exchange and the ration. throughout this area here in wall street things got very

very aggressive moments between the police officers and the activists there were incidents of men and women being toppled to the ground and handcuffed and arrested as you guys already been discussing there were incidents of even a journalist journalist was tackled to the ground dragged and arrested after police point it's not clear why she was arrested a lot of people were arrested one demonstrators took their march from the sidewalk to the street probably the most violent images that we saw were in the park where one activist as an eyewitness told us when we show this is the cockles by. about five or more police officers and according to eyewitness he was beaten and then on hancock's and drives away what was last is what we filmed that was of one of his that was left behind there was a lot of yours is a lot on the ground later on

a picture of. what was it a local newspaper the a blood dripping all over. it was doc what provoked that incident but you are talking about the parties marking the. product. of the people aroud up there at the up to the city felt as if not voting shares enough of the rolling for boxes out of the park so it's not as easy to argue off your pajamas for the solidarity. for a couple of the people now but as this movement has been progressing despite the clashes and the crackdown by authorities the opposite puppets are making their way both ways occupy the subways uses a mouse join the movement and about how our. federal lever unions will join

stodgy occupy activists out of our five cities all from there they will proceed over the brooklyn bridge my colleague on the far future can already mentioned out of that and mentioned also what topic a lot of them are simply with a solution which things have been sent you stop a lot of the rest of the work of at least one hundred seventy five people arrested so corpus is moving literally two months and it's pioneering on one hundred seventy five people arrested today just in new york city. is that correct that's right just that's the before part we're getting about the reports of we're getting our so far and i mean that number may be underestimated and i'm certainly it seems very chaotic we could barely hear there for a while under all the police sirens very quickly we will continue to follow this story very closely all day what can we expect in the coming hours today.

well. the action is continuing i think the missing posters to keep an eye on the sea and on to be able to leave iraq but will members of the leverage and so it was joined in this movement because as you know my colleagues have spoken about you know this movement was disregarded in the beginning and now it's become known nationally and internationally and it's been copied all those with the u.s. so if this. is the lever union sure the march will be the brooklyn bridge if the police come out the activists we may see it pasha we may see how strong this movement is but you can bet on the fact that we will be covering it and updating our viewers as more information becomes marina thank you so much for bringing us the latest i was already correspondent marina pour in iowa and this all comes on the two month anniversary since the movement sparked since it all began the two months ago we've seen it all from a small grassroots protest to an all out national and even global events it's won

the backing of labor groups and been a target of ridicule for much of the mainstream media argues marina for an eye and takes a look back at the evolving movement. in the financial capital of the world a movement called occupy wall street is poor in eight short weeks the fight against us corporate greed and wealth inequality manifests in all fifty states i don't i am a american movement not seen since the sixty's as the power of the people grows louder police case strong peaceful activists beaten by the tons blinded by nice and thrown to the ground unarmed activists pitch tents law enforcement flash grenades. of the fear and fear. don't you. think that

there are. people like you fighting their democratic right or. so i was. there. it was over you but and so they go and with this. or that help you. get them to sit there is it looks like a lucky thousands of occupy activists have been jailed throughout the two month campaign the mass arrest of eight hundred on the brooklyn bridge garnered international attention but this image of an eighty four year old former schoolteacher pepper sprayed during a demonstration captures the crackdown activists face brought to a boiling point by economic injustice and a political system failing the majority protesters demonstrated unprecedented resilience. and then u.s. authorities began occupying the occupations one by one activist under the pretext

of how for safety concerns a raid on the headquarters in new york came at one am hundreds of armed officers destroying and displacing. the heart of this democratic movement you can addicted idea to the idea that we are that i could i percent of americans that you know we need to resist the good points of financial institutions the corporations like record of just those messages that are being spread around the country every time that the authorities come in and try to make some type of offensive strike in a cowardly way at one am without any warning it shows the public support for this because the numbers in the streets doubled the next day people come out out and determined to carry on what began as an occupation in a park has grown into a national movement fighting for principles from wall street to times square support for the occupy movement has cost the streets uniting tens of thousands of strangers bound by common hardship and frustration two months in there is no

denying the grassroots movement has become a brand of the big apple and the social marker in america arena for an i.r.c. new york. also ahead here on arts here from no jobs to poverty and corporate greed americans aren't the only ones upset over inequality and the new poverty standards have enraged the people the story next. but in future and i believe me when i was like nine years old i'm just you know look through. the confession i am a little get a friend that i love dr because he's like the and. it was kind of a. i'm very aware of the all the belgians it's

completely. live. well as a u.s. residence protest corruption and corporate greed the case is much different in n.z. our government there are things that people can live on less than a dollar a day but is that it also certainly doesn't sound like at r.t. correspondent priya sridhar explains. for. india's capital city the sights and sounds of one of the world's fastest growing economies are everywhere. but intermingled with the new malls and shopping developments slums like this one are still home to about forty million people many of the people who live here however don't even count as being port thanks to a new cap a nation that has moved india's poverty line thirty per day or fixed it that romney

was works twelve hours six days a week as a top aide to make up to two dollars per day he sends most of his money back to his village to support a wife and three children he left behind the fact that his country doesn't classify him as poor is shocking to him but you couldn't thirty two rupees are the benchmark to decide the poverty line is wrong because one cannot do anything without amounts someone like me who makes three thousand rupees per month finds it hard to survive here how could someone who are only thirty two can survive the people behind the nation say that it's simply an adjustment based on the current economic climate according to them the new definition actually means that there are class people living in poverty in india than twenty years ago when almost half of all indians were living below the poverty line they also claim it has no impact on who can access government welfare services and many people above the poverty line also i mean they're not it's not as if you know if you're the poverty line you're poor and

from got one rupee more than the rich we have to do a lot for them and that's what our strategy is but new data also suggests those living in poverty should get by on the equivalent of two dollars per month for their health and education sparking outrage across india where do you feed your family where do you look after your kids where you send them for education how is not that anywhere close to the poverty line. thirty thirty rupees but allah is also not good enough forget about the day in a piece like that he does know we could have a good reason for now a new law says the debate over the poverty line is meaningless in his life he just wants to be able to support his family but say i am to go ahead i'm going to it's not that i'm not my only wish for my future is that i continue doing this work of mine without any hindrance from anyone or anything as long as the government doesn't interfere i'll continue doing his business to feed and educate my kids

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