The Occupy Wall Street protest grows daily, spreading to cities across the United States. "We are the 99 per cent," the protesters say, "that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1 percent."
Volunteer attorneys steer Occupy protesters through the legal system
Tom Pugh
McClatchy
October 13, 2011
WASHINGTON — As copycat Occupy Wall Street encampments around the country confront the inevitable legal tangles that come with a nationwide sit-in style protest, a growing army of First Amendment-loving lawyers is shepherding the demonstrators through the legal system at no charge.
Growing numbers of protesters are being arrested for trespassing, failure to disperse and disobeying a lawful order, as city after city confronts the question of whether individual rights to free speech and assembly include the right to camp out on public property.