FREDERICK — Occupy Frederick members are trying to call attention to the local impact of the foreclosure crisis. The Frederick News-Post reports that about 15 to 20 people braved below freezing temperatures as the group set up tents next to ...

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“Assembly” is a First Amendment freedom that typically doesn’t get much attention from the public, or from most constitutional experts, for that matter. Just 14 percent of Americans in the latest State of the First Amendment survey by the First ...

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WASHINGTON — Drenched, blistered and weary, a few dozen Occupy Wall Street protesters arrived Tuesday in the nation’s capital after a two-week, 240-mile march from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan. The marchers, many wearing hooded ponchos in a steady rain, ...

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NEW YORK — Hundreds of police officers in riot gear raided the Occupy Wall Street encampment in New York City in the pre-dawn darkness Tuesday, evicted hundreds of protesters and then demolished the tent city, leaving the future of the ...

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DOVER, Del. — Occupy Delaware protesters can use a downtown plaza in Wilmington as they see fit pending a hearing Friday in a lawsuit claiming that the city is violating their rights of assembly and free speech, a Chancery Court ...

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NEW YORK — Flanked by police scooters, about two dozen Occupy Wall Street protesters started a two-week walk from New York to Washington on Wednesday. The activists left Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, marched past the World Trade Center site and boarded ...

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