Occupy Wall St - What they are saying in Europe

From Europe With Love: U.S. 'Indignados' Occupy Wall Street

As the momentum surrounding the Occupy Wall Street protest grows, so too has the urge to frame it in the context of other struggles around the world. Already, Zuccotti Park, the patch of Lower Manhattan taken over for weeks now by the protesters, has been hailed as an American Tahrir Square, a font for a “U.S. autumn” as that plaza in Cairo was for the Arab Spring. Days of action and protest have been dubbed “days of rage,” a gesture to recent, far bloodier episodes of dissent on the streets of Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and elsewhere in the Middle East. 

When some 700 activists were detained while marching across the Brooklyn Bridge over the weekend, they were, according to some reports, “kettled” — a tactic used by London's Metropolitan Police against student demonstrators frequently over this past year. And a colleague of mine asked whether the protesters were the left's answer to the far-right U.S. Tea Party.

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