On Tuesday morning, police raided the two-month-old Occupy Wall Street encampment at Zuccotti Park, forcing protesters to various parts of Lower Manhattan. Here is a live map of tweets from location-enabled mobile devices using the #ows hashtag. Use the arrows at the top to scroll through a timeline of the removal. To contribute to the map, turn on the geolocation feature on your mobile device and use the tag #ows.
New York World reporter Alice Brennan (@alicitabrennan) is covering today’s hearing in State Supreme Court, and we’ve teamed up with The Brooklyn Ink, whose Olivia Waxman (@obwax) is also at the courthouse.
The Brooklyn Ink reporters in the field are:
Andrew Katz: @katz
Daphnee Denis: @daphneedenis
Anna Hiatt: @ahiatt
Ravi Kumar: @ravinepal
Emily Judem: @ejudem
Omar Akhtar: @obakhtar
This live map is now closed but you can read our related series investigating privately owned public spaces.
A Two Million Unity Rally Aimed at Gathering Together America’s Disenfranchised Middle Class, including labor unions, the unemployed, and progressive groups; to address various urgent issues afflicting them including: unemployment, anti-labor laws, women’s rights, gay rights, separation of church and state and fraudulent bank foreclosures, is currently in the planning stages by various power movements. If successful, this would be the largest rally in the history of the United States of America. The rally is being planned for October, before the 2012 elections. http://solidarityus.org