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Police arrest protesters near Wall Street during a demonstration on the anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement on Sept. 17.

NBC News: Looking to reignite their movement on its one-year anniversary, several hundred Occupy Wall Street activists protested in lower Manhattan Monday, staging a sit-in near the iconic New York Stock Exchange and swarming through the streets in costumes and toting American flags and signs. Full Story

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Occupy Wall Street protesters circulate through the financial district trying to disrupt business on Sept. 17.

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Protesters chant during an Occupy Wall Street march Sept. 17 in New York.

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The Occupy Wall Street marchers make their way from Washington Square park to Zuccotti Park on Sept. 15 at the start of three days of activities to mark the one year anniversary of the start of the movement in New York.

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The Occupy Wall Street march commences on Sept. 15 at Washington Square Park in New York.

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NYPD officers shadow the Occupy Wall Street protesters as they march down Broadway on Sept. 15.

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Tempers flared after the NYPD made their first arrest on Sept. 15 during the Occupy Wall Street protesters' first march of the weekend from Washington Square Park to Zuccotti Park.

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Occupy Wall street protesters make their way to Broadway at the start of their Sept. 15 march to Zuccotti Park, the first planned march as part of three days of events to mark the one year anniversary of the movement.

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Veteran James Hegler, center, is arrested by NYPD officers at Zuccotti park for trespassing after he refused to move his backpack for the private security firm that oversees the park on Friday Sept. 14. Hegler was release in about five hours and friends secured his belongings for him. A fellow Occupy protester records Hegler's information at right.

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Dennis and Elizabeth Carbone still come to Zuccotti park a couple times a week. Elizabeth would like to see an around-the-clock presence by fellow Occupy protesters.

As they gather to recognize the anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement, activists face several challenges. Competing agendas, leaderless organization and dwindling participation have hampered the efforts but some accomplishments have surfaced.  For more on this story click here to read the latest post by NBC News' Miranda Leitsinger.

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Occupy Wall Street protester Brandon Crozier holds up a sign at the corner of Wall Street and Nassau Street, across the street from the New York Stock Exchange, in the Financial District in New York on April 12.

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A man walks past Occupy Wall Street protesters at the corner of Wall Street and Nassau Street on April 12. A group of protesters have slept at the corner for the past three nights.

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Occupy Wall Street protester Yoni Miller, right, speaks to a police officer at the corner of Wall Street and Nassau Street, across the street from the New York Stock Exchange, in the Financial District in New York on April 12.

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Occupy Wall Street protesters read a book on the steps of Federal Hall in the Financial District in New York on April 12. The protesters have slept at the corner Wall Street and Nassau Street, near the New York Stock Exchange, for the past three nights.

 

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Occupy Wall Street protesters march through the streets of the Financial District during a "Spring Training" exercise in New York on April 6. Organizers say the training is meant to teach people how to protest, avoid law enforcement and stay safe.

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A policeman stands in front of protesters during the march.

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Occupy Wall Street protesters during the "Spring Training" exercise on April 6 in New York.

A protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask outside the New York Stock Exchange during the exercise.

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Austin Guest, an Occupy Wall Street protestor, is arrested during the "Spring Training" exercise on April 6 in New York.

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NYPD officers confront Occupy Wall Street protesters who are camping in Union Square in New York in the early hours of March 21, 2012.

Police confronted Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York's Union Square just after midnight on Wednesday morning, forcing them to vacate their newly-established camp in the park.

Officers, who cited a usually unenforced rule that the park be closed overnight, made one arrest, according to a report in The New York Post.

On Saturday, police detained 73 people after hundreds of Occupy supporters gathered in Zuccotti Park to mark six months since the start of the movement.

"What's the long-term plan here, NYPD? To close every park in NYC to the entire public forever? That'll go over well," tweeted activist Carrie M.

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People affiliated with the OWS movement stand beneath a banner after being ordered to stop camping in Union Square on March 21, 2012.

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A man affiliated with OWS yells at police officers before the NYPD confronted protesters in Union Square on March 21, 2012.

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Workers clear tents and belongings of Occupy DC demonstrators from McPherson Square in Washington, Feb. 5. Police removed protesters as they confiscated bedding and most tents on Saturday from an "Occupy" protest site just blocks from the White House, enforcing a no-camping rule for the public McPherson Square they had ignored for months.

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A rat scurries next to a tent as US National Park Service workers remove debris from the site of the Occupy DC encampment Feb. 5, in McPherson Square in Washington, DC.

Authorities said 11 people have been arrested in Washington's McPherson Square since Park Police began clearing away tents from one of the nation's last remaining Occupy sites.

David Schlosser, who is a spokesman for the U.S. Park Police, said Sunday that one of those arrested was charged with felony assault on a police officer and assault with a deadly weapon. That person is accused of hitting an officer in the face with a brick Saturday evening. The officer was treated at a hospital.

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Sanitation workers in bio hazard suits remove debris from the Occupy DC encampment in McPherson Square in Washington, DC, on Feb. 5.

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An overall view of McPherson Square in Washington, DC on Feb. 5, as National Park Service employees begin the clean-up of an Occupy DC camp.

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A US Park Police officer uses a limb saw to remove a mask of Guy Fawkes from a statue of James McPherson in McPherson Square Feb. 4, in Washington, DC.

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Wezel McClellan of Asheville, N.C., attends Occupy Congress on Jan. 17. Wezel, his daughter, and his grandchildren have been participating in the Occupy movement as a family.

WASHINGTON — Several hundred protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement converged on the West Lawn of the Capitol Tuesday to decry the influence of corporate money in politics and voice myriad other grievances.

Organizers had touted the rally, known as Occupy Congress, as the largest national gathering of Occupy protesters to date and secured a permit that would have allowed up to 10,000 people to participate. By mid-afternoon, the protest appeared to have fallen far short of those goals.

Still, participants said they were optimistic about the strength of the Occupy movement, which began in September when protesters pitched tents in a lower Manhattan park. - AP Report

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Rosetta Star of Asheville, N.C., and her daughter Petra Star, 8, attend Occupy Congress on Jan. 17. Star, her children, and her father have been participating in the Occupy movement as a family. "While I can't camp out with small children," says Star, "I'm involved by organizing information sessions in our community."

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Jack Amico of Occupy Wall Street in New York City attends Occupy Congress on Jan. 17. He brought this tear gas mask with him to be prepared, "I'm from New York and we're not used to police being so nice," he says.

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Shane Stoops of Washington state, who has been living in New York City as part of Occupy Wall Street, attends Occupy Congress on Jan. 17. "I just want better rights for people," says Stoops, "you're at least entitled to live properly. People deserve a job, and a good education."

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Rochelle Voyles of Brooklyn holds up her dye stained hands during the Occupy Congress rally on Jan. 17, 2012. Voyles is part of the Occupy Wall Street Silk Screen Guild and her hands had been dyed from free silk screening.

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Sisters Eve Bratman of Washington and Dara Hoppe of Chicago attend Occupy Congress on Jan. 17.

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Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, center right, walks back to his office amid chanting protesters after delivering his Conditions of the State address before a joint session of the Iowa Legislature, Jan. 10, 2012, at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa.

The DesMoines Register reported on Tuesday that the Governor Terry Branstad spoke to a joint session of the Iowa House and Senate for his annual Condition of the State address at the Iowa Capitol. His 2012 legislative program focuses on reducing commercial property taxes, creating high-quality jobs, developing a “supply chain cluster” of factories around major employers like Deere & Co. in Waterloo, and retaining Iowa businesses and careers.

The governor said the state has its finances “back in order” as a result of the 2011 legislative session. He praised state legislators for ending a dependency on one-time revenue, such as federal funds, and for paying for a balanced budget using ongoing revenue. In addition, he said the state has a two-year budget for most areas of state spending.

However, the Registers’s Jason Chalworth reported that some citizens were turned away from the House chambers and balconies during Gov. Terry Branstad’s Condition of the State speech.

There were Occupy-related protesters at the Capitol, some chanting loudly outside the chambers immediately before and after the speech. There were no interruptions to the speech.

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Occupy Wall Street protesters stand on barricades they took down and piled inside Zuccotti Park in the Manhattan borough of New York, Jan. 1.

Just as a record crowd ushered in the new year in New York's Times Square, Occupy Wall Street protesters returned to Zuccotti Park by the hundreds to reclaim the park and the area around it. 

After taking down metal barricades, piling them up and scuffling with police, protesters were soon kicked out of the park. Smaller groups splintered and started marching through the streets after being shoed from lower Manhattan. Police used pepper spray on protesters and a number of them were arrested.

Into the wee hours of the morning, groups of protesters marched north. Some hurled orange traffic barrels into the street, blocking traffic, though most of the demonstrations were peaceful. A seemingly high ratio of police to protesters monitored the groups' movement, keeping them on sidewalks and from obstructing traffic.

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An Occupy Wall Street protester hurls barrels into the middle of Broadway near Zuccotti Park in the Manhattan borough of New York, Jan. 1.

Scores of officers on foot, on scooters and in sundry vehicles closed streets to keep up with the group as traffic snarled.

There was a bizarre contrast between protesters and revelers out in force for New Years' celebrations. The group marched through Manhattan's West Village, an upscale neighborhood, loaded with as many drinking establishments as quiet residential streets.

By 3:00am, demonstrators had zig-zagged their way to the East Village.

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Police monitor a group of Occupy Wall Street protesters that marched to the West Village after being barred from Zuccotti Park in the Manhattan borough of New York on Jan. 1.

Polly Smith, 30, of Brooklyn, was celebrating New Years with friends and witnessed the roving band of police and protesters as they marched east towards 2nd Ave. 

"I was really surprised at the volume of the police response for what seemed like a relatively small organized protest. It was surprising to see [the protest] in that neighborhood. You would expect to see that in Times Square or downtown, but not right in the heart of a more low-key neighborhood."

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Police push back Occupy Wall Street protesters after they were cleared from Zuccotti Park in the Manhattan borough of New York, Jan. 1.

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NYPD officers push a fence back against activists as they try and gain entrance to the private park owned by Trinity Church next to Duarte Square at Sixth Avenue and Canal Street on Dec. 17, in New York City. Activists marked the three month anniversary to the Occupy Wall Street movement with speeches and performances in Durante Square.

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Retired Episcopal bishop George E. Packard, left, who is affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement, climbs a ladder to illegally enter Juan Pablo Duarte Square during a march in New York, Dec. 17.

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Bishop George Packard is under arrest after entering the privately owned area of Duarte Sqaure.

"This whole occupation has been a lesson in freedom for me," said Ashley Perry, 24, who traveled from her home in Tampa, Fla., to support her New York counterparts. "If you still think that you have your First Amendment rights, go out and try to express them… and see how long it takes for someone to come and shut you down -- it will happen quickly."

Earlier in the day, demonstrators played drums, cymbals and trombones, held group meetings and waved signs with a variety of messages -- "Disobedience is civil" and "Sorry to inconvenience your apathy" -- as they marked the completion of three months with a major direct action that they hoped would give them a new home as authorities continue to shutter camps nationwide. 

Protesters -- flanked by police officers -- coalesced on the nearly half-acre plot about one mile northwest of their former camp at Zuccotti Park. But their potential new landlord at Duarte Square, Trinity Church, had long voiced strong opposition.

"In all good conscience and faith, we strongly believe to do so would be wrong, unsafe, unhealthy and potentially injurious," its rector, The Rev. Dr. James H. Cooper, said in a statement dated Dec. 9 and posted to the church website. "The health, safety and security problems posed by an encampment here, compounded by winter weather, would dwarf those experienced at Zuccotti Park. Calling this an issue of 'political sanctuary' is manipulative and blind to reality."

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Occupy Wall Street protestors are shoved onto the street by police near Duarte Square after an effort to occupy the space they were previously removed from weeks prior, Dec. 17, in New York. While officers made arrests, protesters chanted obscenities and screamed: "Make them catch you!" About a thousand people gathered across the street at a city-owned park.