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"Occupy Wall Street, the social media-spawned movement that has gone viral across the U.S., turned violent Friday morning after the New York City mayor's office announced cleanup of Zuccotti Park would begin at 7 a.m. Protesters have held their ground in lower Manhattan since Sept. 17, and though this morning's arrests are not the first, many across the web say the movement is heating up. \nWord of the cleanup came Thursday afternoon, when Zuccotti Park owner Brookfield Properties stated they would spend Friday cleaning the location, which had become unsanitary. Following protester outrage that the cleanup would ultimately lead to eviction, Brookfield agreed to delay the park's cleanup until a mutual agreement could be reached.\nThe empowered protesters, confidences boosted for postponing the cleanup, rallied behind the cry, \"The people will never be defeated,\" as they headed toward the stock exchange. Clashes ensued as police tried to keep protesters from marching down Wall Street. Police arrested protesters waving brooms (brought for park cleaning) and throwing bottles. One protestor reportedly threw a garbage can.   \nSeveral videos, including the one above, have been uploaded to YouTube, with comments such as \"Largest Occupy Wall Street crowd I've seen.\" As more videos are uploaded, and subsequently spread across the social web, the grassroots movement is further resembling this year's Arab Spring.\nThe Occupy Wall Street movement, dubbed the \"American Fall,\" originated when AdBusters asked if the U.S. was ready to begin a Tahrir moment Sept. 17, protesting \"Wall Street, the financial Gomorrah of America.\" And thus, the hashtag #OCCUPYWALLSTREET was born July 13.\nSome of the most discussed tweets this morning come from big names like Silicon Valley wiz kid Sean Parker and business mogul Russell Simmons, showing how mainstream the protest movement has become. Take a look at what people are saying about OWS on Twitter this morning.\n\n\n#OWS Tweets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n@UncleRUSH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n@sparker\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n@studentactivism\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n@bilald\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n@juanmabenitez\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n@roblathan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n@stefan41\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n@saraziff\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThumbnail image courtesy of Flickr, The Whistling Monkey"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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