OWS Marks Six Month Anniversary of Brooklyn Bridge Arrests

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http://www.thenation.com/blog/167151/ows-marks-six-month-anniversary-brooklyn-bridge-arrests



Last fall, Occupy Wall Street was a fledgling protest movement that few took very seriously, but then two events occurred that quickly and dramatically threw the group into the national spotlight.

An NYPD officer named Anthony Bologna single-handedly turned OWS protesters into a symbol of martyrdom when he pepper-sprayed peaceful young women who were protesting at an October Union Square rally.

Earlier that same month, 700 protesters were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge in one of the largest mass arrests of nonviolent protesters in US history.

Suddenly, everyone wanted to talk about Occupy.