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Members of the Occupy Wall Street movement vowed to reoccupy Zuccotti Park after police forcibly removed them early this morning before sanitation crews came into the park to clean it.

Police officials told The New York Times that about 150 people were arrested - most in the park but some outside.

Demonstrators were told they could return in several hours, but without sleeping bags, tarps or tents. By eight a.m. some protesters had returned, jumping over barricades. But the police closed the park again.

Hundreds of other protesters and their supporters marched through lower Manhattan to Foley Square, near City Hall, chanting, "This is what democracy looks like."

The group vowed to reoccupy Zuccotti Park...

...The group is also calling for a "Day on Action" on Thursday, November 17 - the two-month anniversary since the Occupy movement began - to shut down Wall Street and occupy 16 subway stations across the city. At 5 p.m., protesters will gather at Foley Square, before marching to bridges - promising music along the way. [CBS]

Thursday, November 17th is now officially the "International Day of Action". A full schedule for NYC protesters is posted at their site, and it includes:

At 5 pm, tens of thousands of people will gather at Foley Square (just across from City Hall) in solidarity with laborers demanding jobs to rebuild this country's infrastructure and economy. A gospel choir and a marching band will also be performing.

Afterwards we will march to our bridges. Let's make it as musical a march as possible - bring your songs, your voice, your spirit! Our "Musical" on the bridge will culminate in a festival of light as we mark the two-month anniversary of the #occupy movement, and our commitment to shining light into our broken economic and political system.

That's the poster above.

Video of Joan Baez playing for Occupy Wall Street at Foley Square on 11/11, below...

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by Black Bubblegum

Nas at Fox News - July 23, 2008 (ColorOfChange.Org)

Nasty Nas showed up in Midtown yesterday, for a little while at least. Nas lead a protest by ColorOfChange.Org at the house O'Reilly built (aka Fox News) in order to hand deliver a petition of 620,127 signatures charging the network with racist reporting. The petition alleges that the network is inherently racist, pointing to several incidents involving Barack Obama and his treatment by the network. The incidents in question include referring to Michelle Obama as "Obama's baba mama", alluding to the assassination of Obama, and referring to the infamous onstage fist pound as a "terrorist fist jab" (an obvious Obama-Osama dig).

Nas said, "Fox poisons the country with racist propaganda and tries to call it news". Fox News responded, "Fox News believes in all protesters exercising their right to free speech including Nas who has an album to promote."

After the protest, Nas showed up at The Colbert Report to discuss "papa bear" (Colbert's nickname for O'Reilly) and Fox News, as well as perform "Sly Fox" (about guess what), a song from his new album titled, um, Untitled. Nas & Bill O'Reilly have been feuding, with Nas even challenging him to a debate.

Ah... Nasty Nas. Now, if we can just get him to show up on record again.

Nas is touring with Talib Kweli, including one date at Rock The Bells with A Tribe Called Quest at Jones Beach and another far more intimate one at Toad's Place in New Haven, CT. Nas's former co-conspirator AZ is playing the Knitting Factory with Sadat X (but you can call him X-Man).

Fox News & Colbert Report videos below...

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inside the John Varvatos store (Hardcore Shutterbug)

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More pics like the 4 above @ othergroundnyc's Flickr. More good ones HERE & HERE.

I didn't see many Amy Winehouses.