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LA protesters defy eviction efforts, go to court (AP)

Wall Street protesters dance to music as they remain at the camp in front of Los Angeles City Hall in Los Angeles on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa stated Friday that the protestors's campsite will be dismantled, beginning at 12:01 a.m. Monday. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond)AP – For now, Wall Street protesters camped out on the Los Angeles City Hall lawn still have their tent city after defying a deadline to pack up and clear out. “Still occupied,” read the sign of a protester up in a tree.


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Occupy Los Angeles protesters defy mayor

Wall Street protesters in Los Angeles defied the mayor’s early Monday deadline to vacate their encampment near City Hall, with about 1,000 flooding into the area as hundreds of tents remained standing as they have for nearly two months.

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Tenn. protesters defy curfew a 3rd time (AP)

An arrested woman watches from the ground of the Legislative Plaza in Nashville, Tenn., on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011, while one of her fellow protesters is led away by state troopers. It was the second straight night of arrests after Republican Gov. Bill Haslam imposed a curfew on areas surrounding the Capitol in an effort to disband a three-week demonstration by Wall Street protesters. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)AP – Occupy Wall Street protesters and state officials in Tennessee squared off for a third consecutive night Saturday, even though a local judge has consistently refused to jail the demonstrators.


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Tenn. protesters to defy curfew a 3rd time (AP)

An arrested woman watches from the ground of the Legislative Plaza in Nashville, Tenn., on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011, while one of her fellow protesters is led away by state troopers. It was the second straight night of arrests after Republican Gov. Bill Haslam imposed a curfew on areas surrounding the Capitol in an effort to disband a three-week demonstration by Wall Street protesters. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)AP – Occupy Wall Street protesters and state officials in Tennessee squared off for a third consecutive night Saturday, even though a local judge has consistently refused to jail the demonstrators and said the state lacks the authority to set a curfew on the property.


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Murdochs defy parliament in phone hack inquiry (AP)

Back-dropped by an exit sign cameras are aimed at Chairman of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch, obscured at left, as he leaves News International's office in London, Wednesday, July 13, 2011. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. media empire dropped its bid to takeover lucrative British Sky Broadcasting (BskyB) on Wednesday ahead of a House of Commons vote in which all three major parties were to issue that demand. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)AP – Media titan Rupert Murdoch and his son James refused Thursday to appear in public next week before a parliamentary committee investigating phone hacking and bribery by employees of their British media empire, whose chief executive said that she would address the committee.


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Syrian protesters defy Assad government; 42 killed (AP)

In this citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and acquired by the AP, Syrian protesters carry banners in Arabic and Kurdish that call for a democratic nation as they demonstrate in the northeastern town of Qamishli, Syria, Friday, April 29, 2011. Thousands of Syrians chanting 'We don't love you!' and 'We aren't afraid!' took to the streets Friday, calling for President Bashar Assad's downfall and pledging support for the besieged southern city of Daraa where army tanks and snipers are trying to crush the six-week uprising, witnesses said. Other demonstrations were reported across the country in areas including the capital, Damascus, and its outskirts, the central city of Homs, Banias and Latakia on the coast, the northern cities of Raqqa and Hama, and Qamishli in the northeast. (AP Photo)AP – Thousands of defiant Syrians chanting “We are not afraid!” were met by security forces firing bullets and tear gas Friday in a crackdown on nationwide protests that left 42 people dead — many of them villagers trying to break an army blockade of the southern city where the six-week uprising began.


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Protesters defy deadline to leave Wis. Capitol (AP)

Sean Conard, left, of Green Bay, Wis., and Shyla Deacon of Milwaukee cheer during protests at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011. Protests to the governor's bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers are in their 12th day. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)AP – A few hundred pro-union protesters left the Wisconsin Capitol peacefully on Sunday, but police stood by as hundreds more remained in defiance of a deadline state officials set for clearing the building after a nearly two-week-long sit-in.


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