Some of the most recent noteworthy happenings:
- Individual posters have been writing about and taking pictures of their own experiences during the protests. A first-person account of being arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge is here; an interview with Fox News that Fox won't be running anytime soon is here.
- After three busses were commandeered Saturday to transport arrested protestors on the Blooklyn Bridge, the Transport Workers Union is going to court to prevent their members from being forced to transport arrested protestors in the future.
- 1199 SEIU is providing food and medical training to the protestors. The protests continue to attract union support in general.
- Chris Bowers is helping to start a resource page for "Occupy" events around the country. If you know of an event not listed, let him know in the comments there; if you're looking for local events, that's a good place to start.
- The White House weighs in, sort of:
CARNEY: I haven’t discussed [the protests] with him. I’m sure he’s aware of it because he follows the news. I would simply say that, to the extent that people are frustrated with the economic situation, we understand. And that’s why we’re so urgently trying to focus Congress’s attention on the need to take action on the economy and job creation.
- Some unexpected help from a large public relations firm.
- From BBC News:
Billionaire investor George Soros says he can sympathise with the ongoing protests on Wall Street, which have spread to other US cities.
He said he understood the anger at the use of taxpayers' cash to prop up stricken banks, allowing them to earn huge profits. [...]
Answering questions during a news conference at UN headquarters on Monday, Mr Soros said: "The decision not to inject capital into the banks, but to effectively relieve them of their bad assets and then allow them to earn their way out of a hole leaves the banks bumper profits and then allows them to pay bumper bonuses."
- Greg Mitchell has been liveblogging Occupy-related events here.
- The next Occupy Wall Street march is planned for Wednesday afternoon.