Inspired by Wall Street protests, students walkout nationwide

Students at schools across the country voiced grievances about rocketing student debt and spiraling job opportunities.

Students at schools across the country voiced grievances about rocketing student debt and spiraling job opportunities.

The UpTake are in New York City providing a livestream of the Wall Street occupation.
Former Wisconsin U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold has also endorsed the demonstrators, saying that by the time the protests are over that they will make the Tea Party look like a “tea party.”

Protesters are planning to rename Minneapolis’ Hennepin County Government Plaza as “The People’s Plaza,” according to the group’s website.
A Wisconsin Democratic state senator said allowing Walker to adjust campaign policies would be like giving him control of the chicken coop.
Union members were locked out by American Crystal Sugar after they overwhelmingly rejected a contract proposal at the end of July.
Much of the funding came from outside special interest groups that don’t have to disclose their donors.
Protesters sought to influence the president on a range of issues, from climate change to the nation’s economy.
An online boycott of an Edina car wash that’s allowed a controversial youth ministry that activists say has taken anti-gay stances to fundraise on their property has spread to three of the company’s other locations.

Protesters at a Wednesday Minnesotans for a Fair Economy rally outside Wells Fargo’s Minneapolis office donned huge puppet masks bearing the faces of Reps. Michele Bachmann, John Kline and Erik Paulsen, claiming they’re killing jobs and refusing to give up their “piece of the pie.”