Occupy Wall Street Live Blog

New York activists have called for a new type of Occupy protest. They have called for an event they've called "Occupy the Egyptian Consulate", asking people to "assemble in front of the Egyptian Consulate in New York City at the above address [1110 Second Ave. – Suite 201 New York, NY 10022] at 5:00pm on Friday, December 2, to demand an end to violence against non-violent Egyptian protestors in Tahrir Square, throughout Egypt, and around the world."

The group says they are responding to a call from three Egyptian activist collectives (Mosireen, Comrades from Cairo, Defend the Revolution), that asked people around the world to "take action" in the following three ways:

• - Occupy / shut-down Egyptian embassies worldwide. Now they represent the junta ; reclaim them for the Egyptian people.
  - Shut down the arms dealers. Do not let them make it, ship it.
  - Shut down the part of your government dealing with the Egyptian junta.

A survey by the Associated Press news agency says the Occupy movement has cost at least $13 million since the protests started, mostly in the context of policing and paid by tax funds.

The data was collected from government agencies in 18 cities with active protests. The numbers reflect costs incurred through November 15, the day protesters were evicted from the New York City encampment.

The main financial cost has fallen upon law enforcement agencies tasked with monitoring marches and evicting protesters from outdoor camps.

The steepest costs were in New York and Oakland, California, where police clashed with protesters on several occasions.

The costs in each city are more or less in line with the price of policing major public events and emergencies. But the price of the protests is rising by the day.  [AP]

A few dozen protesters from Occupy Wall Street banged their drums outside the residence of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Sunday to protest the removal of an encampment in lower Manhattan.

Police cordoned off the street near Central Park, so protesters gathered on the edge of the park, beating on drums, buckets and pans.

"He paid us a visit, now we are paying him a visit," said demonstrator Aaron Black, in reference to the November 15 night raid evicting the camping protesters from Zuccotti Park, the birthplace of the Occupy movement.

Some of the New York protesters also carried signs denouncing the use of pepper spray on demonstrators in California, an incident which prompted numerous comments after video was circulated on the Internet.

After a police raid dismantled their New York camp in Zuccotti Park on Tuesday, the Occupy movement, which is protesting corporate greed and income inequality, said its new slogan was "You can't evict an idea whose time has come."

OWS said 32,500 gathered last week to mark the anti-capitalist movement's two-month anniversary at Foley Square in lower Manhattan before many marched across the Brooklyn Bridge.  [AFP]

Journalist @Matthew_Orr says there's a huge crowd at Zuccotti Park. Click on the link in his tweet to see an image.