Reuters reports that a rare October snowstorm tested the resolve of anti-Wall Street protesters camped out in a New York park Saturday, as police arrested demonstrators in Denver and evicted others from a Nashville plaza.
In Washington, demonstrators marched in sleet to the U.S. Treasury to urge higher taxes on the financial sector, beating a drum and chanting "Banks got bailed out, we got sold out!"
Buffeted by strong winds, protesters hunkered down in snow-covered tents in Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan, where the Occupy Wall Street movement against economic inequality first set up camp six weeks ago, sparking dozens of similar occupations in city parks across the United States.
A day after New York authorities confiscated their generators due to safety issues, hundreds of protesters struggled to stay warm and dry after more than an inch of snow fell in the city with temperatures forecast to drop to freezing overnight.
"We knew this would be tough.
We didn't start this as a sort of summer of love, it's the winter of discontent," said Alan Collinge, 41, from Seattle, poking his head out a tent. He estimated one in five protesters in the park had left due to the unusually early storm, but added, "They'll be back, we're not going anywhere."
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