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  • Tomorrow, global leaders will descend on the snow-covered ski town of Davos in Switzerland. Protestors from the Occupy Movement have set up camp there.

  • Police sweeps have closed Occupy Wall Street camps in a growing number of major cities. But the Occupy movement is still active.

  • Some sermons praise Occupy for raising concern about those in need. Other pastors say Jesus did not endorse an economic or political view.

  • Protesters around the country are working to reestablish the Occupy Wall Street movement. At the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, hundreds of demonstrators are trying to disrupt business.

  • Protesters have recently begun occupying a UBS building in London's financial district, and the Swiss bank can't kick them out without going through the U.K. courts.

  • Mattathias Schwartz discusses the origins and future of Occupy Wall Street.

  • L.A. officials try to tempt Occupy protesters off the City Hall lawn by offering cheap office space, farmland and housing.

  • Nov 18, 2011

    OWS as meme

    Demonstrators with the Occupy movement are seen reflected in a sign November 2, 2011 in Oakland, Calif.
    Eric Thayer/Getty Images

    Occupy Wall Street references have seeped into daily lingo and situations that have nothing to do with money, movements or Wall Street.

  • Occupy Wall Street protesters gather outside the New York Stock Exchange.
    Stacey Vanek Smith

    Recently evicted, the Occupy Wall Street movement hopes to keep its momentum going even after leaving Zuccotti Park.

  • Now that the Occupy Wall Street protests have been uprooted, protesters are taking to the streets. But what are the next steps the movement should take?