People from around the country are converging on the capitol for "Take Back the Capitol." At the heart of the movement is a similar message to Occupy Wall Street, according to NBCWashington.com. The group says it wants Congress and elected leaders to represent the 99 percent of every day Americans, instead of the wealthiest 1 percent.

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Demonstrators march on Capitol Hill to occupy the offices of their members of Congress during the "Take Back the Capitol" protest Dec. 6, in Washington, DC. Demonstrators from 46 states have set up on the National Mall and will stage demonstrations all week, including occupying the offices of their senators and representatives until they agree to meet with them and talk about jobs, the economy and other issues.

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Marci Razlplaz, 18, from Kansas City, Mo., left, points out the office number of Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo. on a directory in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 6, as part of the People's Action Center visit to the Capitol. The group mobilized to visit congressional offices as a reminder to elected officials that they represent the 99%.

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Andrew Duke (C), Chief of Staff to Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-TX, tells Members of Good Jobs, Great Houston and other progressive groups "occupying" Hensarling's office that the Representative will not be able to meet with them in the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, DC, Dec. 6.

The group plans more actions this week including swarming lobbying offices, a national prayer vigil and a mass march.

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Members of "Our DC," a group advocating for good jobs in Washington, DC, "occupies" the office of House Majority Leader from Virginia Eric Cantor during a "Take Back the Capitol" event in the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, Dec. 6. They billed the event as an opportunity "to remind members of Congress that the Capitol is the People's House."

U.S. Park Police on Sunday arrested Occupy D.C. protesters who refused to dismantle an unfinished wooden structure erected in a local park overnight.

Protesters began constructing the wooden building Saturday, but on Sunday police told them they needed a permit for such a structure and gave them an hour to disassemble it.

When the protesters failed to comply, officers on horseback moved in. Officers removed several protesters from the structure and arrested them, then started breaking down the structure.

Legba Carrefour, a participant in the Occupy D.C. protest, said 12 to 20 people had been arrested by mid-afternoon and several protesters remained on the structure in a standoff with officers. Police could not be reached for an official arrest count.

Police have closed off some of the surrounding streets.

Local authorities around the U.S. have sent in police to remove encampments set up by supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement protesting economic injustice and corporate greed.

In Portland, Oregon, authorities said riot police moved into a downtown park area and arrested several anti-Wall Street protesters Saturday night after they refused to leave.

Occupy Portland demonstrators set up tents in the park earlier in the day and vowed to stay through the winter, defying city officials who said overnight camping would not be allowed.

Police Sgt. Pete Simpson said officers began detaining protesters around 8:30 p.m., after the park was closed a half hour early. He said several arrests were made but he didn't have an exact count.

The Portland protesters had been without an encampment since police swept through a downtown site three weeks ago.

Earlier, ffficers with the University of North Texas Police Department were trying to determine the identity of a man found dead in an empty area of the Occupy Denton campsite on Saturday, according to NBC 5 in Dallas.

Police do not suspect foul play in the death.

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The campsite is still operating, but some campers could be seen packing up and leaving late Saturday night.

UNT senior and Occupy Denton protester Garrett Graham said the group is in mourning.

"This is a family and this is a community here," Graham said. "We're dealing with this loss the way a family does -- lots of condolences, a lot of emotion and a lot of love."

Updated 2:00 a.m. EST Sunday

About 50 police officers in riot gear moved in on Occupy Portland, Ore., protesters Saturday night, clearing sidewalks and dismantling defiantly set-up tents after announcing the park was closing early on an emergency basis.

The Associated Press reported that police were detaining protesters with flex cuffs and hauling away those who refused to leave, but no detailed numbers of arrests were available late Saturday.

Protesters regrouped in front of City Hall, while riot police gathered near the building, before beginning a march with heavy police presence after 10 p.m. PST.

Evicted protesters chanted, "Whose streets, our streets." Police reduced their presence as the marchers wandered through downtown streets.  

Before their sweep, officers warned that anyone who wouldn’t leave the park would be arrested, Oregonlive.com reported.

Livestream video showed lines of officers in riot gear confronting protesters.

Demonstarators had gathered in a portion of the South Park blocks, near the Portland Art Museum, NBC station KGW said.

Demonstrators said they would stay through the winter and had no plans to leave. Police, however, had warned that overnight stays at parks wouldn't be allowed.

The park where the demonstrators set up tents was scheduled to close at 9 p.m., but police closed it a half-hour early after protesters confronted park workers and prevented them from carrying out their job of enforcing park codes, police said.

Authorities last month evicted demonstrators who had camped in two downtown parks for more than a month.

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Death in Denton, Texas
Officers with the University of North Texas Police Department are trying to determine the identity of a man found in an empty area of the Occupy Denton campsite, NBC Dallas Fort Worth reported Saturday. Police told the NBC station that the deceased is a white male and was found inside one of the tents.

Police do not suspect foul play in the death, NBC Dallas-Forth Worth reported.

The campsite is still operating, but some campers could be seen packing up and leaving late Saturday night.

UNT senior and Occupy Denton protester Garrett Graham said the group was in mourning.

"This is a family and this is a community here," Graham said. "We're dealing with this loss the way a family does -- lots of condolences, a lot of emotion and a lot of love."

Assault silence in Hartford, Conn.
A group at the Occupy Hartford campsite, including the victim, tried to keep a sex assault quiet, police told NBC Connecticut. Police received an anonymous call Thursday reporting the sex assault at the Occupy Hartford site in Turning Point Park on Broad Street.

Investigating officers located the victim, a woman who told them a man aggressively kissed her neck and groped her breasts against her wishes. Several others at the campsite intervened and the suspect ran off, she told police.

When asked why no one from Occupy Hartford, including the victim, reported the sex assault to police, they told officers they did not want to draw any negative attention to their cause.

Assembly in Nashville, Tenn.
Dozens of Occupy protesters in Nashville have been joined by groups from around the state for a weekend assembly, NBC station WSMV reported.

Groups from Chattanooga, Clarksville and Memphis have set up teach-in's on more than a dozen topics, from Tennessee's new voter ID law, community organizing and the privately run prison system to constitutional law and the history of the gay-rights movement.

OccupyTennessee will have three marches and a general assembly for statewide decision making each day, with the conference ending Sunday.

Deadline in Albany, NY
City officials losing their patience with Occupy Albany protesters sent them a letter ordering all-night camping at Academy Park to end Dec. 22 at the latest, NBC station WNYT reported.

In that directive, the city cites "serious health and safety" code violations as the reason for ordering occupying campers to pull up stakes in twenty days.

The bright red "cease and desist" orders attached to the outside of every tent at Academy Park, followed an inspection by the Albany Fire Department and signals a drastic change in the city's attitude toward protesters.

"This did come by surprise," said Kathy Manley, an attorney for the Occupy Albany movement. "I don't know exactly what they're thinking. I don't know how amenable they are to negotiating."

What the city wants now is remediation of health and safety violations -- and they want it by Dec. 6.

Vacating in New Orleans
A day after New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu told Occupy NOLA protesters they will no longer be allowed to stay overnight in Duncan Plaza, many of those who have been occupying the park for the past two months appeared to have left, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported.

About 25 percent of the protesters were gone from Duncan Plaza by Saturday evening and many others indicated they would leave soon, protesters told the newspaper. However, they said, others planned to stay and resist any attempt to clear the park.

Protesters return in Los Angeles
One person was arrested Saturday in Los Angeles when Occupy protesters organized a large downtown march that included demonstrators arrested last week during a police sweep of their encampment outside City Hall, The Los Angeles Times reported. About 100 police officers and private security guards trailed the marchers, according to news reports cited by the Times.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

SEATTLE -- Another Occupy encampment is facing ouster.

A judge ruled Friday that Seattle Central Community College can evict Occupy Seattle protesters from its campus on Seattle's Capitol Hill.

In denying a restraining order that would have prevented the eviction,  Thurston County Judge Christine Pomeroy said protesters have a right to protest, but not to camp at the campus, NBC station KING reported on its website. The judge also mentioned health and safety risks at the encampment as a reason for eviction.

Under the ruling, the school must post an eviction notice, which could happen as early as Monday, KING.com reported. Then the protesters would have 72 hours to leave, meaning eviction could be as early as Thursday.

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Occupy Seattle protesters shifted their tents to the SCCC campus last month after several battles with the city of Seattle over camps at Westlake Park and City Hall Plaza.

Just before Thanksgiving, the SCCC Board of Trustees approved an emergency rule banning camping on the college's property.

Immediately after, an Occupy Seattle protester named Patrica Sulley filed an injunction for a restraining order to stop the new rule, sending the case to court.

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"In the news sometimes we're portrayed as a this horrible, messy community, with all these problems. And it's a really beautiful mess," Sulley said after the ruling.

SCCC administrators have said the Occupy camp costs the school about $20,000 a week. They have also expressed concerns about protesters entering the college's buildings.

Cities across the nation, including New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Oakland have evicted Occupy protesters from public spaces. Hundreds of people have been arrested in the raids, which have resulted in injuries to protesters and police in some places.

In Seattle, a large Occupy encampment in downtown Westlake Park was forcibly removed in October, and many of the protesters then moved to the college campus.

This article includes reporting from NBC station KING of Seattle and msnbc.com staff.

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Adam Carolla

For years, Adam Carolla gave out life and love advice via his syndicated show, "Loveline," which he co-hosted with Dr. Drew Pinsky. But turns out Carolla doesn't just have advice, he has some pretty strong opinions -- especially about the young generation, at least those participating in the Occupy Wall Street protests.

Expletives were flying in Carolla's interview with the right-leaning Media Research Center, in which he ranted that the Millennial generation have been spoiled by Baby Boom parents who treated them all as very special snowflakes.

"We've created a bunch of f---ing self-entitled monsters," Carolla said in the interview, going on to mimic a Millennial demanding unearned recognition. "'I want my Most Valuable Player trophy.' 'Well, you're the slowest, fattest guy on the team.' 'Why should he get one and I don't get one?' 'Because he busts his ass and he runs a 4.4 (40-yard-dash). That's why he gets one.'"

Carolla says he believes being raised in a culture of reward for all, despite the amount of work put forward, created the Occupy Wall Street protesters, calling them "self-entitled pricks who think the world owes them a living."

You can listen to the interview below. Warning: contains profanity.

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After a long night for police and protesters, Occupy encampments in Los Angeles and Philadelphia were empty Wednesday morning. The cities were dealing with the aftermath of the two-month occupations — legal battles and park clean-up. And though the mass roundup in Los Angeles remained largely nonviolent, it sparked debate over whether jail officials were being unnecessarily punitive.

The Los Angeles police worked throughout the night to process the 292 people arrested, all but two of whom who were booked for refusing to leave City Hall and nearby intersections after the city declared those to be unlawful assemblies. Bail for the misdemeanor charges was set at $5,000 each.

Masked sanitation workers hauled away 25 tons of debris from the lawns around Los Angeles City Hall after police raided the protesters' camp in the middle of the night and arrested more than 300 people.

In Philadelphia, dozens of police patrolled a plaza outside City Hall after sweeping it of demonstrators and arresting 50.

Mass arrest
Because of the large number of arrests in Los Angeles, protesters were taken to three different jail facilities for booking, and spokesmen who were reached said they did not know how many remained in custody at 2 p.m. PST.

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A bail bondsman in Los Angeles said that he had received three calls from family members on behalf of protesters, but that he couldn’t help until they were completely processed. He said that could take up to 24 hours.

“We are not able to move forward on these bonds is because they are still processing people in,” said Greg Rynerson, an owner of Rynerson’s Bail Bonds. The procedures — getting fingerprinted, photographed, run through background checks — normally take one to six hours after arrest, he said.

“But when you have this kind of volume, I imagine the jail staff is completely overwhelmed,” he said.

By accounts from both sides, the police operation in Los Angeles remained largely peaceful. There was one arrest for interfering with a law enforcement officer and one for battery on a police officer, according to LAPD public information officer Andrew Smith.

“The people who were arrested pretty much were volunteers to be arrested — as they have at other rallies,” Smith said.

At a news conference Wednesday morning, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck proclaimed his officers' operation a success.

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A Los Angeles police officer walks through the vacated site of Occupy LA outside City Hall on Wednesday. Demonstrators were camped here for two months to protest economic inequality and financial system excesses.

"The world was watching… and what the world saw was an elegant operational plan that was brilliantly executed by America's finest police force," Beck said.

NBC Los Angeles reported that the final holdouts at the encampment — a dog and three people in a tree house — were removed by officers using a Bomb Assault Tactical Control Assessment Tool — basically a souped-up forklift.

The operation might help Los Angeles police shed their bad reputation for abuse.

“On Los Angeles — it is no longer the most violent police force in America,” said attorney Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a non-profit human rights litigation organization in New York.The National Lawyers Guild, which has been supporting the Occupy protesters, condemned the arrests, peaceful or not.

LA police: 'Brilliantly executed' raid on Occupy camp

“The Los Angeles Police Department is deliberately refusing to release anyone arrested in the Occupy raids with a notice to appear,” said Carol Sobel, NLG board member. “The city is holding them in jail on $5,000 bail until they can be arraigned by a judge, which can take up to 48 hours. This punishes people for exercising their First Amendment rights.”

Protesters posting on the Occupy Los Angeles website disagreed about whether the police action was peaceful. Participants were urging protesters to send in raw video footage they collected to document alleged abuses.

There have been no formal complaints about police treatment in the action, said Bruce Borihanh, an LAPD spokesman.

Looking ahead, the city of Los Angeles was dusting off a landscaping plan for the park around city hall, timely grounds work that will effectively prevent people from using it, according to a senior city hall staffer who said was not authorized as a spokesperson.

What’s next for occupiers?
Protesters across the nation were pondering how to proceed with the movement's “occupation” phase ending.

In the past few weeks, police broke up encampments in other cities as Portland, Ore., Oakland, Calif., and New York, where the sit-down protests against social inequality and corporate excesses began in mid-September, The Associated Press reported.

Demonstrators are still at it in places like Boston and Washington, which each had encampments of about 100 tents Wednesday. Dozens of protesters are fighting eviction from a community college campus in Seattle.

The camps may bloom again in the spring, organizers told the AP, and next summer could bring huge demonstrations at the Republican and Democratic presidential nominating conventions, when the whole world is watching. But for now they are promoting dozens of smaller actions, such as picketing the president in New York and staging sit-ins at homes marked for foreclosure.

"We intend to use this for what it is — basically six months to get our feet underneath us, to get strong," said Phil Striegel, a community activist in San Francisco.

Protesters elsewhere also refuse to concede defeat.

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In New York City on Wednesday evening, groups of marchers threaded their way through traffic to demonstrate at the Sheraton Hotel, where President Barack Obama was due to speak. They included a group of "peace grannies," people playing drums and other instruments, and others carrying American flags and Occupy signs. 

Protesters in Philadelphia planned a march from the city's well-to-do Rittenhouse Square to police headquarters Wednesday afternoon and also called for a "victory march" for Friday or Saturday, the AP reported.

"Occupy Philly is alive and well," said Katonya Mosley, a member of the group's legal collective. She said members have been communicating via list serves, text messages and email and planned to continue meeting in cafes and other spaces. Local groups have also offered to donate space for the protesters to continue meeting, Mosley said.

While one faction received a permit for a scaled-down protest across the street, she said, Occupy Philadelphia as a whole hasn't decided whether to go that route. The city has said any new permit would include a ban on camping.

In St. Louis, protesters whose camp was broken up by police on Nov. 12 planned to march to the Federal Reserve Bank office on Thursday. John Mills, a technical writer, called the dissolution of the camp a minor setback.

"It's dampened some spirits, but I think people are just as passionate, just as excited and just as ready for change as they were before," Mills said.

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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, left, next to LAPD Chief Charlie Beck at Los Angeles City Hall on Friday, announces that City Hall Park will close at 12:01am on Monday.

Occupying Angelenos have until Monday at 12:01 a.m. to pack up their tents and take down the signs that have decorated City Hall Park for the past 56 days.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and LAPD Chief Charlie Beck announced the closure of City Hall Park, the current location of Occupy LA’s encampment, Friday during a press conference.

"We are asking the participants in the Occupy LA encampment to begin to pack their belongings and to leave City Hall Park in an orderly manner," said Villaraigosa.

Officers will begin walking through the encampment with information regarding the park closure as a part of the multi-step closure process. Social workers, nearby parking and a set amount of shelter beds will be made available to occupiers as well.

In honor of the spirit of free expression, the mayor said City Hall's historic Spring Street steps, which had become the gathering place for demonstrators’ free speech forums, will remain open during the park's cleaning.

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People sit on the steps of Los Angeles City Hall as they participate in a meeting Friday at the Occupy LA protest camp, slated to be closed at 12:01 a.m. on Monday.

Talk of closing the 1.2-acre park began Monday, after Deputy Mayor Matt Szabo reportedly shared news of the pending eviction with Occupy LA representatives at a meeting. Demonstrators would be given a 72-hour window to leave the area.

"Today is merely the realization that the encampment is no longer sustainable and must end," Beck said at the conference.

He added that this doesn't mean Occupy LA's message must end.

Police will not physically remove remaining protesters past 12:01 a.m. Monday, but will have the ability to enforce the park’s 10 p.m. curfew, Beck said.

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