After a four-month-long Occupy D.C. encampment turned large swaths of McPherson Square into unsightly and barren plots, the National Park Service has started renovating the park. more ›

As of this week the occupation of Freedom Plaza is no more—protesters merged their encampment with a related one at McPherson Square. more ›

The Occupy protests at McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza are considering a potential merger that would put both groups at McPherson, potentially putting to rest any confusion over which group is the "real" Occupy D.C. more ›

Occupy D.C. was a bit rattled Thursday afternoon when the National Park Service dropped by McPherson Square to resow a pair of flowerbeds that have lay barren since the protest first took root last fall. more ›

The Occupy D.C. protester who allegedly hurled a bottle of Coca-Cola into the face of a U.S. Park Police officer at last weekend's massive clearing out of McPherson Square was released today to a halfway house pending his next court date. more ›

Yesterday afternoon some 60 protesters gathered in a newly barren McPherson Square to discuss how a movement that so closely linked its message to its tactics could transition in a post-camping world. No longer was a presence enough to remind the one percent that the 99 percent was watching; from this point on, Occupy D.C. has to make its point without actually occupying. more ›

Compared to the clearing out of McPherson Square on Saturday, the enforcement of no-camping rules by the National Park Service in Freedom Plaza on Sunday was a slow burn. more ›

DCist photographer James Calder was on hand yesterday when U.S. Park Police and Occupy D.C. protesters clashed as police tried to clear part of McPherson Square to check tents for camping material. The pictures he captured are evidence of the tension, emotion and confusion that reigned during the day. more ›

A day after a U.S. Park Police raid on the Occupy D.C. encampment in McPherson Square, inspections and clean-up continued into Sunday morning. more ›

On a day in which U.S. Park Police methodically inspected the Occupy D.C. encampment in McPherson Square for violations of no-camping rules, tension could often be felt between police and protesters. But for D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the day evolved better than could have been expected. more ›

Eight people from Occupy D.C. were arrested and scores of tents removed as U.S. Park Police spent the day enforcing the ban on camping in McPherson Square in what was by far the largest show of force yet agains the four-month-old protest. more ›

Early this morning U.S. Park Police moved into the Occupy D.C. encampment in McPherson Square and removed the "Tent of Dreams," a tarp that had hung from the statue of Gen. James McPherson since Monday. They also set up barricades and told protesters that they would be searching tents for any evidence of camping, such as bedding. more ›

Two members of Occupy D.C. are in the fourth day of a "sleep strike" in protest of the National Park Service's enforcement on the ban on camping in McPherson Square. They've been awake since Monday. A doctor who specializes in sleep disorders says it's a very bad idea. more ›

The man who yesterday tried to cut down Occupy D.C.'s "Tent of Dreams" comes forward. He's a veteran of anti-Vietnam protests, but he's got little patience for the income-inequality movement of today. more ›

WAMU insists that McPherson Square be pronounced Mc-fur-son. We delve way too deeply into why that's a mistake. more ›

Four months ago today, what is now known as the Occupy D.C. encampment in McPherson Square was born. more ›

A man wielding scissors tried to take down Occupy D.C.'s "Tent of Dreams." He failed, and was led away to a U.S. Park Police squad car. more ›

A federal judge said today that if the National Park Service decides to close McPherson Square, it needs to give Occupy D.C. enough time to mount a legal response. Still, he shot down a request that U.S. Park Police be forbidden from enforcing anti-camping rules. more ›

A day after protesters at the Occupy D.C. encampment at McPherson Square dropped a massive tarp over the statue of Gen. James McPherson in protest of a planned enforcement of anti-camping regulations, the U.S. Park Police have asked occupiers to remove it. more ›

McPherson Square was flush with protesters, onlookers and reporters waiting to see what action the U.S. Park Police would take in enforcing the National Park Service's final warning that Occupy D.C. is in violation of federal regulations about camping in a public space. So far, no one has been arrested. more ›

As a deadline hit for protesters at the Occupy D.C. encampment at McPherson Square to stop camping, occupiers draped a massive tarp over the statue of General James McPherson after which the park was named while chanting "Let us sleep so we can dream." more ›

In a flier distributed today, the National Park Service appears to be getting ready to enforce the prohibitions on camping at McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza, potentially starting to draw the curtains on Occupy D.C.'s takeover of the public squares. more ›

It looks like despite the National Park Service's insistence that the Occupy D.C. encampment at McPherson Square is a round-the-clock vigil, the federal agency will issue final warning related to camping before possible evicting the camp. more ›

At a congressional hearing this morning on Occupy D.C., federal and D.C. officials are expressing differing opinions on whether or not the McPherson Square encampment should be allowed to remain. more ›

First Congress gets occupied, next it's the Supreme Court and the corporations. more ›

For all intents and purposes, yesterday's Occupy Congress protests were relatively mild. For one New York-based occupier, that was a problem. more ›

A member of Congress is holding a hearing to determine why the Occupy D.C. encampment at McPherson Square has been allowed to stay as long as it has. more ›

In one of the most dramatic signs of escalating tension between the District and the Occupy D.C. encampment at McPherson Square, Mayor Vince Gray penned a terse letter to the National Park Service yesterday asking that occupiers be moved to Freedom Plaza so that the city could clean and rehabilitate the park. more ›

There have long been concerns over health and sanitation at the Occupy D.C. encampment at McPherson Square, but how bad are things really? Pretty awful, according to a D.C. health official. more ›

Despite a standing court order that forces the U.S. Park Police to give the Occupy D.C. encampment at McPherson Square 24 hours notice before moving to evict it, a lawyer representing the protesters is seeking to ban the government from acting against the occupiers altogether. more ›