Exclusive Video: Reporter vs. Cop Showdown at Zuccotti Park

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Autocratic forces are ascendant.

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Autocratic forces are ascendant in America. But truth-telling independent media is one remaining bulwark against the unrestrained exercise of power. At a time when billionaire owners of corporate media are making accommodations to political leaders, our nonprofit newsroom cannot be bought or broken. Please stand with us.

I asked Mother Jones‘ Josh Harkinson to narrate his night skipping barricades and risking arrest at Zuccotti Park, and I illustrated his story with my own interviews from throughout the night when Occupy Wall Street was raided by police. Read Josh’s liveblog and first-hand account from the raid of Zuccotti, and check out all the rest of our #OWS coverage.