Some of the latest developments in the Occupy protests taking place in cities across the world:
UNITED STATES
TENNESSEE
Tennessee state troopers for the second straight night arrested Wall Street protesters for defying a new nighttime curfew imposed by the Republican governor, in an effort to disband an encampment near the state Capitol in Nashville.
And also for a second time, a night judge dismissed the arrest warrants, saying there was no authority for a curfew.
Occupy Nashville protesters ? including many of the 29 arrested in a pre-dawn raid on Friday ? returned to the Legislative Plaza on Friday evening and remained through the 10 p.m. curfew. Troopers moved in after theater-goers had mostly left the area.
Troopers wouldn't give any details other than that a press release would be issued later Saturday. After the arrested protesters were handcuffed, photographed and put on a bus, one trooper told another at the scene that 26 people had been apprehended.
Protesters remaining at the scene vowed to return Saturday, even if it means more arrests.
CALIFORNIA
Oakland's police chief says he takes responsibility for a crackdown on anti-Wall Street protesters, who have accused police of seriously injuring an Iraq War veteran during a clash earlier this week.
Interim Chief Howard Jordan's defended the officers involved in the effort to drive protesters from a dayslong encampment, saying they used what they believed to be the least amount of force possible to protect themselves.
The plight of Iraq war veteran Scott Olsen, 24 ? who remained hospitalized in fair condition with a fractured skull ? has become a rallying cry at Occupy protests around the world.
Fellow veterans say police fired an object that struck him in the head, but authorities say object has yet to be definitively established, as well as the person responsible for the injury.
Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore addressed about 1,000 anti-Wall Street protesters in front of Oakland's City Hall on Friday, saying the Occupy movement has changed the national discussion.
Meanwhile, a protest encampment at a plaza near the City Hall grew to about 50 tents, with organizers saying up to a thousand people were in the area late Friday night with very few police in sight.
The Oakland protesters announced a general strike on Nov. 2 where they will be urging banks and corporations to close for the day.
MAINE
Maine groups aligned with the Occupy Wall Street movement plan to rally Saturday.
Occupy Bangor says a rally at downtown Bangor's Peirce Park will be followed by a march. The group says participants are organizing to show solidarity for what it calls a "feeling of mass injustice and inequality in America."
In Portland, Occupy Maine says it will also rally Saturday with speakers, music and a march from Monument Square. The weather forecast was for 6 inches of snow Saturday evening.
NEW MEXICO
Organizers in Albuquerque plan a Saturday march at the site where about two dozen protesters were arrested earlier this week. The "1st Amendment Solidarity March" starts at University of New Mexico's Yale Park.
Protesters were arrested after school officials ordered the four-week-old protest site closed over safety concerns. New Mexico state police raided the spot late Tuesday and have prevented protesters from returning.
Organizers are pressing city officials to allow them to relocate to Robinson Park. Albuquerque protesters met Thursday with Mayor Richard Berry, but Berry did not make a decision. He told protesters he wanted to seek a balance between free speech and public safety.
VERMONT
More than 100 social activists planned to stay the night in City Hall Park in Burlington as they worked to expand into a 24-hour operation.
The Burlington protests began on Sunday but Friday's effort marked the first time the Vermont movement was going to try to go full time, at least initially.
City rules don't allow the park to be used between midnight and 6 a.m. But city officials ruled Friday the protesters could stay, as long as no laws were broken and there were no threats to public safety. The city vowed to take a wait and see approach to enforcement of the camping ban.
MICHIGAN
Participants in the Traverse City protest plan to collect food, clothing and blankets for the needy.
Donations are expected to be given to area nonprofits.
EUROPE
ENGLAND
A part-time chaplain at St. Paul's Cathedral has become the second churchman to resign over the church's attitude to the protest outside the building.
Fraser Dyer said he was "embarrassed" by the decision to take legal action to try to evict the anti-capitalist protesters. Senior clergyman Giles Fraser resigned earlier, saying he feared moves to evict the protesters could end in violence.
Church and local government authorities are separately going to court to try to evict the protesters, though officials have acknowledged it could take weeks or months to get an order to remove the tent city.
As the iconic church reopened after a weeklong closure triggered by the protest, the City of London Corporation said it was launching legal action on the grounds that the protest is an "unreasonable user of the highway." Scores of tents are pitched on the pedestrianized square in front of the cathedral and near a footpath alongside the building.
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