Occupy arrests over weekend include reporter in Nashville

Arrests at Occupy rallies were made throughout the weekend in other locales, including in Denver, where police in riot gear apprehended 15 demonstrators.

In San Diego, police arrested 51 demonstrators Friday after declaring an unlawful assembly.

In Austin, police arrested 38 people in Austin, Texas, who had set up a table with food and other items outside City Hall two days after the city issued rules saying food tables at the event must be put away between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. When the group was asked to leave the area, the 38 refused and were arrested, police said

In Portland, police arrested more than two dozen people who refused to leave a park in northwest Portland, Oregon, after warnings that the park closed at midnight, police said.

In Oakland, the site of a chaotic street scene last Tuesday that resulted in an Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen critically injured, protesters are calling for a general strike across the city Wednesday and are urging other groups nationwide to organize similar events (Olsen's roommate says that Olsen is expected to make a full recovery).

Going back to the scene in Nashville, police initially charged reporter Jonathan Meador with public intoxication and criminal trespass.

Meador's boss, SouthComm CEO Chris Ferrell, called on Saturday for the Governor of Tennessee to "acknowledge the mistake, apologize for it, and assure the citizens of Tennessee that he would uphold the Bill of Rights."

After the arrests of Meador and 25 others early Saturday, a Judge ordered their immediate release, denying troopers’ warrant requests and rejecting the legality of the state’s newly imposed curfew.

The A.C.L.U. of Tennessee said it planned to file a lawsuit challenging the curfew at the downtown plaza.