Occupy. Still Here. Still Free. March 17th marks six months of American occupation and raising of social consciousness. Tents are a medium of expression, nodes for social services. We have so much yet to communicate, so much yet to give. When you're ready, we'll still be here; we'll still be free.

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Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! speaks with Occupy Wall Street activist Cecily McMillan, and Meghan Maurus, McMillan's attorney and mass defense coordinator at the New York City chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.

McMillan suffered a seizure when New York City police officers pulled her from the crowd and arrested her as hundreds attempted to re-occupy Zuccotti Park on Saturday, to mark sixth months since the launch of the movement. In her first television interview since her arrest, McMillan says she has decided to speak out because of an outpouring of public support. "I have received so many emails, Twitter messages and phone calls. People are just horrified about what happened to me." McMillan has a black eye and her body is covered in bruises, at least one in the shape of a handprint. She says she was not allowed to contact an attorney while she was taken to the hospital and transferred to a jail cell along with some of the 72 other detained protesters. Facing charges of police assault and obstructing governmental administration, she was released Monday after a judge denied a request that her bail be set at $20,000. McMillan is northeast regional organizer for Young Democratic Socialists of America, and a graduate student at the New School for Social Research.

More video of McMillan's arrest and treatment while she was suffering a seizure during Saturday's police brutality:

Here at about 7:20 into the video, and remember these may not be suitable for work due to language and graphic nature.

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An Occupy Wall Street protester says police gave demonstrators little warning before kicking them out of a New York City park overnight and that officers beat many of them during the arrests.

After NYPD raided Zuccotti Park on March 17 2012, about 100 people were arrested. Among them a young girl suffering a seizure and panic attack as she was being brought to the bus. The cops not only handle the situation wrongly, carrying her by the head as she's seizing, it also takes 17 minutes until professional help arrives. Protester standing outside the barricades had to make the 911 call to get EMT to come .

The videos above apparently show occupy activist Cecily McMillian, who was once profiled in Rolling Stone Magazine. Initial reports from the scene indicate that police broke her ribs; and just as troublesome, were further reports that police denied McMillian access to the outside world while in the hospital early Sunday morning. She apparently was denied a phone call to her lawyer or doctor, as well as access to her friends who had followed her to the hospital.

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Still Here. Still Free. #M17 marks six months of American occupation and raising of social consciousness. Zuccotti Park is re-occupied. Liberty Park is open once again.

99%, take a chance. When you're ready, #Occupy is here.

According to Twitter sources, there are at least 1,000 people in Zucotti Park right now. Various media outlets are reporting "a few hundred" protesters, but my boots-on-the-ground people are usually very close in their estimations.

The occupiers were as energized as I've ever seen them, despite the heavy police presence breathing down their necks and watching every move. Tensions were high, especially earlier in the day while the celebration was just getting geared up. From Twitter reports, it sounds like there were between 4-6 arrests on the sidewalk near the park. A witness says - via Twitter - he saw one arrestee punched in the head 10-15 times while subdued. You can see some of those arrests in the video above.

Protesters were pointing to two officers who they blamed for starting the altercation, via Livestream. Protester alleges this all started because officer Winski grabbed him and officer Murray shoved him. They are referring to 1st Precinct Commanding Officer Edward Winski, who has had several run-ins with occupy protesters. Last September, he reached over police barricades to detain an Occupy Wall Street protester during a march, and in December arrested protester Justin Wedes as he was passively filming the police.

Michael Moore has joined the crowd at Zucotti Park. If you check out the livestreams I posted earlier, you can see what a good time the group is having. Now if NYPD can chill out...

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Occupy Wall Street is out and about celebrating their 6 month anniversary with a march, and they've got beautiful weather for it, too. Several "mic checks" already mentioning the "American Spring," and a "Resurgence" of the movement, and a powerful year.

Seems there has already been some trouble with the NYPD. According to Twitter reports, protesters have already been arrested for "standing on the sidewalk too long."

Via livestream, I'm hearing that the earlier skirmish with police began because a man was handing out fliers, there was some sort of struggle that ended with the man with the fliers demanding an apology from one of the cops.

Tim Pool just tweeted, "Cop just approached a journalist and said "You're laughing now, you werent laughing when you got arrested."

I'll add an update later. If the rumors are correct, the occupiers plan to attempt to re-take Zuccotti Park.

Tim mentioned possibly taking a break, so here's Global Revolution's livestream as well: