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On the day when people across the country are moving their money out of big banks, eight protesters outside a bank in Dallas were arrested. The national movement is called Bank Transfer Day, a response to plans by Bank of America and other large financial institutions to add fees to debit card users. But it was Occupy Dallas protesters creating the scene on Saturday, where an estimated 150 people joined in, marching from bank-to-bank in downtown Dallas. Police officers were close behind, watching every move. "We had the banks that we wanted to go to, and from what happened at...

Police beat pro - Palestinian protesters in Tunisia   TUNIS, April 5 (Reuters) - Police beat protesters who braved a government ban on Friday and took to the streets to show solidarity with the Palestinians, witnesses said. "No American embassies and no American interests on Arab land," shouted some demonstrators, waving Palestinian flags, while others repeated:"Palestine is an Arab land". Plainclothes police, backed by riot police, stormed the protesters as they passed through Paris street in central Tunis, beating them with truncheons and clubs, the witnesses said. The demonstrators, including women, escaped through adjacent streets as more policemen charged forward to disperse about 300 protesters. Earlier,...