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Secretive nationwide network gives SEIU new organizing muscle Published: 2:14 AM 03/05/2012 By Richard Pollock - The Daily Caller "This Is Our DC" activists hold "We are the 99%" and mix with "Occupy DC" protesters during a protest outside the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. (Reason TV) This is the first in a Daily Caller investigative series.The politically aggressive Service Employees International Union SEIU has quietly created a national network of at least eight community-organizing groups, some of which function alongside the Occupy Wall Street movement, a Daily Caller investigation shows.Incorporated by the SEIU as local non-profits, the...

Dozens of protesters staged sit-ins in front of lawmakers' offices Tuesday and several hundred more camped out on the National Mall as part of a new movement calling itself "Take Back the Capitol." U.S. Capitol Police said one person was arrested for unlawful entry at the office of Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Missouri. Borrowing language from the Occupy movement and drawing demonstrators "from Occupy sites from coast to coast," the movement says its goal is to affect congressional legislation. "For far too long, Congress has been catering to the 1% instead of representing the 99%," the movement says on its website,...