US police arrest OWS protesters in Iowa
US police have arrested several Occupy Wall Street protesters in the state of Iowa and charged them with trespassing, Press TV reports. - Police made the arrests on Wednesday when anti-corporate demonstrators were protesting at the campaign headquarters of the Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in the Iowa's capital city Des Moines. Occupy activists vowed to expand their demonstrations as Republican presidential hopefuls attend the Iowa caucus, a meeting in which the party's candidates speak in the race to win the party's presidential nomination. A number of "Occupy the Caucus" protesters also gathered in the lobby of a Wells Fargo bank branch in Des Moines. Iowa police detained nine protesters who entered the bank. The protesters say the bank has not disclosed its donations to Republican presidential candidates. In Oakland California, police have dismantled yet another occupy camp and arrested another person on charges of trespassing. Meanwhile, anti-Wall Street protesters in Washington D.C. have filed for a city permit to occupy Congress on January 17.