WASHINGTON (AP) - They were let back into Zuccotti Park, but kicked out of a vacant house in Seattle. In other places, Occupy protesters are in courtrooms fighting evictions.
While the movement flickers, the protest in the nation's capital is persisting into the winter, buoyed by demonstrators who camp out on federal land in a city with a tolerant, even celebrated, history of civil disobedience. Washington even has two Occupy sites within blocks of each other.
"We didn't initiate it - that was with Occupy Wall Street - but we're carrying it on. And you know what? So are they," said Joseph Bieber, who came to Washington after the Occupy site in Philadelphia was shut down.
Demonstrators like Bieber have found a new home in D.C., where organizers expect a protest Tuesday on Capitol Hill - dubbed Occupy Congress - to draw thousands of people and bring renewed attention to the movement in Washington and to their overall opposition to corporate greed and income inequality.
"We can't just protest on Wall Street. We must also protest Congress directly if we want to have real change," said Mario Lozada, a protester from Philadelphia who plans to be in Washington next week for the protest.
Though the D.C. protesters have provoked the ire of a Republican congressman, they have been tolerated - with some growing signs of exasperation - by a mayor who forged his political identity as an activist and by a National Park Service that says it's determined to protect First Amendment rights. Though they've dwindled considerably in numbers, the demonstrators, and a few homeless people, have remained despite occasionally freezing temperatures, the holidays and, more recently, rat infestations and health department inspections.
It's unclear how long they'll remain or how the situation will end.
Several dozen tents occupy Freedom Plaza and McPherson Square, both just blocks from the White House, though it's hard to tell how many people are there on any given night. The group at McPherson Square was inspired by the protesters in New York, while the Freedom Plaza site - a generally older crowd - had a war protest that morphed into an Occupy encampment.
In New York, protesters have been holding meetings at various indoor spaces after tents and sleeping bags were banned from Zuccotti Park in mid-November. A police raid evicted protesters who had been sleeping there since Sept. 17.
On Tuesday, metal barricades that had surrounded Zuccotti Park were removed, and about 300 demonstrators "re-Occupied" the park. Most left, though, as the night wore on.
In Seattle, sheriff's deputies evicted seven people early Wednesday from a vacant house that had been taken over as part of the movement. Deputies said they appeared to be squatters who did not have a political motive. However, the house is covered in graffiti, including "no banks, no landlords" and "capitalism is exploitation."
Other encampments remain, including in Portland, Me., and in Pittsburgh, where attorneys for the protesters argued in court Tuesday against eviction.