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Cornel West Arrested At Supreme Court Protest

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Civil rights activist and Princeton University professor Cornel West was arrested Sunday after protesting on the steps of the Supreme Court about corporate influence in politics, according to the Associated Press.

A total of 19 people were arrested Sunday afternoon after they refused to leave the grounds of the Supreme Court, says a spokesperson for the United States Supreme Court.

Ann Wilcox, an attorney and legal adviser to the protesters, says West was among those arrested. West attended the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial on the National Mall before joining the October 2011 Stop the Machine protest in Washington's Freedom Plaza.

The protest is marking 10 years since the start of the war in Afghanistan and has an anti-war and anti-corporate greed message. West is a well-known left-leaning academic whose books include "Race Matters" and "Democracy Matters."

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