Across the country, Occupy movements have generally coalesced in a central location — New York’s Zuccotti Park, say, or the plaza outside Philadelphia’s City Hall. But in Washington, the movement that preaches solidarity for the masses is, at its core, a tale of two protests trying to coexist, sometimes with mixed results.

Protester Alex Wiseman, 18, of Springfield, says he sleeps at the Freedom Plaza protest site but visits the other Occupy DC protest at McPherson Square to “party.” He says he enjoys both camps but that there’s no love lost between some protesters at the two sites.