A live broadcast will start at 7 a.m. local time (noon GMT, 16:00 Moscow time) from New York, where the Occupy Wall Street campaigners plan to protest on Thursday to celebrate two months since the start of the campaign.
The time of the broadcast is subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances.
Yesterday NYPD dispersed a protest camp in Zuccotti Park.
The first rally is planned at the New York Stock Exchange.
“We will shut down Wall Street and we will occupy all of New York City with our bodies, voices and ideas. Tomorrow we will trade ideas, not stocks!” reads a message from the campaign leaders that urge for “decrying the top one percent of taxpayers.”
The next plan is to occupy the subways and hold a student strike on Union Square. At least five New York universities confirmed they would participate.
Around 5p.m., the campaigners are going to surround the New York City Council and march to the Brooklyn Bridge.
This is the second attempt to occupy the bridge since September. Hundreds of protesters were detained by police last time.
The Occupy Wall Street campaign started in New York on September 17. The protesters are demonstrating against unemployment and the policy of the government and financial institutions. They call them ‘financial terrorists’ and demand a tax increase for the one percent of the richest people. The activists believe they represent a majority of U.S. citizens (hence the movement name, “99%”). Similar campaigns are taking place in some other countries such as Canada, Australia, Germany, the UK, France and Spain.
