then an even larger group of people what people are saying was twenty thousand marched back from foley square to liberty plaza and it was incredibly peaceful and large and just full of energy and just people coming together to stand up for what they believe in which is the right to have a job and participate in a fair economy and then once we got back to liberty plaza the energy was still strong you know michael moore was speaking reverend billy was there and people were getting ready to march on wall street to go down and confront the corporations that have contributed to the crisis that we're in and we were ready to continue with a peaceful march but the police refused to let it happen on the corner of broadway broadway and wall street they started putting up barriers and arresting people. and things just started to turn violent as people tried to decide what they would do to get around the barriers and how to have this march cops responded with pepper sprays and baton and then next thing you know. there are conflicts breaking out of the park as well as down the street wall street. and real

brooklyn bridge of the other day when tens of thousands of union members rallied in new york at foley square and then march to join the occupy wall street and catmint and then some people went off to wall street to engage in civil disobedience they were the mayor pepper sprayed a few weeks before young women directly pepper sprayed in the face completely blindsiding them no no warning no reason this is an acceptable and it must. the challenge and when the police tell us to turn off our cameras that's exactly when we're supposed to be turning them on police misbehavior flourishes in the dark we need sunlight and transparency that's why it's important that reporters be there your conversations with great minds with any good in just a moment. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions it's going to break through a bit through it if you've made who can you trust no one who is in view with the global machinery see where are we heading state controlled capitalism is called sackfuls when nobody dares to ask we do our tea question more. talk about conversations

choppers every over a crowd marched from the state courthouse to foley square and then on to broadway closing down that street similar marches took place in boston and san francisco as well so what does this day of action mean for the movement as a whole that i'm joined by stephen webster senior editor ross story stephen welcome . thanks for joining us how do things go today. boy it was a really busy day of raw story and such are you seeing this we last heard website and read was happening now inside the there are. three protests so we went ahead and kicked up a special category just war are all sorted and it's been easily our most trafficked section of our website guy sysfs thought back to that it was grail at the very very good is this the tipping point for revolutionary changes in our political and economic system or is this just another. fad to sure so employ i don't know if it's a point but it's certainly a beginning i do need to see this fluid characterized as this year already for democrats because it's sold almost more than just that it's so much more than just . this really h

declare their solidarity with the occupy wall street march so there's going to be a march from foley square down to the plaza park for thirty tomorrow go to their rallies gather it for and it's going to be huge i i predict something twenty thousand people all of the labor unions the community organizations that have come out and said this is the great hope that we have to restructure the american economy so that it tends to the needs of people rather than to the whims of wealth they're all going to be out and showing their support for the projects that we've undertaken and we're all very very excited about it so that's where it goes next which is going to be visibility and hopefully increase our turnout and give hope to the many occupiers across the country kristen given the many employers first question is have you ever been arrested. long and forms and. college forms do you think that the do you think that the people who were arrested now feel feel intimidated about future activism now and i think that they realize that in the tactic that the police use to do that and that they're not goi

choppers every over a crowd marched from the state courthouse to foley square and then on to broadway closing down that street similar arches took place in boston and san francisco as well so what does this day of action mean for the movement as a whole that i'm joined by stephen webster senior editor ross story stephen welcome . scrutineers um thanks for joining us how did things go today boy it was a really busy day overall story as a treat senior this week we lost our website and read was happy coincided with the there are not all street protests so we went ahead and kicked out a special category just or are we quite well street and it's been easily our most trafficked section of the website yeah i sysfs thought back to that thought it was great looking very very good is this the tipping point for revolutionary changes in our political and economic system or is this just another. fad to sure to employ i don't know if it's a very point but it certainly would be given i do need to see this movement characterized as it's here already for democrats because it's so most more than just t

been marching shoulder to shoulder from the park where they've been situated in wall street to foley's square, near city hall and the courthouses. people packed in, listening to speeches, hearing chants, waiving arms and signs with marching bands and air horns blowing. chanting things like "we've got to unite, we've got to unite" one man saying it's time to shut down the country. do they really mean that? will that happen? we certainly know there's a lot of anger among this group. so far, as far as we know, no arrest, but they did have several hundred of them last week and because of that, there's a huge monumental police presence here standing by with a lot of paddy wagons just in case. >> susan, you hear people say, maybe this is the foundation of a liberal tea party, maybe this will become not a protest movement but a political movement. do the protesters say that's what they want or are they out there some of them venting about very different things? >> reporter: a lot of different reasons that they're out here. and they say they don't want to be affiliated with any particular party. they

labor unions, several labor unions are organizing a rally at foley square a couple of blocks away andll be marching here where they will be merging with the occupy wall street folks for an even larger rally. i'm joined by tyler, one of the protesters, who's been here practically since the beginning. tyler, why don't you describe for me what the mood is today on what people are hoping will be a very big day for your group. >> there's a palpable excitement at the plaza today in the anticipation of the over 10,000 students, community and union members that are going to join us today in support of the occupy wall street movement. we're just very excited about the potential that this rally is going to show the rest of america that you can make a change if you go out and let your voice be heard. >> reporter: you know, all along a lot of people have been asking about demands or missions statement. there has been some clarification of a missions statement. can you just summarize that for me? >> we've come up with a list of frustrations that we've been feeling, whether or not the corporate gol

in just a few minutes the unions will march from their foley square staging area to the park. there's massive walkouts across colleges, occupation is spreading, they day, montana, north carolina, southern california, and, of course, right here in new york and dozens of other campuses. a growing number of occupiers adopting get money out as their core objective to end the bought congress. we welcome them in that congress that agrees with us. congressman ron paul and presidential candidate is our first guest. you and i both know money has a toxfying effect on the nature of the debate. your thoughts on what you're witnessing around the country today. >> there's no doubt that you're on to something because the money is a big deal. i deal with it on a personal sense that money doesn't influence me and most people know that. i don't get the pac money and the lobbyists don't come and bother me, but, boy, i think this is it. people are sick and tired of it. we have to look at the big picture, too, as well. you know, there's more money in the fed who buys out the special interests and

a crowd that appeared to number several thousand jammed the rally site foley square. they put up web video showing signs and chants, as speakers condemned corporate greed and influence. organizers also called for college students nationwide to walk out of classes, as part of the protest. the "newshour's" economics correspondent, paul solman, went to the protesters base camp tuesday and filed this report on their budding movement and their concerns. >> reporter: a block away from freedom tower, literally rising from the ashes of ground zero, down the street from the new york federal reserve bank: zucotti park. home to the occupy wall street encampment. we visited to see how its activist denizens were preparing for today's big rally, though we showed up before many of them were up and about. those already awake told us they'd come from near and far. >> i'm from tampa florida. we came up via an underground network of supporters. >> i left colorado sunday evening. >> reporter: you left colorado? >> yes. that's where i live. >> reporter: so how did you get here? >> i flew.

at 3:00 p.m., labor unions are holding a large rally at foley square, just a couple of blocks away.any of the occupy wall street protesters who want to attend that are welcome to and they are invited. and then that group will be marching here to zuccotti park, where they will join forces with the occupy wall street group, and they will be holding one large rally, that will, of course, involve speakers. they're expecting thousands to attend, and they're thinking today could be their biggest day yet. i want to show you something else here. there's been a lot of discussion since this started about the fact that the organization doesn't really have a mission statement or any demands or anything like that. they have been publishing this periodic newspaper. they're calling it the "occupied wall street journal," they've been handing it out over few days. and today inside of it, they have a declaration of the occupation. this is not a list of demands, rather, it's a list of grievances towards corporations. it says things like, they have taken our houses through illegal bankruptcy procedures

several days, the big march coming together here in a city park in the wall street area up to foley squareether we'll be hearing any speeches. for now they're marching shoulder to shoulder in that area. probably a few thousand people get back here in the park where i am, other people are waiting because when they're through marching up to that square, they'll be coming back here to their main point. this is where they've been camped out for 19 days now, going on three weeks. they're trying to grow the movement. they hope by getting publicity through the social internet, more traditional media, that more people will be drawn to what they're calling a social movement, that they're angry about what's happening in the world of corporate greed and they want to effect change. they think they can do it by talking about the need for things to change and that is their expectation. they told us, wolf, today, they've been able to raise about $40,000 in donations and that they've been offered much more, but they're saying they're turning down the money because they don't want the movement to be about

>> i was there on wednesday at foley square.rustrated and angry about the financial crisis and the hope they don't see for their future. i met students that had huge student loans and no jobs, people that have lost is there homes or thele values have gone down, labor workers who were afraid they were going to lose their job. they are calling upon people like me and all of us at this table to do something about it, to listen to their concerns and act on them. i think we should take their frustrations to washington and pat's the president's jobs bill and get this economy moving again. >> the city council of los angeles just passed a resolution in support of "occupy l.a." >> but our mayor and your con stitt went, michael bloomberg, we have a little bit of a sound about what he had to say about what's going on. >> done gress >> congresswoman, what do you think about that comment? >> i think the mayor doesn't like disorder. i think he is as proud as every new yorker is of our right to exercise our first amendment. we have a long hist