On Friday a huge crowd gathered at Liberty Plaza a few blocks from Wall Street. The demonstrators, organized by the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ group, say  ‘Our system is broken … 25 million are unemployed .. corporations, politicians, media, the police have failed as institutions’

A large police contingent tried to control the crowd that included everyone from students and trade unions to Grannies for Peace. In at an atmosphere that was part politics and part ‘Woostock’ there was music, dancing, a library, media centre, free rolled cigarettes, food and art supplies to make banners.

On Saturday, day 14, of the protest, they published and distributed a free newspaper ‘The Occupied Wall Street Journal’ . In the afternoon about 500 people from the Occupy Wall Street protest movement were arrested on New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge,