New York City Gearing Up for More Protests, Student Walkouts

Scores of students and union members are set to join the Occupy Wall Street demonstration today, as the movement continues to pick up steam and support following the arrest of over 700 protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge last weekend. 

Student groups throughout the city are coordinating mass walkouts from classes at noon today as a show of solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement.  Members of the movement have been camping out at Zuccotti Park in Manhattan’s financial district for nearly three weeks now to protest corporations and their negative influence on public policy.

The Occupy Wall Street protesters have of late also received the backing of several prominent labor unions and its members will join a union-led march at 4:30 this afternoon from Foley Square, a few blocks from City Hall, back to the Occupy Wall Street “headquarters” in Zuccotti Park.