Hundreds of protestors are beginning their third week of demonstrations on Wall Street.
The Occupy Wall Street movement is calling for an end to corporate corruption and greed. Protests had been mostly peaceful until this past weekend.
New York police arrested around 700 demonstrators who were blocking traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge.
The movement has spread to other cities, including Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles.
Now keeping this crowd on the streets 'round the clock for three weeks is a difficult challenge, but local businesses are doing their part.
A restaurant donated dozens of pizzas for the protestors this weekend. Susan Candiotti reports from Wall Street.
Their message: end corporate greed they say is killing America's economy. But will they be heard in Washington?
Politicians can be bought. Political influence can be bought through political donations. This needs to be addressed.
But organizing isn't easy. Admittedly, most of the time is spent trying to figure out what they're trying to say and how to organize.
No one's in charge, that's the way they like it.
We're gathered here in this place to join to craft that mission statement, to shape a statement of what it is we want and how we're gonna get to it.
This New Jersey mother used a school holiday to take her four and five-year-old to join a peaceful protest for a day.
We are 99 percent. You know, the rich and the powerful are one percent. You know, we all need to be a lot more equal than that.
Is it hard to put together a solution?
Very hard, very hard. That's why I'm skipping all my words here.
There are so many ways you could come to the end, to a solution. But you know, in the meantime, it's just kind of just waking people up to know, you know, what's going on out there.
The New York group insists it's staying put with no exit strategy. And police say they have no plan to move them out.