The rally included truck drivers, teachers, nurses and transportation workers.
Protesters say the wealthiest one percent of Americans control too much of the nation's wealth. The protesters say they represent the other ninety-nine percent.
Jason Ahmadi, an organizer, says the movement’s demands are still a work in progress.
JASON AHMADI: "Everybody is coming here for their own reason, and we're still shaping unity, and we're coming together, but we're also constantly growing. So it's very difficult to, you know, to make a claim about a demand of the ninety-nine percent."
He notes some of the other cities where protests have taken place.
JASON AHMADI: "You know, occupy Los Angeles just happened the other night with three hundred and fifty people, I hear. In San Francisco, in Boston, in Chicago. A lot of us are, you know, inspired by things going on in North Africa, in Spain, in Greece, in London. So, you know, I think this is really something I'd like to see as a global movement that's starting."
And that's IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Alex Villarreal.
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