At its Web site, www.occupywallstreet.org, the organization said Friday there would be more than 951 cities in 82 countries demonstrating in concern on Saturday, Oct. 15.
More than 100 such protests are said to be taking place in the United States alone this weekend, including one in Lakeport and one in Clearlake.
In Lakeport, the demonstration will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the corner of Fifth and Main Street.
In Clearlake, protesters will gather from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Cooper Tires parking lot at the corner of Olympic Drive and Old Highway 53 and Burns Valley Road.
Lake County Peace Action held a similar demonstration in Lakeport on Oct. 6, and Occupy Wall Street protests have been making their way around other areas of the North Coast, including Santa Rosa and Napa.
The nationwide movement is composed of people identifying themselves as “the 99 percent” – those who are losing their jobs and homes due to the country's deep recession, which they blame on the banking industry.
The top 1 percent, meanwhile, holds more than one-third of the entire country's wealth, according to an Economic Policy Institute analysis.
Thus Main Street is taking its battle to Wall Street, and gaining friends along the way in the form of unions and powerful organizations like the California Teachers Association, which said Friday it endorsed the movement and that it embraced the call to raise taxes on the rich, to reregulate the banks, and to enact a financial speculation tax.
Such actions, the group said, will restore public budgets for schools and other vital services, and set California and the rest of the country “back on a road to democracy and prosperity.”
The national chapter of the Sierra Club also has endorsed the movement, noting in a statement, “Corporations that pollute our air, land and water, that put greed ahead of community good, public health and the nation's economic well-being must be held fully accountable. In our work around the country, we have seen first-hand how international coal and oil companies have wrecked communities, polluted our environment, and dominated the political process. We stand with Occupy Wall Street protesters in saying 'enough.'”
Information on local meetups and protests can be found at www.occupytogether.com. More information about the movement and the protests can be found at www.occupywallstreet.org, https://www.facebook.com/OccupyWallSt and can be followed on Twitter at https://twitter.com/#!/OccupyWallSt.
The Tumblr site, www.wearethe99percent.tumblr.com, also shares the stories of people taking part in the movement.
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