Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York City marked the three-month anniversary of the movement by attempting to set up an encampment in a vacant lot owned by a prominent local church. Led by Bishop George Packard, a retired former supervisor of Episcopal military chaplains, demonstrators used a makeshift staircase to bypass a chain-link fence and gain access to an unused plot of land owned by Trinity Church, just blocks from Zuccotti Park. Protesters cheered and celebrated before police moved in on the square, making dozens of arrests. The attempt led to a winding march through much of Lower Manhattan and north to Times Square. New York City Council Member Ydanis Rodríguez joined the day-long protest.

Ydanis Rodríguez, New York City Council Member: “This movement has been built on the need of the working class and the middle class. This movement is not going anywhere, is not leaving this city, unless we take particular initiatives to close the gap between the 1 percent and the 99 percent.”