Updated 10/16/2011 05:45 PM
"Occupy Wall Street" Protesters Regroup Downtown
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"Occupy Wall Street" protestors who were planning to head back to Washington Square Park Sunday evening for a general assembly ended up staying at their base camp downtown, marking a quiet end to a wild weekend.
Earlier in the day, a tweet on the group's Twitter page read, "Tomorrow night, 7pm, same conversation with sleeping bags!"
On Saturday night, police said most protestors obeyed the midnight curfew at the Greenwich Village park, and left after being told they could be arrested.
However, 14 demonstrators did stay past midnight and were arrested.
At Saturday's assembly, protestors said their message against financial greed and economic inequality is spreading around the world.
"There's 80 countries around the world taking part, Europe, Asia, South America. It's a big movement, and I think everyone feels the same about it. There's things that people feel it's unfair and it's time to straighten it out," said protester Matt Wilson.
Protestors also took their message to Times Square on Saturday, occupying much of the area for several hours.
While the demonstration was largely peaceful, some protestors did clash with police and 42 people were arrested last night after protestors marched uptown.
Police said a large disorderly group at 46th Street near Sixth Avenue refused to disperse, despite three separate warnings.
Earlier, a skirmish broke out when a handful of demonstrators at 46th Street and Seventh Avenue tried to push through the metal barricades.
Two police officers were hurt and were taken to the hospital, including one with a head injury.
Three people were arrested in that incident.
Two dozen other arrests came when protesters occupied a Citibank branch at LaGuardia Place and refused the bank manager’s request to leave.
The demonstrators were charged with criminal trespass, and two of them were additionally charged with resisting arrest.
In all, more than 90 people were arrested in incidents throughout Manhattan on Saturday.
An organizer tells NY1 that at some point they will again attempt to occupy Washington Square Park with or without an enforced curfew.
NYPD officials say police officers have racked up at least $3.4 million in overtime dealing with protestors over the past month.
Meanwhile, donations to the "Occupy Wall Street" movement have poured in from all over in the form of medical supplies, food, and cash.
The donations are being sent in online and in person.
"The money donation that comes usually goes to things that we need for the community. We don't have donation just for our pocket. Let's say for example someone has a death in the family. And they cannot afford to go home. They come to us and we buy them a ticket and send them home things like that," said one "Occupy Wall Street" participant.
Demonstrators are also using a nearby donated storage space for personal items.
Meantime, in an interview with NY1, White House senior advisor David Axelrod said demonstrations speak to the larger problem of Americans' frustration with a slumping economy.
"We need not to view this as an isolated kind of episode. There's a tremendous amount of frustration and despair out there about what's happened in our economy. Anger for the lack of accountability on the part of some who were responsible for dragging our economy down and a real interest in focusing on what kinds of things that we can do to help," Axelrod said. "Not only get people back to work, but to help make work pay again in this country. That's what we ought to be focused on, and not the narrow issue of what's going on in any given day in the street."
Axelrod also suggested GOP presidential candidates are out of touch with Americans' anger, especially in their calls to "roll back Wall Street reform."
The "Occupy Wall" Street movement has sparked demonstrations around the world, including marches in Toronto in Canada, and European locations including Berlin, Rome, Lisbon in Portugal and Copenhagen in Denmark.