It was unclear whether the event would feed a resurgence of Occupy after a winter hiatus.
In New York, the Occupy movement lost significant momentum in November when a pre-dawn sweep broke up the encampment at Zuccotti Park. Occupy protests in Oakland, California, in January led to police firing tear gas into crowds of protesters and more than 200 people were arrested.
Since last fall, when scores of demonstrators set up a vigil in lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park and Occupy boasted it had $500,000 in the bank, donations have slowed to a point where Occupy was left in a cash crunch earlier this year.
In recent weeks, small groups of New York protesters have taken to camping out in different locations, including across the street from the New York Stock Exchange.
(Additional reporting By Dan Burns and Jennifer Marostica; Editing by Doina Chiacu and Bill Trott)
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