Occupy Wall Street Enters Fourth Week as Global Protests Planned

The Occupy Wall Street movement begins its fourth week in Zuccotti Park Saturday, as protests are set to begin around the world in what the organizers call an international day of solidarity.

Calling it a global "call to action" day, protests are planned in over 951 cities in 82 countries

In New York, where it all began, protesters plan a march to Chase Bank in Lower Manhattan and a march at  the military recruiting center in Times Square. Similar protests are organized 

The movement comes days after a showdown at their park headquarters Friday, where more than a dozen people were arrested -- including one person bloodied --  as hundreds of broom-wielding protesters marched toward Wall Street shortly after the city announced the postponement of a cleanup that would've forced Occupy Wall Street members to leaver their territory, at least temporarily. 

The chaos began shortly after 7 a.m. when Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway said his office received an e-mail from Brookfield Properties, the owners of  Zuccotti Park, where protesters have been camped out since Sept. 17,  that the day-long, multi-phased cleanup would be postponed. 

Protesters had learned Thursday they would not be allowed to bring their sleeping bags or tarps back into the park when they were permitted to return, fueling skepticism that the cleanup was a pretext for eviction. 

They vowed to clean the park themselves and resist police efforts to remove them Friday morning, raising concerns about an imminent showdown between the thousand-plus protesters gathered in the park and police.

Brookfield initially asked the NYPD to assist with removing the protesters so the park, which they said was unsanitary, could be cleaned. On Thursday night, the company's CEO wrote in an e-mail to Holloway that Brookfield would defer the cleaning a few days as it tried to reach an agreement with protesters that would keep the area safe, clean and available to the public. 

After the announcement, boisterous cheers floated up from the crowds and hundreds of protesters began marching, chanting, "The people will never be defeated" and waving their brooms in the air. 

The protest began in Zuccotti Park last month, with demands that are wide-ranging. They are united, though, in blaming Wall Street and corporate interests for the economic pain they say all but the wealthiest Americans have endured since the financial meltdown.