Minor skirmishes reported between protesters and police. Police used barricades to shunt demonstrators around Wall Street, and to disperse what began as a march of several hundred people into a number of smaller groups.

Protesters carried signs denouncing what they believe to be a wealthy one percent of Americans that have corrupted the country’s political and economic system with money.

Trading at the New York Stock Exchange was not disrupted, as stockbrokers and other financial workers with proper IDs were allowed through barricades into the heart of the Financial District.  Many of those workers say Occupy activists make some valid points, but that the movement is wrong to blame capitalism for the country’s political and economic problems.

Occupy activist and barber shop owner Severin Dickson says the movement got its message out even if the march on November 17 failed to literally occupy Wall Street.

The march was held to mark two months since the beginning of the Occupy movement, which has now spread to scores of American cities and around the world.