in VOA Special English.Protests that began last monthnear Wall Street in New Yorkhave now spread to other American cities.The Occupy movement differsfrom the Tea Party movement.Tea Partiers blame big governmentfor the country's economic problems.Occupiers blame big business.One young activist puts it this way.MAN: "I feel like the middle class has beenalmost completely wiped out nowNow, you have got the bottom classand the top class."Susan Arnett came from Californiato attend an Occupy DC rallyin Washington on Thursday.SUSAN ARNETT: "It is about the war.It is about the corruption.It is about the greed."Many protesters said they were inspiredby the Arab Spring movement and protests in Europe.Lourdes Parallobre of Miami saysshe is about to graduate from a universityand owes twenty thousand dollars in student loans.LOURDES PARALLOBRE: "I have an endless amount of friendswho have master's degrees, bachelor's degrees,and are working in restaurants.And I am terrified that is going to happen to me."The protesters marched to the United StatesChamber of Commerce and denouncedthe business interests that the group represents.WOMAN: "They are sitting on two trillion dollarsin profits right now, corporations are.Their taxes are at their lowest level in fifty years.Our unemployment rate is at nine percent."The marchers also stopped outside the White House.Inside, at a news conference,a reporter asked President Obama about the movement.BARACK OBAMA: "Obviously I've heard of it.I've seen it on television.I think it expresses the frustrationsthat the American people feel,that we had the biggest financial crisissince the Great Depression,huge collateral damage all throughout the country,all across Main Street,and yet you're still seeing some of the same folkswho acted irresponsibly trying to fight effortsto crack down on abusive practicesthat got us into this problem in the first place.So, yes, I think people are frustrated,and the protestors are giving voiceto a more broad-based frustrationabout how our financial system works."(SINGING: "Wall Street is full of clowns,Wall Street is full of clowns.")Occupy Wall Street protesters have campedin New York's financial districtsince the middle of September.Police have made hundreds of arrestsfor blocking traffic.On Wednesday members of labor unionsand community groups joined the demonstrations.SPEAKER: "They said they needed to rescue Wall Streetand the Big Three automakers to stimulate the economyand that meant jobs.Three years later, there is still no jobs!"The rally included truck drivers, teachers,nurses and transportation workers.Protesters say the wealthiest one percent of Americanscontrol too much of the nation's wealth.The protesters saythey represent the other ninety-nine percent.Jason Ahmadi, an organizer, saysthe movement's demands are still a work in progress.JASON AHMADI: "Everybody is coming here for their own reason,and we're still shaping unity,and we're coming together,but we're also constantly growing.So it's very difficult to, you know,to make a claim about a demand of the ninety-nine percent."He notes some of the other citieswhere protests have taken place.JASON AHMADI: "You know, occupy Los Angelesjust happened the other nightwith three hundred and fifty people, I hear.In San Francisco, in Boston, in Chicago.A lot of us are, you know, inspiredby things going on in North Africa,in Spain, in Greece, in London.So, you know, I think this is really somethingI'd like to see as a global movement that's starting."And that's IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.