POTSDAM -- Plans for Saturday’s Occupy Wall Street march in Potsdam have people meeting in Ives Park at 11 a.m. before marchers move around the village’s downtown.

The local movement, spurred by students from Clarkson University and SUNY Potsdam, wishes to attract people from around the community to join them.

Communication among intended participants has been through media such as Facebook and by word of mouth and old-fashioned email.

This local demonstration apparently has been inspired by the New York Occupy Wall Street demonstrations and the multitude of similar protests, marches and demonstrations around the country and the world calling attention to greed and the moral corruption it engenders.

Since the first protesters gathered in Lower Manhattan’s Zucotti Park a month ago, protests have popped up in dozens of major cities around the world, including London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Tokyo, and South American capitals, and in cities and towns throughout the U.S., as well as the nearby Canadian cities of Montreal and Ottawa.