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Dozens of people gathered at Fordham Plaza on Saturday to participate in Occupy Wall Street protests that have spread to the Bronx.

Protesters came together to voice their concerns about a variety of social and economic issues.

“I think that this is a great opportunity for the people of the Bronx to get together and form an alliance with others, for us to really get out there and to be able to start demanding what it is that we should have had all the time, which is our fair share of resources,” said facilitator Lisa Ortega.

Ortega said it was only a matter of time before the movement spread to the Bronx which contains the country’s poorest congressional district.

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