Folk music and 1960s protest legend Pete Seeger has joined in the Occupy Wall Street protest, replacing his instruments with two canes as he marches with throngs of people to Columbus Circle.
The 92-year-old Seeger occasionally sang 'We Shall Not be Moved' and other anthems of protest as about a thousand people walked peacefully Friday and police watched from the sidelines.
Composer David Amran and bluesman Guy Davis were also in the crowd.
Peace activist: Pete Seeger, 92, (centre, in a red cap) started work as a political activist in the 1930s, and his biggest hit was peace anthem 'Turn, Turn, Turn!'
Generations of awareness: Tao Rodriguez Seeger is Pete Seeger's grandson and is also a politically-involved folk singer
Tao Rodriguez Seeger said his activist grandfather was 'all fired up' about the late-night march after their scheduled performance with other musicians earlier at Symphony Space.
The younger Seeger, a New Orleans resident, said music may not change everyone's minds but it can help people get along better.
More than one-third of the country supports the Wall Street protests, and even more - 58 per cent- say they are furious about America's politics.
The number of angry people is growing as deep reservoirs of resentment grip the country, according to the latest Associated Press-GfK poll.
Some 37 per cent of people back the protests that have spread from New York to cities across the country and abroad, one of the first snapshots of how the public views the Occupy Wall Street movement.
A majority of those protest supporters are Democrats, but the anger about politics in general is much more widespread, the poll indicates.
'They've got reasons to be upset, they've got reasons to protest, but they're protesting against the wrong people,' Jan Jarrell, 54, a retired school custodian from Leesville, South Carolina, says of the New York demonstrators.
'They need to go to Washington, to Congress and the White House. They're the ones coming up with all the rules,' she said.
The approval rating comes the same day as the protesters were joined by Verizon Communications workers in a march to denounce corporate greed as the company and 45,000 employees negotiate a new labour contract.
The march by about 500 people to a Verizon store in Lower Manhattan coincided with the top U.S. mobile provider reporting a third-quarter profit of $1.38 billion, more than double its profit for the same quarter last year.
Spiritual support: The New York chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations held Friday prayers at Zuccotti Park in New York
Coming together: Like Friday's prayer group, Zuccotti Park has been visited by many groups supporting different causes and points of concern
Occupy Wall Street has been called the liberal counterpoint to conservative-libertarian tea party, which injected a huge dose of enthusiasm into the Republican Party and helped it win the House and make gains in the Senate last fall.
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