WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Friday marks the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, and opponents of the war have been planning a demonstration in Washington for months. Meanwhile, just a few weeks ahead of the planned protest, an anti-Wall Street movement sprung up in New York and caught fire across the country.

This evening, labor support for the Occupy Wall Street movement will be on full display, as union members march from New York City Hall to Liberty Plaza.

The increasing labor and left support for the Occupy Wall Street movement will be on full display this evening, as members of unions and long-time community groups march from New York City Hall to meet the occupation activists in Zuccotti Park, AKA Liberty Plaza. The march arrives as the two-week-old occupation is capturing national media attention, receiving ugly police pushback, and spawning dozens of actions across the United States.

The protracted global economic depression is sending the economies of even advanced capitalist countries such as the United States and members of the European Union on a tailspin. Despite fits of financial convulsions due to the bursting of economic bubbles and now EU countries threatening to default on their sovereign debts if not bailed out, most official quarters still minimize the extent and depth of the crisis of global capitalism.

NEW YORK, Sep 30, 2011 (IPS) - Since Sep. 17, hundreds of demonstrators in the Occupy Wall Street movement have transformed the quiet Zucotti Park in lower Manhattan from a place where Wall Street traders once relaxed during lunch breaks into a demonstration camp.