The Occupy Wall Street movement, which began as a protest on the streets of Manhattan last month, has made its way to Canberra.
Tomorrow at 2.30pm a group of 50 protesters plan to set up camp on the grassy slopes of City Hill to stage the provocatively titled Occupy Canberra.
Armed with digital cameras, laptops and generators, the leaderless group hope to raise awareness about inequality, corporate greed and failures in democracy.
Organiser Nicholas Brajkovic said the demonstrators would live in tents on the hill for an indefinite period of time.
''We will camp as long as we can. We will stay until they remove us, which will be long enough to make a point.''
The 22-year-old freelance graphic designer said the diverse group of demonstrators agreed on one thing; change.
''We are striking for democracy, we are suffering at the hands of capitalism and we want the public to respond and join us.''
Occupy Canberra's Facebook page already has 179 followers, but organisers expect about 50 protesters will show up.
Many Canberrans have decided to join the larger protest in Sydney, which will also begin on Saturday, outside the Reserve Bank.
As with their international counterparts, the protesters will rely on social media to spread their message.
As well as setting up a Facebook page, the group will document and broadcast their movement over Twitter and blogs.
He said the protest would be peaceful and aimed to represent 99 per cent of the population who ''are too big to fail''.
He said people were sick of the wealthiest 1 per cent of the population having undue influence on policies and everyday life.
Mr Brajkovic said while Australia's economic circumstances were not as dire as those in the United States, huge inequalities still existed.
Occupy Canberra has not applied for a permit to stage its protest.
As Mr Brajkovic pointed out, ''To get a permit to start a revolution goes against the point.''
An ACT Police spokesman said while no permit was required, he strongly encouraged protest groups to inform police of their activities.
''We support the right to peaceful protests, but if protesters are asked to move on and they don't there could be arrests.''
The movement is inspired by the Arab Spring revolutions and began with a protest on Wall Street on September 17.
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