Occupy Protesters Start March From NYC To DC [VIDEO]

Dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters have started a two-week walk from New York to Washington.

The activists left Manhattan's Zuccotti Park on Wednesday. They planned to resume their walk in New Jersey after taking a ferry.

They hope to arrive in Washington by Nov. 23. That's the deadline for a congressional committee to decide whether to keep President Barack Obama's extension of Bush-era tax cuts. Protesters say the cuts benefit only rich Americans.

They hope to pick up other participants along their 240-mile march.

They've likened the effort to long-distance walks led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights era. They say they'll overnight by camping or at volunteered accommodations.