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OccupyPittsburgh -- in solidarity with the global Occupy movement that is drawing attention to corporate, economic and social issues-- will hold rallies and a march on Saturday.

Marchers will meet at 10 a.m. at Freedom Corner on Centre Avenue in the Hill District. After a short rally at 11 a.m., the group will march toward Downtown, following Grant Street, Liberty Avenue and Wood Street, ending at Market Square, where a larger rally will begin at 1:30 p.m. and end at 3 p.m, according to OccupyPittsburgh's website.

The site said the Occupation of Pittsburgh begins at 4 p.m. at Mellon Green, Grant Street and Sixth Avenue.

The organizers received a permit from city police Thursday afternoon to host the march and rallies Saturday, a posting on the OccupyPittsburgh website said.

"The local offshoot of a global movement protesting corporate, economic and social issues plans to target corporate headquarters Downtown," the posting states.

"Saturday will see Pittsburgh join the hundreds of cities across the country and hundreds more overseas where the Occupy movement has taken hold."

"Known in New York City as OccupyWallStreet, there are now more than 1,000 cities in the U.S. and overseas where some sort of occupation-style movement has begun," the website continues. "OccupyPittsburgh has been developed by residents of Southwestern Pennsylvania in harmony and solidarity with the 99% Occupy movement.

Participants will , next to BNY Mellon headquarters on Grant Street, a property belonging to a subsidiary of BNY Mellon, organizers said.

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