Video: Anger boils over at New York May Day protests Occupy Wall Street protesters massed outside banks, meditated in public and staged anti-corporate song and dance routines in a May Day effort to revive a movement that triggered nationwide protests against economic injustice last year. Police arrested small numbers of protesters in minor clashes around New York, chasing hundreds of marchers on Broadway, as demonstrations unfolded around the country. One march made its way along New York's busy 42nd street, past Grand Central Terminal, before stopping briefly in front of a Chipotle Mexican Restaurant, a chain that protesters say uses produce from farms were workers are mistreated and where they barely make a living wage. Although labour unions rejected Occupy pleas for a general strike, activists hailed the day's events as a step forward in the movement that had grown inactive and cash poor since capturing world attention last fall. Protesters in New York's gathered early in Bryant Park, where some formed drum circles other danced, and most just conversed and expressed themselves by holding placards. Although May Day originated in Chicago, the workers' day normally gains little notice in the US compared with other countries around the world. Inspired by the pro-democracy Arab Spring, the Wall Street protesters last year targeted US financial policies they blamed for the yawning income gap between rich and poor - between what they called the one per cent and the 99 per cent.