About 200 to 300 members of the Occupy Wall Street movement marched from Ala Moana Beach Park to the Mahatma Gandhi Statue fronting Honolulu Zoo on Saturday afternoon, again raising disenchantment with the economic and political climate of the United States.

The march and protest, organized by the group Occupy Honolulu, coincided with similar demonstrations across the U.S. mainland and Europe. Honolulu police monitoring the march said it was peaceful and without incident.

While Occupy Honolulu appears to incorporate different concerns, from government overregulation to Hawaiian sovereignty, a common denominator among its supporters is that they all embrace the "we are the 99 percent" slogan adopted by Occupy Wall Street, a reference to the notion that 1 percent of the country’s population controls the nation’s financial and political power.

"It was important for us to walk through Waikiki," said student Lauren Fasso, 22. Much of the buildings and business interest in Hawaii’s tourism mecca are owned by powerful corporations, she said. The group stopped to demonstrate in front of the Trump International Hotel Waikiki Beach Walk and Hyatt Regency Waikiki.

Heald College student Justin Wistinghousen, 28, said the point of the march was to raise awareness about the growing movement against the greed of Wall Street’s top executives and how their greed has affected the lives of everyone else in the country.

Wistinghousen, who was at an Occupy Honolulu general assembly meeting in downtown Honolulu the previous weekend, said the movement appears to be gaining focus and cohesiveness. "There was a feeling of unity," he said.

A key point of division early in the week involved using the word "occupy" in the group’s name. At least some aligned with the Hawaiian sovereignty movement felt the word implied support for the United States overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893.

A compromise was reached by keeping "Occupy Honolulu" with the subheading "From the occupied aina of Hawai’i in solidarity with the peoples of occupied lands worldwide."

Hawaiian activist Laulani Teale, 44, said she and other Native Hawaiians are OK with the concept of "occupying the occupation."

Occupy Honolulu is "trying to bring about de-occupation through the occupation of the occupying power structure itself," Teale said.

Both Occupy Honolulu members and police said the group seemed to grow as Saturday’s march progressed.

Among those who joined the March midway was Alaska native Austin Tagaban, 19, who said he believes that something is wrong with the way the world’s economies have evolved — and that people can do something about it. "This is our generation."

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