There have been multiple arrests and some pushing and shoving between police and Occupy Wall Street protesters who launched their “Day of Action” this morning in lower Manhattan. At least 50 people had been arrested. Hundreds of protesters who gathered across from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan began marching toward Wall Street chanting “Occupy Wall Street, all day, all week” and “Whose streets? Our streets!”

Their goal this morning was to shut down Wall Street. According to their website, protesters claim to have blocked traders from entering the New York Stock Exchange around 9 a.m.

They also claimed that about 20 protestors locked arms and blocked access to a TD Bank while a sanitation truck blocked Beaver Street “in solidarity with OWS.”

But protesters have been greeted by a large police presence, who had essentially turned the blocks surrounding the NYSE into a large “frozen zone.”

Of course, it wasn’t completely frozen. Area residents and workers could get past police barricades by showing identification and proof they work there.

That meant that many residents, workers and children had to thread through crowds of protesters to make their way past barricades.

That triggered several shoving matches and arrests.

“You do not have a parade permit! You are blocking the street,” a police officer said through a bullhorn to demonstrators.

According to messages sent out on Twitter this morning, some protesters are wearing suits to try to blend in with the business crowd.

(Source: CBS)