People signed up to speak five minutes each.
/ Lindsey Theis
More than 50 of Myrtle Beach area residents joined the first Myrtle Beach Occupy Wall Street movement Saturday.
A group gathered in Chapin Park, where dozens of people took their turns speaking for five minutes each.
"We're not being represented the same as everyone," Carol Sims said.
Supporters of the "We Are the 99 Percent" movement have created an Occupy Myrtle Beach Saturday say they found out about the event y an Occupy Myrtle Beach Facebook page.
Protests outside the state house in Columbia and Charleston have been going on for at least two weeks each.
The movements follow the national protests started by Occupy Wall Street. The groups define themselves as a "people-powered movement". The first occupy protest began on September 17, 2011 in Liberty Square in Manhattan's Financial District. Over the past month, the movement has spread to more than 100 cities in the United States.
