NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Egyptians did it for democracy. So did people in Tunisia, Yemen, Bahrain and Syria. Now, activist groups are hoping Americans will launch their own uprising -- in the form of thousands of protesters descending on Wall Street this weekend.

Occupy Wall Street is a "leaderless resistance movement" spearheaded by activist magazine Adbusters. Organizers want people to swarm into lower Manhattan on September 17 and set up camp for two months, then "incessantly repeat one simple demand."


What's that demand? They haven't decided yet.

The plan is to crowdsource the decision. Protestors are set to meet and discuss the issue at the iconic Wall Street Bull statue at noon Saturday, as well as at a "people's assembly" at One Chase Manhattan Plaza at 3 p.m.

The protestors' demand will likely be focused on "taking to task the people who perpetrated the economic meltdown," says Kalle Lasn, the editor-in-chief of Adbusters.

"The demand could be some stupid lefty thing like 'overthrow capitalism,'" Lasn says. "We're hoping it's something specific and doable, like asking Obama to set up a committee to look into the fall of U.S. banking. Nothing extreme about that."

Lasn says editors at Adbusters, which has a worldwide circulation of 100,000 readers, are angry that leaders in the financial sector "had not been brought to justice." Their inspiration came when pro-democracy uprisings broke out in Egypt on January 25 and quickly spread to other countries.

"We thought, why isn't there a backlash here?" Lasn says. "We need to shake up the corporate-driven capitalist system we're in. To do that, we needed something radical."

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I'm thinking that the protest did not go the way that they planned it to go. An article on Fox described the crowd as "hundreds" and that many were practicing their Tai Chi and yoga. About the biggest offense that I heard about was that the protesters didn't find it necessary to secure protest permits. THE HORROR!

Actually, I'm quite happy that Americans (for the most part) are smart enough to stay from this mess. It would seem that a large number of those that did show up, were from a foreign land..

Yup! Just about every picture I saw of the 'event' showed that there were more cops 'attending' than there were 'protesters'.

I would have had more respect for the protestors if they new the difference between Capitalism and Corporatism. But then again their masters, who created the mess we're in, keep convincing them that this crap we're living under is capitalism.