Occupy Wall Street protesters held a number of actions across the country this weekend to mark Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Here in New York City, several protesters were arrested when they refused to leave the lobby of Bank of America. Among those arrested was Occupy for Jobs organizer Larry Holmes. He said he was participating in civil disobedience to honor King’s legacy.

Larry Holmes: “In his latter years, meaning the years before he was assassinated, he became convinced that while the ability to sit in a formerly segregated restaurant was absolutely important, if you didn’t have money to buy the food, then you only had gone halfway. And his hope was to launch a new civil rights struggle for the right to a job. And that’s absolutely relevant to the depression-level unemployment and underemployment that we have in this city and this country.”