Can’t get to Wall Street to protest fat-cat bankers and the decline of middle class earning power? How about Hartford?

Something called the First General Assembly of “Occupy Hartford,” a spinoff of the New York protests that began three weeks ago, will occur twice during the day on Wednesday, across from the Holiday Inn in the capital city’s historic Bushnell Park, according to Kerri Provost on The Real Hartford website. The gatherings at 8:30 and 5 are being called “consensus-building sessions” and not protests. Here’s the web address:

http://www.realhartford.org/author/kerri/