LIers on the lines keeping Wall Street 'occupied'

After several days of "occupying" a park near Wall Street, Guy Steward knows the lay of the land -- which restaurant has outlets for charging his cellphone, which has bathrooms to wash up in and which has the best pizza.

"Liberatos has been great. People have been calling them to buy pizzas for us and having them delivered here," he said.

A dogged denouncement of what they term "corporate excess" has kept Steward, 18, of Huntington Station, and hundreds of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators camped out since Sept. 17 in a plaza north of the city's financial heart.

They have live-streaming video of their activities, a YouTube channel called "TheOther99Percent" -- a reference to the statistic that 1 percent of the population now owns about 40 percent of its wealth -- and several Twitter accounts.

Many protesters have come from as far as California, and for several Long Islanders Manhattan is a stop in travels just as wide.

Ashley Straw, 23, of Medford, an actress and writer, said she is crisscrossing the country by bicycle to attend political rallies and participate in other protests.

Chris Longenecker, 24, raised in Baldwin, said he saved up earnings from his last job to finance his six-month backpacking trip.

The camp has created a working draft of their "principles of solidarity," he said. It includes a call to exercise "personal and collective responsibility."

Longenecker, who hopes to attend graduate school for international relations and human rights, explained, "We're an autonomous community, and we decide everything by consensus."

The protesters hold general assemblies to organize their diverse set of demands -- Smithtown-born Yvonne Gougelet, 28, for example, wants the energy conglomerate BP held accountable for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill -- and to embark on the occasional march down Wall Street.

They are monitored closely by police, who Saturday arrested at least 80 of them.

Rheannone Ball, 19, a graduate of Southampton High School living in Brooklyn, said she was arrested on disorderly conduct charges and jailed for 28 hours.

She was back at Occupy Wall Street hours after her release, rallying for the reform of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

"Even when I was in Southampton, I was a baby muckraker there following protests," said Ball, a dog walker. "This one has the resources to succeed. It's part of a global movement. I've been following it since Tahrir Square, watching it move from country to country, and now it's here."

Steward, who said he dropped out of Huntington High School in December, has been working odd jobs in construction. He said "Occupy Wall Street" has ironically provided him structure. "It's weird to wake up every morning and have to be somewhere."

It's also lit the activist fire within him. He has his sights set on a Boston protest.

Until then, he said, "I'm going to be here until I'm occupying something else."