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The occupy movement that has made its way across the country has now made its impact on musical artists as well.

Jackson Browne, Yoko Ono, Third Eye Blind and Willie Nelson are just a few of the stars helping to represent the 99 percent.

Musical artists are collaborating to make an album created by the occupy Wall Street group, “Music to Occupy.”

Musical artists helping to create the album are raising financial support for the movement and to help it continue.

Members of the occupy movement are voicing their anger and raising awareness regarding the growing gap that is developing between the rich and everyone else in America.

The protestors call themselves the 99 percent. The working Americans that believe the rich are not paying their fair share of taxes.

In 2009, the compared salaries between the two groups showed a difference of 649,000 dollars between the 99 and 1 percent.

The protestors believe that the billions of dollars in bailouts that banks received during the recession resulted in a return of large profits while the rest of Americans received nothing to relieve them from unemployment and the other effects of the struggling economy.

The eviction of the protestors from public spaces around the U.S. in the past few months has left them becoming less visible and voices becoming silenced.

The creation of the album, that is planned to be released in the spring of 2012, is showing Americans around the world that the voices of the 99 will not be silenced.

This upcoming album will contain 64 musical artists supporting the movement and helping the protestors to take their next steps forward to let their points and voices be heard.