Occupy Wall Street was in retro mode Tuesday with an acoustic concert by 1960s folk superstars David Crosby and Graham Nash — and plans for a march on Washington.
The two graying members of the legendary Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young played classic protest songs for 20-somethings whose parents weren’t yet born when the songs were new.
A sun-splashed, tent-filled Zuccotti Park turned into a mini-Woodstock as the crowd sang along to “Teach Your Children” and “Military Madness.”
“Keep going!” Crosby yelled to the crowded park. “No more war!”
In the throng was Sheldon Klasfeld, 58, who saw Crosby sing at Woodstock when Klasfeld was just 16.
“It was emotional to hear him then. It’s emotional to hear him now,” he said.
“He has a voice for the people,” Klasfeld said. “The fact that he’s here – it’s very important for the crusade.”
The youngsters were just as thrilled.
“He’s like my idol. I grew up listening to his music,” said Greg Horowitz, 22, of the Upper East Side. “This is today’s Woodstock. It’s an honor he came down.”
As he left the park, Nash told the Daily News he understood where the crowd was coming from.
“People are pissed off and they have a reason to be pissed off. They just want jobs. They want to be part of society. I’m here to help. The system is against them,” he said.
A handful of activists planned to set out from the park Wednesday on a two-week, 240-mile march to the nation’s capital. They are calling it “Occupy the Highway.”
They hope to make it to Washington – picking up additional marchers along the way – by Nov. 23, when a congressional committee is to decide whether to keep or kill Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy.
“We are marching all the way to DC,” said Angie Richards, 18. “We want to take our message to Washington.”
They will leave from Zuccotti Park, take a ferry across the Hudson to Elizabeth, N.J., and start trudging south.
Those left behind were gearing up for winter by bringing in about 45 large military tents, each of which can hold about 10 people.
“They will be much more comfortable, especially with winter already here,” said Kristine Brown, 20.
The military tents, expected to be installed Friday, will come in handy when the snows arrive, agreed Mercedes Ortiz, 18.
“It’s been really cold lately. We use whatever to stay warm — hats, sweaters — at night. Sometimes you just have to tough it out,” she said. “The bigger tents will make the winter a little more bearable.”
A protester was arrested Tuesday morning when he refused repeated requests to move for cops trying to investigate a suspicious red knapsack, police said.
It was a third arrest for Sean Vincent, 21, of North Carolina, who has been charged with slugging a cop on September 24 and with rioting on October 26.
The knapsack turned out to be harmless.
hkennedy@nydailynews.com
