Micah Miller is a mild-mannered English major at Kent State Stark who is readying for the start of a revolution of sorts Saturday in Canton.He is masterminding the area’s first announced Occupy Together event, an imprint of the Occupy Wall Street protest that began last month in Manhattan for “participatory democracy” driven by the people.Nationwide, more than 1,400 communities have Occupy Together events up and running or assembling with wide-ranging complaints about corporate greed, the war in Afghanistan, the banking system, homelessness and other issues.Their mantra is that 99 percent of people are worse off, while 1 percent are doing much better than ever.In Ohio alone, volunteers in 11 communities are scrambling to pin down meeting sites for their own Occupy events via the social network sites Twitter and Facebook.On Wednesday, Akron organizer Neil Weakland announced that daytime occupation of Cascade Plaza in downtown Akron would begin at 11 a.m. Friday and continue “until this thing is over.”Weakland, a 28-year-old Internet marketer for Murdock Industrial in Akron, said he’s trying to get city permission to erect structures and stay overnight on the plaza.As the granddaddy of the Ohio events at 8 days old, Occupy Cleveland’s volunteers have marched through downtown, “occupied” City Council chambers and city parks and slept on sidewalks with four donated portable toilets at the ready.Weekend attendance has been “upwards of 300,” with anywhere from 30 to 64 people spending the nights, said Erin McCardle, 23, a Cleveland artist and production and stage manager who is helping to organize the fledgling movement.“We’re not saying we have the answers,” McCardle said. “What needs to happen is a genuine, honest, democratic discourse. What we’re all learning is how to communicate in a system where every person is equal.”In Canton, Miller, 22, is asking several people who lost their jobs, health care or retirement savings to address his noon People’s General Assembly at Central Plaza South in downtown Canton.He won’t be a speaker, but he knows of what he speaks: He and his mother lost their health insurance when she lost her job.“[We’re] stepping forward to demand our voices be heard and that policy be carried out for the betterment of all people, not just the privileged few,” Miller wrote in his introductory media release. The economic and political process “has been manipulated by unelected, unaccountable corporate interests.”Attendees will spend a few hours airing their concerns before developing a pledge that Miller will forward to local, state and national politicians by mail Monday.He’s getting a $100 permit from the city of Canton to hold the event for an estimated 500 to 800 people, but has not suggested that they will “occupy” the plaza, city project manager Derek Gordon said.Whether that would be allowed “would be decided on a case-by-case basis,” he said.In the meantime, Miller is getting support from the likes of the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 94, which is helping to publicize the assembly.Union business agent Dave Kirven said he would attend because he is intrigued and because, he said with a laugh, he is “waiting for the revolution.”“The vibes keep getting bigger between the corporation and the workers,” he said. “Everybody’s so angry right now.”Interest is surging, Miller agrees.“The emails have not stopped, and they’re not going to stop,” he said. “This is a movement.”Carol Biliczky can be reached at cbiliczky@thebeaconjournal.com or 330-996-3729.