Thousands of activist arrived in Washington DC, after a ten day, 140-mile (225km) march from Philadelphia's Liberty Bell, in protest against corruption in politics.

Starting today, April 11th, thousands of Americans will sit-in on the US Capitol in Washington, DC in what will be the largest act of civil disobedience this century.

According to Russia Today the protest appears to have broken the record for the number of people arrested at the US Capitol.

Police announced they "ran out of space" for arrested activists, Ruptly's Paulina Leonovich reported.

At least 10 buses have been used to transport arrestees from the sit-in at the Capitol.

"People are fed up with the system, they are fed up with the corruption, and we want free and fair elections," Cenk Uygur, host of the TV show Young Turks and one of the participants in the protest, told RT. "This is our core American right."

Arrests being lined up in front of a police bus. #DemocracySpring

"The fight begins today. It doesn't mean we win today. But in the end, we always win," Uygur said. "Progressives have never lost. We won in civil rights, we won in women's rights, we won in gay rights, and we're going to win in getting our democracy back."

With the goal "to claim the democracy we were promised", various advocacy groups headed up by Ralph Nader's Public Citizen and 99Rise.org, plan to hold a "mass sit-in" over the next eight days in the hope of persuading Congress to tackle "corruption of big money in politics and ensure free and fair elections", according to campaign director Kai Newkirk.

In addition to putting their bodies on the line, activists will use technology to hold "call-in days", submit online petitions, and organize "Twitter storms" to raise awareness of their campaign, which they have described as "one of the largest civil disobedience actions in a generation."