About 150 South Floridians boarded buses early Monday morning to take a message to Washington along with protesters from across the country.
"The politicians offer and offer and never keep their promises," said Rosalba Campos, who is unemployed. She and her 18-year-old daughter are headed to the capital to get Congress to listen.
They joined 1Miami, a grass roots group joining demonstrators for "Take Back Our Capitol" protests this week.
"We need money out of politics and we need the end of foreclosures right now," said local rallyer Kevin Young, as he loaded bags under the bus. "Stop kicking people out of their homes."
Former student, Isis Miller, wants help with her loan debt. She says students shouldn't have to incur heavy debt only to finish school and not be able to find a job.
"There's no reason that students should go into this immense amount of debt and accrue this and not be able to pay and not be able to find jobs once they have this degree," she said. "That's not the way America was set up to be."
Many protesters plan to camp out outside the capitol building on the mall all week, then return to Miami on Friday.
