There's a new newspaper on Wall Street, and it's targeting a very different demographic than the classic publication. The Occupied Wall Street Journal, a newspaper dedicated to the Occupy Wall Street protests that began on Sept. 17, distributed its first issue on Saturday.

Backers on crowdfunding site Kickstarter have picked up the printing bill for 50,000 copies and have already chipped in enough money for a second issue. The New York Times says that at the time of its first issue, the paper had raised more than its goal of $12,000 using the site. At this point, that number is close to $54,000.

"PLEASE KEEP CONTRIBUTING! We don't have billions like FOX News nor are we bankrolled by the Koch brothers," reads an update to the paper's Kickstarter page. "We only have YOU! You have our tremendous gratitude, but this money will only pay for two issues."

Resulting pledges have put The Occupied Wall Street Journal in ranks with Kickstarter's most funded projects in the writing and publishing category. It's just $2,000 behind the periodical in the section with the most funding, a website for smart sports writing.

The four-page first issue of the protest's paper includes profiles of protesters, instructions on how to help the movement, a map of Zuccotti Park (where a group of protesters have been camping out since Sept. 17) and a rundown of the protest's third week by Arun Gupta, one of the paper's founders and a senior editor of a free newspaper called The Indypendent.

Most Kickstarter backers of the paper receive either a heartfelt thank you or mail delivery of the product. Those at higher levels of investment get their return through a collection of books about economic inequality.

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