HARRISBURG — The protesters of Occupy Harrisburg, the second longest-running Occupy gathering in the nation, have quietly left the central Pennsylvania state Capitol building after more than a year of protesting economic equality and what they call corporate greed.

A newspaper says the protesters’ tent — which stood at the bottom of the Capitol steps during sun, rain, wind and ice — has been removed.

“The Occupy Harrisburg movement succeeded greatly,” participant Keith Bentz of Harrisburg said Saturday. “It raised consciousness of the public. Now the election may have changed a few minds.”

He called the movement a progressive one for true change “beyond the bipolar problem” of Republicans and Democrats.

“Historically, when both sides get stale, a third group sticks its head up,” he said. “That was the Occupy movement.”

Occupy Harrisburg was one of many local actions prompted by the Occupy Wall Street protests that in the fall of 2010 in New York City and spread across the country. Participants protested Wall Street’s role in the financial crisis and sought to mobilize ordinary citizens against what they called corporate greed and the country’s persistent economic troubles.