Revolution Round One: Occupy
Jeff Moses
For all its flaws, a few things are clear about the Occupy Wall Street movement: It’s real, it’s happening, and it’s the only movement moving.
Thousands upon thousands of Americans are converging in major cities to “stand in solidarity” against the greedy corporations that have been afforded far too much influence over the government in our country.
Many are out there saying that Occupy Wall Street has no main goal, but perhaps the main goal is just too hard to vocalize in the language which the corporate/political infrastructure of this country has made so convoluted.
The language of politics and economics are exclusionary measures taken by career politicians and economists to mask the truth and confuse the laymen that the major corporations aren’t trying to screw the middle class out of their money. It’s rather just a “supply chain malfunction leading to the downsizing of a company.”
Speaking plainly and breaking issues down as simply as possible includes the masses in the decisions which was rightfully theirs in the first place.
Others think Wall Street isn’t the most productive place to stage this protest against corporate greed.
Perhaps they’re right in a literal sense. Perhaps those freedom fighters looking to end the Fed would do better staking out Ben Bernanke’s house and roust his family from sleep with pitchforks at the break of dawn.
But in the real world, there is no bigger international symbol of greed than that famed New York City street where the stock exchange opens every morning.
We didn’t land on Wall Street; Wall Street landed on us and decided that we were not worth while, that the financial security of this country was not as important as the pocketbooks of the wealthy.
Occupy Wall Street may fail and be the last time the people of this country rise up against social injustice, or it could be the first peaceful protest of many that eventually ends corporate/political collusion and the coming class war.
What Occupy Wall Street is not is corrupt because there is no leader to bribe. It’s not fake just because the media has hardly touched the surface so far, and it would seem to me that it is not going away any time soon, at least not until the leaders of this country are held accountable for their mistakes and real lasting changes are made to the way business gets done in the United States.
