What is Occupy Wall Street?

What is this Occupy Wall Street that is going on in New York? Well, if you’re like me, you have no idea. So I went searching the web to find out.

According to occupywallst.org, the unofficial de facto online resource for the ongoing protests happening on Wall Street it is this: Occupy Wall Street is a horizontally organized resistance movement employing the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to restore democracy in America. We use a tool known as a “people’s assembly” to facilitate collective decision making in an open, participatory and non-binding manner. We call ours the NYC General Assembly and we welcome people from all colors, genders and beliefs to attend our daily assemblies. To learn more about how you can start a people’s assembly to organize your local community to fight back against social injustice, please read this quick guide on group dynamics in people’s assemblies.

On 13 Jul 2011, the group Adbusters released this call: Occupy Wall Street! ”In Solidarity, and as a response to this call, a planning group was formed [occupywallst.org], and an info sharing site established. The participation of every person, and every organization, that has an interest in returning the US back into the hands of it’s individual citizens is required.

Our nation, our species and our world are in crisis. The US has an important role to play in the solution, but we can no longer afford to let corporate greed and corrupt politics set the policies if our nation.

We, the people of the United States of America, considering the crisis at hand, now reassert our sovereign control of our land.”

Another Quote I found on one of their sites was: “Occupy Wall Street is leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants.”

Ok, so what are these people doing? From the start of it most of the people have been respectful to the community and property. I am sure there was some damage and unruliness with that many people. But for the most part they have kept order.  I searched the web and found some of the best video the represent the protest.  View the videos and read this entire article Here.

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