Occupy Wall Street Protests

Tens of thousands flood the streets of global financial centers, the cities of the Capitol and small towns “Occupy Together” against Wall Street in Mid-Town Manhattan jammed as marches converge in Times Square. A lawyer acting on behalf of a demonstrator Collect Wall Street who was assaulted by a police officer in New York on Friday called for an investigation into the behavior of the assistant inspector, after video evidence showed the same agent engaging in rough treatment of a woman protester in a previous incident.

The American media are beginning to pay attention to the motion of the management of Wall Street and its spin-off will be built in Atlanta, Chicago, Boston and Seattle. Once again, the original call Adbusters asked: “What is our one demand?” Technically, there is none yet. The weeks leading up to September 17 NYC General Assembly seemed to veer away from the language of “requests”. First of all, especially because state agencies have already been through with corporate money that making specific demands would be useless until the movement strengthens politically.

Nearly 100 people were arrested for protesting in and around Wall Street in New York for what some refer to as the “The Arab spring of the United States.” Outraged by the way the political and financial world of the United States are handled, protesters calling themselves “99%” came together to share their grievances and demand change in the one percent of America. It was none other than Antonio Bologna, an official designated for the prosecution of several rights related to the arrests in the 2004 Republican National Convention.

From the streets of New York … the capital … the South (Mobile, Ala., Jacksonville, Florida) and West (Portland, Oregon), Americans are frustrated and are having their voices heard.

“The rich people who own giant corporations have bought off our Congress and our government, and, you know, that people no longer have a voice,” said one protester. To be fair, the reason why some journalists and public they serve see the Occupy Wall Street Protests as inconsistent, because the press and public are themselves. In all honesty, new week centered on the major Wall Street is not on protesters and their aims, but at a little pizza joint and its owners, who have made a killing on the food supply. There have been arrests, but most were due to protesters being disrespectful, and they were certainly a minority of those who represent 99%.

Proposals abound for universal voter registration, and Oregon vote by mail system resulted in more than 80 percent turnout in the last presidential elections. There are also proposals for systems of proportional representation, the election of our presidents in the referendum on the constitutional amendment banning private money from the federal election and ending the filibuster in Congress. As has become the norm for such events, this movement has been fueled by a score of social media fire, with supporters taking the Twitter hash tag # occupywallstreet. The large anonymous group of hackers have also provided support.

But in this case, I began to suspect that people abroad having a long experience in the exploitation and trampling of their dignity as human beings cannot truly may understand the cracks in our society, better than us.