Occupy Wall Street is entering its third week. Its numbers continue to increase. Yesterday over 700 demonstrators were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge. Despite mainstream media's best efforts, this story is getting hard to ignore.
Spin off demonstrations have cropped up in Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Albuquerque. What the hell is this about, you ask?
It's about bailing out the banks with public money while social programs get slashed. It's about a financial industry that learned after 2008 it really could get away with anything, take any risk and the U. S. Government would step in (with public money) when it started to crash and burn. Financial institutions get the goldmine, the 99 percent get the shaft.
It's about young people graduating from college with mountains of debt who cannot find jobs.
It's about people who have just about had enough of the inequity, the unfairness, the injustice of a system that has lost its way.
Ah well, tomorrow the media plan minute-to-minute coverage of the Amanda Knox case in Italy and the trial of Michael Jackson's lawyer and the dampers once again will be in place.
If it's not on the nightly news, it's not happening, right?
Then again, 700 arrests in one afternoon on the Brooklyn Bridge is kind of hard to ignore.
Here's what I think...
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Like your title reference to the CSNY song For What it's Worth. Thank you for encapsulating what is going on so succinctly. I had not heard about the 700 arrests (reports I heard/read said "numerous.") It would appear the media is intent on downplaying these events to keep the status quo. Kudos to those from all walks of life who are refusing to accept this and are taking action to try and effect change. Change is not going to happen until the masses clog all the avenues around these financial institutions and the smug thieves who reside within are made accountable, indicted, tried and hopefully jailed for their crimes. As you mentioned in an earlier post, what is happening is eerily reminiscent of civil rights demonstrations of the 60's, the only thing missing are the fire hoses! It's time for all of us to abandon our complacency and act.
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