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History of an Occupation: The Story of Occupy Wall Street, Told by the People
Fault Lines looks at how Occupy Wall Street went from a small group of New York protesters to a broad people's movement.
In the fall of 2011, New York's Zuccotti Park grabbed the world’s attention as the hub of Occupy Wall Street, a movement that set off a chain of rage against the country’s financial and political elite.
Even in the face of police repression and media ridicule, the movement mobilised thousands of people fed up with the deep economic divide in the US. And within two months hundreds of Occupy Wall Street camps swept across the country changing the political discourse in the US.
"People were upset about the economy, people were upset about the foreclosure crisis, people were upset about the bailouts, and about the fact that it looked like elected officials were working for big business rather than for the people who they’re supposed to be working for," says activist Max Rameau from Take Back the Land.
Fault Lines tells [a history] of Occupy Wall Street from its early days through the movement's rapid spread up to the brutal crackdown by state authorities.
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Show AllExcellent video." If your not part of the solution you are part of the problem" Eldridge Cleaver(?) Time to do actions, not to do the OIlybomberbot whine.
OWS has just been born, as spring arrives we will be the American giant!
Highly refreshing indeed! It began with a realization for the need to change. Then change-idea got stock: people criticized and asked it to specified and defined. There was a silence and then came mid-term elections. In the silence sparked a new consciousness, one to give orientation, courage and a 'mobilized' action. At the stage now you are beginning to see textures of clarity and concrete definition asked for earlier.
Note, wherever individuals and a people are on "need for change", often the object as in this case is the system! Where the system is tough and rough as in the US, expect no small burden for proponents of change, who might not willingly retreat or bow. But because they believe even when handicapped to put change into force, that belief sends out the positive message needed and you see the sparks you see! Things happen when they must or have to: the conditionalities as in natural laws.
The problem is we often miss seeing and appreciating. The glory is attributed to the people and yet political arguments and concrete programs marred by frustrations to put through, tend now to bear the fruit. With elections soon, the challenge is that of the "political choice" in a democracy that the OWS has however not dislocated, for dislocation was not the purpose. Make-better was! Thus, if people now join hands to make better, then we shall see clearer features to concreticize and define hence rise to illuminate the 2008 squabbles over the need to specify and define change. It was a concept then but now a manifestation has given character to it. Nothing better could have been done to democracy than this in spite of the police tortures and arests!