The Wall Street Occupation by protesters began on 17 September. US corporate media are giving the protesters minimal, if any, publicity. Unions are now rallying support, and relatively modest numbers, in hundreds up to now, will soon swell to many thousands. The movement is spreading to other US cities too.
Some of the protesters have documented their complaints in photographs accessible at:
WE ARE THE 99%
The protesters' website is at Occupy Wall Street. A "Donate" button is at bar at the top of the page.
Below, a recent letter of support by Noam Chomsky:
Echoing down the years, from 1936, an excerpt from Carl Sandburg's wonderful long poem: The People, Yes (at pages 277-9):
Postcript: Astrologer Robert Phoenix was there. His 29 September piece is a good read on the topic, with some astrology included:
Wall Street Ground Zero, A Personal View, Massive Cardinal T-Square Off In Action
Some of the protesters have documented their complaints in photographs accessible at:
WE ARE THE 99%
The protesters' website is at Occupy Wall Street. A "Donate" button is at bar at the top of the page.
Below, a recent letter of support by Noam Chomsky:
Anyone with eyes open knows that the gangsterism of Wall Street -- financial institutions generally -- has caused severe damage to the people of the United States (and the world). And should also know that it has been doing so increasingly for over 30 years, as their power in the economy has radically increased, and with it their political power. That has set in motion a vicious cycle that has concentrated immense wealth, and with it political power, in a tiny sector of the population, a fraction of 1%, while the rest increasingly become what is sometimes called "a precariat" -- seeking to survive in a precarious existence. They also carry out these ugly activities with almost complete impunity -- not only too big to fail, but also "too big to jail."http://socialistaotearoa.blogspot.com/2011/09/new-zealander-on-wall-street-occupation.html
The courageous and honorable protests underway in Wall Street should serve to bring this calamity to public attention, and to lead to dedicated efforts to overcome it and set the society on a more healthy course.
Echoing down the years, from 1936, an excerpt from Carl Sandburg's wonderful long poem: The People, Yes (at pages 277-9):
When was it long ago the murmerings began
and the joined murmerings
became a moving wall
moving with the authority of a great sea
whose Yes and No
stood in an awful script
in a new unheard-of handwriting?
"No longer," began the murmerings,
"shall the king be king................................................
...............Shall a robber be named a robber when he is one
even though bespoken and anointed he is?
Shall a shame and a crime be mentioned when it is so plainly there,
when day by day it draws toil, blood and hunger,
enough of slow death and personal tragedy to certify
the kings who sit today as entrenched kings
are far too far from their people?
What does justice say?
Or if justice is become an abstraction or a harlot
what does her harder sister, necessity, say?
Their ears are so far from us,
so far from our wants and small belongings
we must trim these kings of our time
into something less than kings.
Of these too it will be written:
these kings shrank."
What is it now the people are beginning
to say - is it this?
And if so
whither away and
where do we go from here?
(from pages 277/9 of Carl Sandburg's The People, Yes.)
Postcript: Astrologer Robert Phoenix was there. His 29 September piece is a good read on the topic, with some astrology included:
Wall Street Ground Zero, A Personal View, Massive Cardinal T-Square Off In Action
