'Occupy Wall Street', US Awakening

This is amazing the 'Occupy Wall Street' Protest was getting little media coverage and then a police officer who doesn't like any kind of protest by the people, for the people and of the people decided to do harm to their cause by pepper spraying several young women in the crowd as a sort of retaliation for their peaceful demonstrations. Now many are waking up to this group's cause and perhaps will consider joining them..
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'Occupy Wall Street', US awakening
By Kourosh Ziabari

With its brutal and bloody crackdown on the peaceful demonstrators of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement, the New York police demonstrated that the United States doesn't deserve to call itself a "beacon of freedom" and cradle of democracy anymore.


"Occupy Wall Street" is a grassroots movement which aims at protesting and challenging the increasing social and economic inequality and political intolerance in the United States. The movement describes itself as a "leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions." The organizers of the movement say that the only thing which they have in common is that they constitute the 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. Journalists, political activists and citizens are the members of this popular movement, which has gained momentum after its advertisement was first published in July.

Now "Occupy Wall Street" is a member of the national network of political activists who are stepping up efforts to organize protests and demonstrations against the US government ahead of the upcoming November 2012 presidential elections. They are allied with the "US Day of Rage" movement, which is planning nationwide protests before the presidential elections. Their motto is "One citizen, One dollar, One vote" and their manifesto clearly indicates their dissatisfaction with the social, economic and political status of the country. They believe that certain interest groups and lobbies are running the United States and it's not the will and power of the people which prevails.

"Bought by hard and soft dollars, disloyal, incompetent, and wasteful special interests have usurped our nation's civil and military power, spawning a host of threats to liberty and our national security," their manifesto reads.

"Corporations, even those owned by foreign shareholders, use money to act as the voices of millions, while individual citizens, the legitimate voters, are silenced and demoralized by the farce," the manifesto adds.

The recent demonstrations and protests by the members of "Occupy Wall Street" was responded with the brutality and atrocity of the Manhattan police, which is said to have arrested some 100 people so far and injured many of them. According to New York Daily News, on September 24, "Hundreds of people carrying banners and chanting "shame, shame" walked between Zuccotti Park, near Wall St., and Union Square calling for changes to a financial system they say unjustly benefits the rich and harms the poor."

New York Times has released an amateur footage, which shows that the police forces have hit several protesters with pepper spray near the 12th St. and Fifth Ave. and injured many others using batons and sticks. According to NY Daily News, witnesses who were present at the scene of conflict have said that "they saw three stunned women collapse on the ground, screaming after they were sprayed in the face."

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[justjulie37]

I'm proud of all those standing up and making their voices heard !! It's time for all of us to stand by our beliefs. I hope this movement spreads like wildfire.

[Oceanno69]

RON PAUL or the REAL REVOLUTION WILL BEGAN! I just don't think Most Americans can imagine how BAD it will get! BUT it is COMING!

[blackeneddarkangel]

Look up the NDAA bill in congress right now. It will scare you more than anything else you've heard of.

[mbrand19971]

Love this video that has a very powerful message I sincerely hope this movement will be larger than it's ever been. In the upcoming months this movement will keep fighting till someone listens.

[eMidnighter]

Every middle class Americans should embrace & support Wall Steet Protest. The main blame is not wall street however, it is the politicians. The politians supposed to write law to regulate the limitations & prventions of any potential abuse of the biggest financial market in the world, when biggest unhistrian event happen. I am sure they were busy on lobbying how to pass the bailout law, & put the majority interests in back. & American people r to blame to ignorantly greedly, in some degree

[scaliwagcali]

@kcumm002 the 99% don't have any money to be in the stock market. That is the point. They don't have jobs, they can barely get by. Until we get the Wall Street backed politicians out of there, it will only get worse. I am not a dirty, hippie. I'm an intelligent 67 yr old woman who backs the OWS, every chance I get. I carry a sign at evey rally. I'm a proud American who is going to help take my country back from the 400 who control it all. I am one of the 150,000,000 that is getting screwed.

[lewisstretch]

The bankers are funding the OWS movement. They pay homeless people to live in tents and protest Wall Street. The bankers have hijacked our government. They are working on removing our protections afforded us by the Constitution. So, they now want one U.S. bank that everyone is going to be forced to do business with. They will say its to protect from possible terror.  Any bad investment risks they make with this news U.S. bank will be left with the taxpayer to shoulder the burden.

[railroadtrash09]

I'm part of the 99% but occupy wall street is a fucking joke! They are pissed at self made successful Americans??? Trading stocks has nothing to do with these idiots! What happened to Greece? It spent until it failed just like regulation did to our banks. The only reason they don't occupy the white house is because they all voted for Obama! Fucking idiots! Everytime I see occupiers, they look and act like a bunch of pot-heads. If immigrants can get wealthy here so can anyone else. Babies!

[diddypan]

Is that the 1 percent who dislikes?