Archangel
10-21-2011, 12:44 PM
So i'm sure many of you should be familiar with the Occupy Wall Street movement that's been going on for the past while. If you are, then you can mosy on down past the video below. And if you aren't, well...
The "Occupy" movement commenced as a peaceful demonstration in Wall Street to protest against corporate greed, social and economic inequality, and the grossly disproportionate amount of power placed in large corporations, particularly within the financial sector. Since then, its spread to most of the major cities in the US, and to near on a thousand cities internationally.
Most recently, in my own locality, the Occupy Melbourne protest has begun. We even got our own video from Anonymous to spur the whole shindig on, which for those interested, i'll put right about here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWB7r2vOzYg
Most recently, as in today, political leaders in Melbourne ruled that it was necessary that this series of peaceful protests be stopped, and so sent out the riot police to 'resolve' the situation.
Well, this article (http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/protesters-arrested-as-chaos-descends-on-cbd-20111021-1mb07.html) speaks for itself, really. It's worth a quick read, or at least a skim at the pictures.
With the nature of the protests being primarily non-violent, and for a cause that I can agree with, i'm inclined to say I support the movement. The prevalence of power within corporations defies the very principles of democracy that most of the 'civilised' world supposedly touts. I'd say we're tending more towards a cleverly disguised despot regime-meets corporatocracy than anything else.
Before today, I understood there was fair reason for people to be protesting. I can understand the cause, and I can even sympathise somewhat. After today, though, i'm not terribly sure that i've ever been quite so disgusted with the state of affairs in this country. The degree of force used was grossly unnecessary, and it only served to convince the world that yes, the fat-cats are abusing their power. It blows the situation well out of hand, and there is no logical justification for anyone to have made the judgment call that the police should start evicting protesters.
So yeah, just thought i'd share that. And also i'm curious to hear about the sort of thing that's been going on internationally with regards the the "Occupy" movement.
Thoughts/Comments?
The "Occupy" movement commenced as a peaceful demonstration in Wall Street to protest against corporate greed, social and economic inequality, and the grossly disproportionate amount of power placed in large corporations, particularly within the financial sector. Since then, its spread to most of the major cities in the US, and to near on a thousand cities internationally.
Most recently, in my own locality, the Occupy Melbourne protest has begun. We even got our own video from Anonymous to spur the whole shindig on, which for those interested, i'll put right about here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWB7r2vOzYg
Most recently, as in today, political leaders in Melbourne ruled that it was necessary that this series of peaceful protests be stopped, and so sent out the riot police to 'resolve' the situation.
Well, this article (http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/protesters-arrested-as-chaos-descends-on-cbd-20111021-1mb07.html) speaks for itself, really. It's worth a quick read, or at least a skim at the pictures.
With the nature of the protests being primarily non-violent, and for a cause that I can agree with, i'm inclined to say I support the movement. The prevalence of power within corporations defies the very principles of democracy that most of the 'civilised' world supposedly touts. I'd say we're tending more towards a cleverly disguised despot regime-meets corporatocracy than anything else.
Before today, I understood there was fair reason for people to be protesting. I can understand the cause, and I can even sympathise somewhat. After today, though, i'm not terribly sure that i've ever been quite so disgusted with the state of affairs in this country. The degree of force used was grossly unnecessary, and it only served to convince the world that yes, the fat-cats are abusing their power. It blows the situation well out of hand, and there is no logical justification for anyone to have made the judgment call that the police should start evicting protesters.
So yeah, just thought i'd share that. And also i'm curious to hear about the sort of thing that's been going on internationally with regards the the "Occupy" movement.
Thoughts/Comments?