Occupy Wall Street - one year later, general thoughts

[concise]

Tomorrow, September 17, marks the one year anniversary of this movement.

A couple of people got arrested marching down Broadway, but I'm surprised at how quickly this movement fizzled out of the national consciousness.

I guess the fact that no actual focused voice came back to hurt them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/nyregion/several-arrests-at-occupy-wall-street-march.html

25 Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested as group gathers in Washington Square Park, prepare for Monday morning march in lower Manhattan - NY Daily News

 

[john goodman]

Didn't accomplish anything and they pussied out this year

The ONLY issue they should have talked about was campaign finance reform, might've actually had a chance of changing the convo in America

The message was too vague and diverse to make it any real difference

 

[OsO]

its still going on, just more low key.

trust, you have not heard the last of OWS lol, not by a long shot.

and they're going to be even stronger when they remerge because a lot of them learned from what happened in the beginning and got more organized and informed.

they're definitely going to play a big part in flipping this whole shyt, because theyre already a population who understands (at least in part) the nature of the threat, and who are ready, willing, and able to implement the necessary solutions. which in both cases puts them over 80% of the population.

 

[SumBlackguyz]

if there was a general focal point that everyone could relate to, this would have taken way off. but so far it just looks like a million people making noise about a million different topics

 

[Hussein Fonzarelli]

OWS has been the greatest representation of the free speech liberty backed by your own very beloved politicians

 

[PortCityProphet]

it got absolutely nothing accomplished

 

[Liquid]

OWS is the perfect example of what I have been preaching to everyone who seems to forget history.

nothing, NOTHING that tries to accomplish a massive movement on this level will get anywhere unless violence is involved. Its tough to accept, but its true. Those people at wall street did not feel threatened...they were merely a nuisance that they got used to dealing with.

 

[Type Username Here]

It failed when it become a democratic recruitment tool and allowed known partisan Democrats to associate themselves with the movement, all the while a Democratic President was sending Homeland Security and FBI assets to assist in its dismantling.

 

[Captain Crunch]

OWS is the perfect example of what I have been preaching to everyone who seems to forget history.

nothing, NOTHING that tries to accomplish a massive movement on this level will get anywhere unless violence is involved. Its tough to accept, but its true. Those people at wall street did not feel threatened...they were merely a nuisance that they got used to dealing with.

Gahndi and the Civil Rights Movement

It failed when it become a democratic recruitment tool and allowed known partisan Democrats to associate themselves with the movement, all the while a Democratic President was sending Homeland Security and FBI assets to assist in its dismantling.

Aware me on that.

 

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

Their message failed to resonate with other people.

When it first kicked off I was all for it! I was proud of it. I felt it was more legitimate than the Tea Party.

I liked how it represented the abuse by Wall Street for getting bailed out by taxpayers dollars and in turn were not doing much to return that favor back to the American people but instead gave historic level bonuses to record execs. I like how it stood against the central banking system and fat cats that abused and manipulated the capitalist/free market society.

But then..it just got ridiculous. In Denver (Occupy Denver) it just got out of hand. Tons and TONS of People/Homeless people sleeping in the streets, tents blocking off regular traffic so everyone else that DID have a job had a hard time getting through to make it in on time. On top of that the message just got muddled with spontaneous, random protest across the country. I got tired of hearing about it because I felt the original message got sidestep and then it just looked like an excuse for young ppl to rebel, wreck havoc and, I'm sorry to say it, but b!tch CONSTANTLY about anything that bothered them.

 

[daze23]

it was all staged :tinfoil:

 

[Type Username Here]

Aware me on that.

FOIA Documents Show FBI Was Watching Occupy Protestors, Some Docs Still Secret on National Security Grounds

Justice Dept: Homeland Security Advised Raids On Occupy Wall Street Camps: Gothamist

 

[Slystallion]

Paled in comparison to what the tea party accomplished...tea party won the 2010 elections

 

[DANKTHRONE]

I am too pessimistic to be a protesting type but one of the "intellectual ringleaders" of OWS wrote this book Debt: The First 5,000 Years: David Graeber: 9781933633862: Amazon.com: Books which is one of the best academic books for a popular audience ever. I never knew that anthropology, archaeology and comparative history could be so entertaining and so relevant to modern life. Seriously read from Chapter 8 onwards. (The worst section are the middle chapters on "Primordial Debt" which is mildly interesting but hardly convincing.)

READ THIS BOOK here is a link:

Debt: The First Five Thousand Years (David Graeber) | The Anarchist Library

 

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

Paled in comparison to what the tea party accomplished...tea party won the 2010 elections

With much regret