This weeks reading was about a the protestors at the Occupy Wall Street movement. The articles explored the different views and opinions of the people that are taking part in the movement. There seems to be a consensus of why these people are protesting, which is economic imbalance. The other article talks about the chain reaction of these movements in New York. Movements around the world from Chile to Germany have sparked more uproars. From a couple hundred, to thousands, each movement is having their voices heard.
After reading the first article about the world movements, it amazes me what just a few people can start worldwide. Many of these people are just ordinary citizens annoyed by the greediness of corporate or government officials.
While reading the second article I realized that out of the seven people that were interviewed, I would say only one of them truly have demands and reasons why they are taking part in this movement. There maybe is a second one if you define demands as things that will help this movement or demands that are ignorant like Christopher Geist saying “I demand that my brothers and sisters get together to create a general strike worldwide.” I don’t believe that the people that are part of this movement even know why they are there. Four of the seven say they either don’t have any or play the question off by saying the people who the demands are aimed at already know what the protestors want.
The movement is supposedly fighting economic imbalance; how many of these people sitting out there who are poor have attempted or tried to get a job? I’m not saying that they all are unemployed or havent tried, but really in this day and age how many people are unemployed and just live off the welfare and unemployment with out attempting to get a job or taking in as much “free” money they can. If this whole movement is about the poverty and economic injustice then, instead of sitting protesting something that has always been and most likely will always be, I would be out searching for jobs or anything that is productive. Once again I’m not saying that this is what these people are doing, but that was just a thought that went through my mind while reading this article.