Friday, October 14, 2011

Occupying

Please try to understand. It's not about anti-government, anti-corporation, or even anti-rich/anti-money. It's about anti-government-for-the-corporate-dollar (where money is considered speech, and corps. are considered people without accountability) instead of for the *people*; anti-corporations-with-astronomic-inequality between CEOs, those they still employ (working more than 40/hrs a week because they are carrying double loads just to stay in the running to keep their jobs), huge profits paired with huge bailouts, bonuses, and lay-offs; and anti-rich-without-working-for-it or having compassion for those who desperately want to work. There is a message, though the causes and solutions are too complex to turn into a simple slogan. If you pass them off as extremist, leftists, anarchists or communists you are not listening and are completely missing the point.

1 comment:

john_m_burt said...

That is how I see it, Amber. I find it frustrating how people project their fantasies and anxieties onto OWS (much as they did with Candidate Obama), or profess to be confused about "what 'they' want".