Why the #Occupy Movement?

"Take the Bull by the Horns" by Molly Fair

"How many laws have you changed?” King replied, “I don’t know, but we’ve changed a lot of hearts.” (“Don’t Dismiss The Drum Circles: Why Hippie Culture Is Still Important To Our Protests,” Danny Goldberg, Dissent Magazine, Accessed on October 28, 2011: http://www.alternet.org/vision/152863/don%27t_diss_the_drum_circles%3A_why_hippie_culture_is_still_important_to_our_protests/?page=entire)

The Occupy movement is not about unfocused rebellion, confusion or mass hysteria. It’s about the concentrated efforts of concerned, well-informed and involved citizens who have succinctly analyzed that the free market economic system is strictly geared toward the unruly, insane profit of 1% of our population. We are the 99% precisely because this Darwinian, non-Utopian-based system strives to oust any potential political power “we,” the people, might have in rechanneling the wealth to the needy and the middle class. This protest is about taking that power back, en masse, from every corner of the world, in order to make a more balanced, humane condition in which everyone has a fair shot at success if they work hard. When the beacon that was the ideal American model of government was extinguished by greedy corporations and an exclusive set of non-philanthropists, it became our responsibility, our right and our duty to try and re-light the torch.


In a little over two centuries, America’s experiment in democracy is going down in flames because the powerful uncompromisingly horde their power and wealth in offshore bank accounts, various forms of stock, and personal bank rolls defended by legions of special interest lobbyists, savvy accountants and scrupulous lawyers. If this ideal of democracy has any chance of being revived, then it has to be changed NOW, by us. “If Americans were to realize they’ve been the victims of Republican-style redistribution—stealing from the poor to give to the rich—the whole political atmosphere might change.” (“Have and Have Not Nation,” E. Robinson, Truthdig.com Accessed on October 29, 2011: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/have_and_have-not_nation_20111028/?ln). This is the despicable trend of Robin Hood turned on his head. And it’s media with a Marie Antoinette attitude of “Let them eat cake” when reporting on why the Occupy movement is so necessary. We can’t afford to miss this chance, in whatever way we can support the people, for we, the 99%, are the only ones who can change our own destiny and the future of our nation. We have to take our nation back by whatever means necessary.