How do people feel about the movement online and offline to occupy Wall Street?

[Last True Paladin of Scotland]

Seems many people are just so angry now, can't ignore it.

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http://articles.cnn.com/2011-09-16/tech/..._s=PM:TECH

It worked in Tahrir Square. Now, taking their cue from social-media fueled uprisings in places like Egypt and Iran, a band of online activists are hoping it will work on Wall Street.

Kalle Lasn, co-founder of the venerable counterculture magazine AdBusters, has taken to Twitter and other websites to help organize a campaign encouraging tens of thousands of Americans to hold a nonviolent sit-in on Saturday in lower Manhattan, the heart of the U.S. financial district -- a protest monikered, hashtag and all, as #occupywallstreet.


This past spring and summer saw a massive groundswell of populist demonstration against authoritarian regimes in North Africa and the Middle East -- the "Arab Spring" of 2011.

In Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and Syria, protestors took the streets and occupied public spaces in protest of stagnant economies, lack of freedom of expression, and regimes which seemed more concerned with consolidating power than addressing the needs of their people.

Each of these revolutions began in a different way, but they all shared a single common denominator: They were organized and fueled by tech-savvy users of social media, particularly Facebook and Twitter. Is the U.S. ripe for protests akin to those of the Arab Spring?

"There's a very visceral anger against the financial community," Lasn said. "Many people feel that these people who are financial fraudsters, who basically got away with it, have yet to be brought to justice ... . It seems like 'We the People' now have to congregate on Wall Street and other financial districts around the world, and force the global economic system to move in a better, more just direction."

Adbuster's protest campaign began in July, with the launch of a simple campaign website calling for a march through the streets of Lower Manhattan, culminating with a sit-in at the New York Stock Exchange, just as demonstrators in Tunisia occupied Tunis' November 7 Square, or as Egyptians did in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

After a full-court-press on social media websites in mid-Summer, the campaign got a sizable boost in August from the infamous hacktivist group 'Anonymous,' which released a short video urging its supporters to participate in the sit-in.

Since then, the movement has seen the addition of planned protests in other countries, including Japan, Israel, Canada and a half-dozen European nations.
A peaceful protest is better than a riot. Also Brian ignoring the Bankers for any of the blame, is far more ignorant.

[Brian]

That it is crazy. How misdirected some people's anger is. Washington is, and has been, the problem.

[Hit Girl]

It's an ignorant move. IT will change nothing they want it to. They end up looking like a bunch of morons.

[Sophie©]

Tell me when. I'm there. I'd love to beat some of that money those Bolsheviks stole out of them.

(Listen to them -- no, no, we can't fight for ourselves. That would be too.... radical)

[FeedTheHungry]

Well...given that the corporate elite have been extracting our wealth for 30 years now - with the help of the Republican party - I’d say it’s about time.

I’d prefer that they do that in front of Republican members of Congress’ offices, though. People who work on Wall Street may be crooks, but they are so because D.C. allows them to be -- mostly because Republicans protect all their devious ways of screwing people. No different than when they protected the insurance industry, so THEY could continue to screw people.

Obama is announcing a proposal to assure that the super-rich pay the same rate as a working middle-class American does. It’s called the “Buffet Rule.” Let’s see Republicans fight against THAT one. They will, but it won’t be too easy.

[Yak Rider]

Meaningless gesture. 99% of trading is done by computers these days.