OCCUPY WALL STREET

I have come to realize that they are anti-capitalists protesting against the fact that only 1% of the world’s population control the majority of the available wealth, while the other 99% is just the rest of society. It all started on the 17^th September 2011 in NY with many people (aprox. 5.000) camping in the streets and parks trying to make their point clear: that college students, graduates and common people have no future if the situation does not change.

"There is also a sense that the standard solutions to the economic crisis proposed by our politicians and mainstream economists – stimulus, cuts, debt, low interest rates, encouraging consumption – are false options that will not work. Deeper changes are needed."

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/sep/21/occupy-wall-street-protests

“Occupy wall street was inspired by the people's assemblies of Spain and floated as a concept by a double-page poster in the 97th issue of Adbusters magazine, but it was spearheaded, orchestrated and accomplished by independent activists. It all started when Adbusters asked its network of culture jammers to flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens and peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months. The idea caught on immediately on social networks and unaffiliated activists seized the meme and built an open-source organising site. A few days later, a general assembly was held in New York City and 150 people showed up. These activists became the core organisers of the occupation. The mystique of Anonymous pushed the meme into the mainstream media. Their video communique endorsing the action garnered 100,000 views and a warning from the Department of Homeland Security addressed to the nation's bankers. When, in August, the indignados of Spain sent word that they would be holding a solidarity event in Madrid's financial district, activists in Milan, Valencia, London, Lisbon, Athens, San Francisco, Madison, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Israel and beyond vowed to do the same.”

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/sep/19/occupy-wall-street-financial-system

 “We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt. Most, I found, were of working-class or otherwise modest backgrounds, kids who did exactly what they were told they should: studied, got into college, and are now not just being punished for it, but humiliated – faced with a life of being treated as deadbeats, moral reprobates.”

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/sep/25/occupy-wall-street-protest

"The occupations around the world are being organized using a non-binding consensus based collective decision making tool known as a 'people's assembly'".

Source: http://www.occupywallst.org/about/

I think that this movement represents the anger and desperation that everyone is living throughout the entire world: we finish college and we do not find jobs that pay enough, we will keep on with debts and more debts… this simply could not continue any longer and this people stood up for everyone. Perhaps they will achieve something, perhaps not but the most relevant is that the secret of dissatisfaction is now in the open. If the wealthiest ignore what is going on, is simply because they are deaf or blind.