Saturday, October 15, 2011

Occupy Green Bay Marchers Speak out on Day's 1st March

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Now that here in North East Wisconsin the Occupy Wall Street movement has taken hold in the form of Occupy Green Bay, one can only speculate on the extent and effect of theOcpy Gb  1st march (10) compressed protest movement.  In New York, the movement that goes by several names started out quite humbly with a few hundred student protesters.  Ocpy Gb  1st march (39) compressedGoing by Occupy Together, We Are the 99 Percent, etc., the original  Occupy Wall Street | NYC Protest for American Revolution movement has taken many names as well as many forms.  One from a corporate marketing firm may say they have “convoluted” their “name-brand” with too many titles and themes.  But so far diversity has been an asset for this leaderless movement. 
As most local corporate media outlets are limited to the amount of time they can give to the marchers, or the entire Occupy Together movement that is all of the protests throughout the nation, I felt that using this media to do more detailed interviews with some of the marchers would help get a better understanding of the movement and it’s marchers.  This is not to slam the local stations, as we do need them to cover all of the news and local stories.  Not easy with the amount of time and personnel they have. 
To listen to the “Man on the Street” who is taking his time to be part of a movement, is to better understand the core of the movement and the objectives and goals of those who make it up.  As the OccupyWallStreet movement continues to grow, those in the 1 percent will become more defensive and actively try to oppress the movement.  They will use the “class warfare” term to to describe the movement.  But if one looks closely at the redistribution of wealth in the United State over the last 40 years, one can only deduce that class warfare, at least the economic kind, has been the order of business for the top 1 percent as well as stand operation procedure for those in business.  Provide the lease, charge the most, and to hell with the people and the nation as a whole.





1 comment:

Edward said...

Thank you for doing this, Marcel. It was great to meet you this evening, to talk to you, and to take a look at your work and how you're putting out genuine coverage of the movement.