What isOccupy Denver? If you look online, orespecially on social media avenues like Facebook, you are likely to get a widerange of opinions about Occupy Wall Street and more specifically, the Occupy DenverMovement. Some feel it is the movementthat will save our country whiles others that think it is nothing more than awaste of tax payer's money and that everyone involved should be thrown in jail.
If we gostraight to the source, Occupy Denver,according to their website, œis a leaderless resistance movement with people ofmanycolors, genders and politicalpersuasions. The one thing we all have in common is thatWe Are The 99%that will no longer tolerate the greedand corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionaryArab Springtactic to achieve our ends andencourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants.This movement empowers realpeople to create real change from the bottom up. We want to see ageneralassemblyin every backyard,on every street corner because we don't need Wall Street and we don't needpoliticians to build a better society.
The goal again, according to the website, œaims to expose how the richest 1% of people are writingthe rules of an unfair global economy that is foreclosing on our future. This is anobvious reference to the well-known statistic that the top 1 percent ofhouseholds in the United States own somewhere between 30 to 40 percent of allprivately held wealth.
This helpsto clear up the issue a little more, but to get an even clearer answer, I askedavid Occupy Denver supporter, Irene Glazer, what Occupy Denver means toher. According to Irene, œthe movementis about taking our government back and making it work for those of us whocannot afford a lobbyist. The point ofthe Occupy movement is not that corporations are evil and greedy and that thegreed needs to end. For me it is verysimple: I do not want my government run by the corporation for thecorporation. Start the reforming here,and life will get a whole lot better.
Based onthe insight I got from Irene, and the various articles I have read, the messageof Occupy Denver seems to be a simple one: Big money is what is running ourcountry and that the 1% who have the majority of the money are the onesdeciding the policy of our country regardless of whether this policy representsthe needs of the other 99%. The movementbelieves it is time for the needs of the 99% of the country to be heard, notjust those with the deepest pockets.
Ofcourse there is plenty of commentary available online about the movement and Iencourage you to read various opinions to decide for yourself what the movementreally is all about. One of the betterarticles I have found about the history of the movement and how it so closelyemulates previous, successful movements in American history can be found here. And like all my posts, I definitely want tohear your opinion about the movement, so please feel free to share yourthoughts and ideas so we can better understand a movement that seems here tostay.
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