My sister Laura and I took the train to Manhattan on Wednesday to participate in the occupation of Wall Street. But Wall Street is barricaded. Yes, pedestrians move on the sidewalks, but police and metal prevent anyone from walking or entering the street.
The protesters are several blocks away at Zuccotti Park.
Again, let me say it: Wall Street is barricaded, a gated community with security.
Wall Street is walled in, closed to all but the financial giants whose personhood has assaulted the middle class and working poor through breaking and entering, seizing homes, the present and the future, while influencing politicians to bankroll the uber-wealthy by systematically extorting taxpayer dollars.
~ from Wall Street as Gated Community by Missy Beattie ~
The protesters are several blocks away at Zuccotti Park.
Again, let me say it: Wall Street is barricaded, a gated community with security.
Wall Street is walled in, closed to all but the financial giants whose personhood has assaulted the middle class and working poor through breaking and entering, seizing homes, the present and the future, while influencing politicians to bankroll the uber-wealthy by systematically extorting taxpayer dollars.
~ from Wall Street as Gated Community by Missy Beattie ~
Though there's always the doom-and-gloomers, they're saying this recession is gonna get worse before it gets better. Perhaps it's just the kickstart citizenship needs, get people to care again, to get together and have a voice. One just hopes they do so before the upslope of elite power crosses the downslope of the people. It's a fine line, and there is a tipping point after which we might get stuck in some sort of modern feudalism. Hopefully the awakening comes in time.
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