What exactly is Occupy Wall Street?

What really is occupy wall street? and why are the protestors there? also does it have enough fire to keep going and is this really the start of something big?

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Read up on it

Watch the live streams...

A good start would be check out the "Declaration of the Occupation of Wall Street" in my sig... Thats the list of grievances

Not sure. I think it depends on where you go. Yesterday in Denver
they were all holding up signs that said FREE SYRIA.
Makes me a little suspicious.

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The start of something big? Oh you betcha!

Individually, each person has their list of valid grievances.

Collectively, they're clueless.

A bunch of useful idiots being marched around by communist leaders.

If you like communism, you'll want to attend.

While I agree in some part with their underlying intent, they really need to work on delivery. Just watching the news and there appears to be a zombie theme (how original) with some pinhead leaning back and forth in the background, face paint and all. Rather pathetic and stupid way to garner support, but I guess everything zombie aligns well with hipsters.

brill

Originally posted by mike_trivisonno
A bunch of useful idiots being marched around by communist leaders.

If you like communism, you'll want to attend.

Or people doing what the ##TeaPartiers## (tm) only whine about. When I was their age we took to the streets to protest the war and civil rights -- eventually it worked. I went to jail for one of those protests -- protesting the shooting of American college students at Kent state -- I consider that arrest a badge or honor.

Originally posted by brill
While I agree in some part with their underlying intent, they really need to work on delivery. Just watching the news and there appears to be a zombie theme (how original) with some pinhead leaning back and forth in the background, face paint and all. Rather pathetic and stupid way to garner support, but I guess everything zombie aligns well with hipsters.

brill

There is no right or wrong way -- these things happen not as the normal course of things but as a reaction to to stressors on a community --- the point is regular unorganized people are putting themselves in jeopardy - of arrest of rebuke of their familys or employers --

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they were all holding up signs that said FREE SYRIA. Makes me a little suspicious.

I Coouldnt agree with you the protests are starting to look very suspicious, even alex jones is starting to move away from them.

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A bunch of useful idiots being marched around by communist leaders.

I Dobut they are communist if they were communists they will be waving communist flags.