Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Summary of J.Fitzgerald's OWS
Any person who has watched the news in the past few months understands what the Occupy Wall Street movement stands for and is. Jason Fitzgerald's article "Ask Not What Occupy Wall Street Will Do Next; Ask How We Will Change The Status Quo" he answers exactly what the title implies, OWS may not be making much bigger of an uproar as it did when it hit its peak but it will continue to be the whisper we hear when we remember how we are split into a 99% and an elite 1%. Fitzgerald suggests that, although the Occupy Wall Street movement has died down for now, it will not stop until it changes how we all consider each other- as the One-Hundred percent -instead of ninety nine and one. He describes Wall Street as a place that "pretends" to be fair or somewhere where all people can become a part-owner of a private company but this is obviously false. Wall Street is some-what corrupt in the sense that only the wealthy can buy enough shares of stock to actually hold any sort of power which is why the OWS movement was created, to combat the unfair distribution of power in the United States. OWS has set a firm foundation for the rest of the world to create their own Occupy movements. In the article, he mentions how it has spread to our "Homes and Ports" and even to Iowa and has become a sort of image or political attitude rather than just what physically happened back in October and November. OWS has indeed become a movement that will always be on the back burner waiting to boil over once another scandal arises, we just have to wait and see what they do next, if anything at all but even if they never achieve they same kind of fire they did when they all assembled in Zuccotti Park, the movement will always be around until we reach a sense of "us" instead of the "it" and "them" terms Fitzgerald explains at the end of his article.
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