Martin Luther King, Jr. (with compatriots) take over a private building in Chicago in 1965.

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49. Politicians did nothing about foreclosures. Millions of people are and have lost their homes

many of them illegally and rather than place a moratorium on them once it became clear there were illegalities involved, Congress merely looked the other way. People can't wait for years until Congress gets around to doing something to stop these crimes. So OWS has done what they could rather than wait, and have succeeded in shaming the banks into leaving people in their homes and accepting what the homeowners wanted in the first place. The more they do this, the more some politicians will feel the need to act. And some, especially in NYC, are now.

This movement is in its infancy. It may be the first Global Movement of its kind and as has been said, 'this is only the beginning of the beginning'. It is amazing that people expect a movement, in many places not yet four months old, to do what Congress has failed to do for over a decade.

However, it is unprecedented what they have accomplished in that short amount of time. Did Congress eg, manage to stop the Banks from imposing extra charges on people using loopholes in the new regulations to do so? It took OWS joining the 'move your money' organization to get that done and pretty quickly. People have immediate needs which OWS is addressing, all over the country, such as feeding the poor and the homeless. Once these cities stopped them from doing so, THEY did nothing to help them, just threw them out once again in the freezing cold to die.

It's the government is not functioning FOR the people so the people are stepping in and doing what they can to help people stay alive wherever they can and to get attention, which they have, for the failures of this government. We should NOT have homeless people in this country, especially veterans. OWS is showing how to deal with that problem, and it could be dealt with if the government had a will to do so. In a few places now, cities ARE working with OWS to do so.

But the bigger issues, such as the money in Politics, are the main issues of this movement as that is the root case of all other problems, why we do not representation. And it is their focus on that that is causing the hatred for the movement by those in power. But it won't stop them, because the problem is far too big and way out of control at this point. It really is now up to the people, as we all know. The electoral system has not solved it, it has become part of the problem.