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In reply to the discussion: Occupy Wall Street just reoccupied Zucotti Park! [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)If you don't support the goals of OWS, which are much larger than those of the people in WI working to recall Walker and his regressive agenda, it's your right.
I haven't seen complaints from people in WI upset about the interest generated in the OWS movement in NYC. It is the anti-Wall Street movement, and Wall Street is in NYC, not WI.
But Wall Street is major supporter of the system that is driving the things that Walker is doing in WI. It's called striking at the root and not the branches, as Thoreau said.
All people do things in their own way where they live or associate to make the changes they find necessary to live.
It is nowhere near time to take the heat off of Wall Street, until it ceases its abuses. And this is just the beginning, it will go in fits and starts, advance and retreat. It will take a very long time as Wall Street has controlled this country for centuries.
OWS is predicated on the belief that humans no longer have the luxury of a waiting until a future time to stop what Wall Street is doing to people and the planet.
If you can't find it in your heart to appreciate the sacrifices of these mostly young people in putting their bodies on the line for change as youth did back in the sixties, that's okay. We all have our way of looking at things.
Have a Happy New Year.