"On October 15th the world will rise up as one and say, "We have had enough! We are a new beginning, a global fight on on all fronts that will usher in an era of shared prosperity, respect, mutual aid, and dignity." This is quoted from a website on Occupy Wall Street. It was shocking to see a map of the United States with a yellow dot everywhere that a protest was going on. There were more than a hundred dots and there are more in other countries, in sympathy or daring to protest the same issues there.
Watching the police in NYC brutalize a young man, sending him to the hospital, was gut wrenching. Is this what our country has become? The violation to people who have a right to free speech is no longer tolerated? Do the police really want to see violence instead of peaceful protest?.
With over a hundred protests sites in the US now, many other countries are adding their own over the same issues. The world wealth has gotten totally skewed. In the US 1% of the people own 40% of the wealth. The other 99% is protesting to make themselves heard that the country is not being run properly. While the Republicans would like to blame Obama, people are smarter than that and can see the do-nothing, obstructionist Legislators in their zeal to make Obama a one-term president have abdicated their allegiance to the people.
In writing for the BBC, Mark Mardell describes the protests from the point of view of a Brit.
Click here to read his full article. He says what we should all know, in far more succinct language than we get to hear from our American 'so-called' media, which is less fact than opinion, for the most part.
Watching the police in NYC brutalize a young man, sending him to the hospital, was gut wrenching. Is this what our country has become? The violation to people who have a right to free speech is no longer tolerated? Do the police really want to see violence instead of peaceful protest?.
In writing for the BBC, Mark Mardell describes the protests from the point of view of a Brit.
Click here to read his full article. He says what we should all know, in far more succinct language than we get to hear from our American 'so-called' media, which is less fact than opinion, for the most part.
2 comments:
I agree that much of the U.S. coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement is awful and clearly politicized. But the same was true of the news coverage of the Tea Party. Take for example, this video on Occupy LA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sV-Io_gfL4
A lot of the Facebook comments on this video zeroed in on one protestor's anti-Semitic rant. Defenders of OWS pointed out that many protestors do not share this woman's racist viewpoint, and that it would be unfair to judge the whole movement by this one protestor. I wholeheartedly agree, but wasn't it equally unfair for reporters to go to a Tea Party protest, find one racist in the crowd, and proclaim that this one racist represented what the whole Tea Party was about?
What has one to do with the other? That the Tea Party was treated unfairly by the media does not lessen the fact that the media is out
for viewers any way they can get them. Everyone wants to survive and they have succumbed to the notion that they cannot survive without kowtowing to ratings.
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