One of my friend's went to Occupy Wall Street on Monday and it's so ironic because as I was reading this article he walked into my house. So I began to ask him questions regarding his trip. I asked him,"Do people get arrested for participating?" and he told me yes they do. Which led me to ask why if they didn't technically break any laws? He told me it depended on circumstances, it shouldn't happen because it is a form of civil disobedience but this society sucks which is why we need Occupy lol . I agree with my friend to a certain extent but I'm glad there has come a time where there are more people willing to stand up to this economy and fights for rights we equally deserve.
In the Article Professor Silliman posted I seen a few things that Rebecca Solnit said that really intrigued me:
1.And the family resemblances matter. If you add them all up, you see a similar fury at greed, political corruption, economic inequality, environmental devastation, and a dimming, shrinking future.
-She talks about the people being united and coming together to make a voice for themselves and to be heard so that things like those above won't occur.
2.Don't be reasonable, don't be realistic, and don't be defeated. A year is nothing and the mainstream media is oblivious to where power lies and how change works, but that doesn't mean you need to be.
- Occupy has a long way to go and it has made so much progress in only a year but the media try to mask and manipulate reality so that the mass can continue to be obliterated and inane.
3.And here was Occupy's other signal achievement: we articulated, clearly, loudly, incontrovertably, how appalling and destructive the current economic system is.
- I'm just excited that a change for the better is finally on the rise.
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