Monday Wondering: Occupy Wall Street

WONDER: A feeling of surprise mingled with admiration, caused by something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable.

• Occupy Wall Street, period.

I first read about the idea in Adbusters, an in-your-face anti-consumer magazine I sometimes hide from the kids due to its disturbingly graphic content. The movement it spawned now includes middle-aged labor unions leaders, medical doctors, and possibly your grandma.

If you're not sure what's going on, here are some recent, short, informative pieces that get to the point pretty quickly: 

• Democracy Now – a revealing video clip of interviews with a range of protesters marching toward Wall Street. 
• Naomi Klein's short essay in The Nation - Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now. 
• The New York Times adds its editorial support. 
• Alan Grayson, former Florida representative, lays it out in under two minutes.
• Paul Krugman, Nobel-prize winning economist weighs in. 
• Adbusters official Occupy Wall Street campaign site.
• Mother Jones for an interactive map on occupations near you - plus more.

And here's some info on Occupy Gainesville (see Occupy Together for info on your city).

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Comments

[Judy Zitko]

This is great. I'm 70 years young and in the past 6 months I have finally fully woke up to the fact that the upper echelon in this country are royally screwing us. I've suspected things going on behind the scenes of government for 35 years but never could put my finger on any one thing. It's no wonder, it's not just one thing, they are into every facet of our lives and want to move us back to the 1890's by literally wiping a centuries worth of progress off the map. I'm not on the streets, yet, although I've done a rally recently, but I am taking moves to become a Democratic committeeman to influence politics from the ground floor up. This is how the Tea Party did it when they took over the Republican Party and it's how Progressives are going to have to fight back.