Occupy Wall Street, the protest that many of us didn’t quite get at first is entering its 4th week and picking up steam, sympathizers, celebrities, and more definitive foci. The main point for the thousands of participants, some of whom have been camped out in rain and shine in Manhattan Financial District’s Zuccotti Park, seems to be….the 99% of struggling working citizens vs. the 1% “ruling class” which controls an inordinate amount of the world’s wealth (see inequality diagrams here). There is tremendous backlash against bank bailouts, corporate crime, executive golden parachutes, military overspending, media punditry, and unemployment woes (i.e a record 4.5 million people have been out of work for a year)…Now similar protests have popped up in many other cities, some labor unions are joining the Occupy Wall Street movement, and President Obama has acknowledged the simmering discontent.
