It’s a story we’ve been hearing all year with the rise of the Arab Spring: demonstrations in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Madison Wisconsin, Athens and London. These are the expression of unrest against stagnant regimes, government indifference and corporate corruption and the unrest has seeded itself like a dandelion does with the wind. Now, the same story — written by Uranus square Pluto and the Aries Point — has landed here in the epicenter of the world’s financial system. Tahrir Square, welcome to Wall Street New York.
#Occupy Wall Street began as a leaderless movement by Adbusters, an anti-consumerist magazine based in Toronto. Spurred on by hacktivist group Anonymous and using Facebook and Twitter, #Occupy Wall Street demonstrations started in New York’s Bowling Green Park on Saturday Sept. 17th — Constitution Day in the United States. It is intended for these demonstrations to continue for a few months.
Here is the statement of the protests’ purpose taken from #Occupy Wall Street’s website:
A Modest Call to Action on this September 17th
This statement is ours, and for anyone who will get behind it. Representing ourselves, we bring this call for revolution.
We want freedom for all, without regards for identity, because we are all people, and because no other reason should be needed. However, this freedom has been largely taken from the people, and slowly made to trickle down, whenever we get angry.
Money, it has been said, has taken over politics. In truth, we say, money has always been part of the capitalist political system. A system based on the existence of have and have nots, where inequality is inherent to the system, will inevitably lead to a situation where the haves find a way to rule, whether by the sword or by the dollar.