We think this photo is painfully relevant to today’s young students and college graduates. Some people are protesting this kind of dispare: the movement to Occupy Wall Street.
Until recently, the protests of Occupy Wall Street has received sporadic news coverage since the they started on September 14th. Protesters blame a corporate media black out, though they have gotten some attention from internet news sources and social media.
Despite it’s member’s dedication, the Occupy-Wall-Streeters don’t seem to have a focused agenda.
(Whoops. Thats usually something you come up with in the pre-protest meeting.)
“Now that we’ve broken through its up to the people to decide where to take it and what demands to make,” said Vlad Teichberg a film maker who’s been documenting the protest.
It seems the people occupying Wall Street are true life rebels without a cause. They started off with broad list of complaints but have now honed them down to a slightly less broad list of complaints.
In their defense, the protests are slowly developing a cogent argument. They contend the protesters, most Americans, and probably everyone reading this post are all part of the 99% (the remaining 1% being the rich elite). Their website We Are The 99 depicts people from all over the country voicing their frustrations.
As they put it:
“We are the 99 percent. We are getting kicked out of our homes. We are forced to choose between groceries and rent. We are denied quality medical care. We are suffering from environmental pollution. We are working long hours for little pay and no rights, if we’re working at all. We are getting nothing while the other 1 percent is getting everything. We are the 99 percent.”
While this is a lofty, and some would say noble, cause Occupy Wall Street and We Are The 99 still don’t have a pragmatic solution.
Does this hurt their credibility, or could some real action come of this?