Occupy Wall Street
On September 17, 2011 over one thousand protesters meet together in Zuccotti Park in Manhattan and march to Wall Street. I see the movement as a protest against the social inequality in America. It is mainly cause because of the great Recession and had a lot of impacts on Americans. Such problems like unemployment, foreclosure and bankruptcy has had people outraged with the amount of money they are losing. They have come out saying that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. People are just fed up with it and they want to the government to do something about it. That is why they are trying to do a protest right on Wall Street where all the money is being processed. They felt that the bigger corporations were making all of the profit that they can and always constantly gaining capital while the 99 percent was losing all of their hard earned money and not gaining much at all. That is the place where all the big financial giants are and taking up most of the national income. They refer to these rich people as the 1 percent and consider themselves the 99 percent. How come the rich 1 percent of the country own 40 percent of the countries wealth and have almost the quarter of the countries income. Therefore leaving only three fourths for the 99 percent. The income gap between the rich and the poor is constantly increasing and this gap is at the direct expense of the middle class. This is the whole reason for the movement and most of the population sees it as an income inequality now.
The protest like I stated earlier started by the Bull statue in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan. This is basically the first step for a social movement such as this one. They gathered there, as a group of people and their goal was to occupy Wall Street and set up camps and tents and stay there as long as they could. It didn’t just end in Wall Street but it expanded to other cities all across the globe. In San Francisco, protestors started to...