Here We Go Again Punks!
Occupy Wall Street once again took to the streets of downtown Manhattan to celebrate the
first year anniversary of addressing the financial and social problems wrought in recent
times by certain banks and institutions riding the wild west all the way to their holes in
the wall.
The people who gathered in huge numbers are the public faces of what many write off as a
movement without leadership, strategy or structure. And with all the rabble rousing,
what has it achieved?
We're still talking about it and somewhere, in the deep dark depths of OWS there are faces,
names, strategies, budgets, you name it.
The problems didn't happen overnight, solutions to such will not happen overnight.
The right to vote (men, women, blacks and whites), civil rights, women's rights, equal pay,
gay rights, religious freedom . . .
The right and duty to care. How hard does it have to be?
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Nicely captured. Unfortunately it has become one of those things that has drawn attention to a problem but had little if any effect. Yay! a one year anniversary – but for what? – it merely commemorates a socio-cultural phenomenon – a happening.
Thank you mobius faith. Yes, it has drawn attention to so many problems by engaging so many, at least here in NY, in the process of attempting to become part of the solution. All of which takes time . . .
To mobius faith; Everything starts somewhere. The grip the banks, big corps and misguided capitalists has on America was a long time coming. It won’t be changed by the reelection of Obama and this “happening”. It will take “happenings” like this to make the Average Joe aware of the fact that Big Brother hasn’t been looking out for him. It takes time. A measured revolution will have more effect than a quick one. BTW Pat, ordered the CD you recommended.
I wonder if we will ever have fair banking practices if only because there will always be people within the system at work on the next set of algorithms for that fine line between creaming profits and devastating losses.
Am sure you will enjoy the CD Tom!
(Pious Bird Of Good Omen, Fleetwood Mac with bonus tracks of Pete Green putting his irascible talent to work!)
Hello Patti once again more interesting Shots you have here at the wall street ,Thanks for sharing 🙂
My pleasure, thank you Jake 🙂
Lovely shots Patti. And good question.
Headless movements die a natural death. A commitment to the cause from the leaders and the public is harder to garner these days. Not sure why.
Thank you Madhu. The argument is that as so many different people contributed to the problem it is going to take the collective, and consistent, efforts of so many more to achieve any solution. There are “heads” in there somewhere and they will emerge eventually, I think . . . !
Another great set of images Patti – I see the police had already decided they were going to arrest lots of people with their cable ties in their hands. No – “please move along sir” – like we usually get over here before they kettle us 😉
Latest figures have it that approx 180 people were arrested, more than a few were press
Well, I guess that’s one way of ensuring that there are no ‘Police State’ allegations – I thought the US was a free country… 😦
or as some have suggested, home of the free, land of the regulated!
You are able to put more work together in one post than I seem to in 6 months, Ms. K!
I need you to coach me on my time-management skills (or… you know.. my complete lack thereof)!
🙂
SiG, I almost fell out of my chair reading your fabulous comment! I never thought my name and the suggestion of positive time- management skills would ever appear in any sentence together. Thank you so much for making my day!
Politics aside, some great shots! 🙂
Thank you CK, it has been fascinating to observe the process in action!
I can imagine! 🙂
killer Lismore chick ..
Pete, I need to talk to you about this . . . .
I love the Thomas Jefferson quote. I also love the fact that you take these photos and share them here in your blog.
What would Thomas Jefferson make of the situation, so many years down the track? Glad you enjoy the photos Cardinal, thank you!
very cool hair style in the first picture 🙂
And we get to see it in its glory!
These are our new heroes of today. People who speak for those who can’t or for those who don’t have the courage to do so. I agree with the man of holding the sign regarding creditors. The government letting them drown million of people in debts is unforgivable. What happened to the millions who lost their homes and those who lost their way of life because of enormous interest rates inflicted by this evil companies are a result partly of a lax government who let it happen. We can’t be blind anymore. Hmm…I should have been in this pictures, huh?
IT, consider yourself in the pictures! As for the buying and selling of those debt packages, and the profits that were made on them . . .
Patti! I love your pictures here in this post. So vibrant and touching and full of the pulse of humanity. I love it.
Thank you so much Lanier! Your comment goes straight to the core of what it is like down there. So many people have happened upon it, with pre-conceived notions, only to find the reality a little closer to home than expected . . .
“QUESTION WHAT YOU KNOW!”
That is the sign of the century!
I am still working my way through the backlog of so much that I know I don’t know, let alone the black hole of so much that I don’t know . . .
Those faces, so fascinating.
compelling work, Patti.