Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street
Professor Craig
Business Ethics
May 5, 2013
“Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants” (“OccupyWallStreet”).The Occupy Wall Street protests were started by one simple email. A magazine called Adbusters sent an email to its 90,000 member list with the hashtag #OccupyWallStreet and a date of September 17. News of the protest could be found on websites and a twitter member named US Day of Rage started endorsing it and promoting it. Their “belief” as you may call it, was to take the United States back to a “nonhierarchical, egalitarian, consensus-driven process-the purest kind of democracy” (Schneider, 2011). The most significant part of this movement was that it was a contradiction of everything Wall Street represents to America-a hold of US politics and society by the interest of the wealthy, a government for the corporations. Initially there was the thought that a single demand would be good enough for the movement and that the occupation would be able to put enough pressure on the government and the people that this one important single demand would be changed. However, the movement could never agree on that one single demand, there were just too many changes that needed to be made. After weeks of meetings, September 17th arrived. The Occupy was hoping for a crowd of 20,000 but the numbers were closer to 2,000. A plan was made to meet at Zuccotti Park and everyone trickled that way (Schneider, 2011). And so it began….
“The Occupy Wall Street movements and climate action movements stand on the same moral ground and affirm the same
Professor Craig
Business Ethics
May 5, 2013
“Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants” (“OccupyWallStreet”).The Occupy Wall Street protests were started by one simple email. A magazine called Adbusters sent an email to its 90,000 member list with the hashtag #OccupyWallStreet and a date of September 17. News of the protest could be found on websites and a twitter member named US Day of Rage started endorsing it and promoting it. Their “belief” as you may call it, was to take the United States back to a “nonhierarchical, egalitarian, consensus-driven process-the purest kind of democracy” (Schneider, 2011). The most significant part of this movement was that it was a contradiction of everything Wall Street represents to America-a hold of US politics and society by the interest of the wealthy, a government for the corporations. Initially there was the thought that a single demand would be good enough for the movement and that the occupation would be able to put enough pressure on the government and the people that this one important single demand would be changed. However, the movement could never agree on that one single demand, there were just too many changes that needed to be made. After weeks of meetings, September 17th arrived. The Occupy was hoping for a crowd of 20,000 but the numbers were closer to 2,000. A plan was made to meet at Zuccotti Park and everyone trickled that way (Schneider, 2011). And so it began….
“The Occupy Wall Street movements and climate action movements stand on the same moral ground and affirm the same