Occupy Wall Street Current Official Demands, Voting Closed Oct. 21, 2011Ralph Lopez
Occupy Wall Street began on September 17, 2011, as an organized protest in Zuccotti Park, in New York City's financial district. The movement quickly spread to other cities across the U.S., including Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Occupy Wall Street defined itself as a ...
One proposed list of demands for theOccupy Wall Street movementincludes "free college tuition" and "immediate across the board forgiveness" of student debt. While neither demand may be very realistic, the student debt problem is very real. According to FinAid.org, which carries a "student debt...
I’m about to link it all together for you in one neat and tidy little package. The “Occupy Wall Street” protests. Continue reading→ The “Occupy Wall Street” adult children have listed 13 proposed demands from their website. I especially love Demand 9. Yeah, that should work out jus...
Our communities have long had demands. We demand that any movement be clear about its goals, intent, and strategies to ensure that our communities, which are already suffering police violence in the forms of criminalization, incarceration, and surveillance, can make informed decisions about our par...
One of the young women who appeared on CNBC.com's Speaker’s Corner livestream today explained why she thinks Occupy Wall Street should never even begin this process of wrapping up. “I don’t think we should issue a list of demands at all. That’s not what this is about,” said Kat...
This Tuesday prisoners at theRed Onion State Prison in Virginiarefused their first meal. They are striking in response to inhumane conditions and treatment inside the prison. “Phil Wilayto, of the Richmond Defenders, said “The most important thing about the prisoners’ demands is that Red Onion...
Occupy Wall Street has taken on epic proportions, appearing daily on the news. But what is Occupy Wall Street? Should you care? See what the movement is about.
Do tell. Such critiques say far more about the media's discomfort with popular dissent than about the dissent itself, let alone the public fury animating it. In fact, there is nothing particularly mysterious about what the protesters are asking for even if their demands aren't spelled out in...
That won't happen to you. Among your many strengths, the lack of a list of demands that so many ofyour eldershavecomplained about, your inclusiveness, and your utopian streak -- the urge to create a tiny, thoroughly democratic new society near the beating financial heart of the old one ...