Occupy Wall St

Im not a US citizen. I don`t live in New York. But this movement which has brought together people from different social groups who have one thing in common. They all want the banks and the financial giants of wall street to play fair.

In a move taken straight from Tahir sqaure, people have decided to occupy wall street until their demands are seriously considered.

This is a job that easier said than done.

Right now, they are on the 7th day of their protest -  and there`s been next to nothing in terms of coverage on TV. What coverage there has been have mostly mocked the protesters and their ideals.

Whole communities are suffering because of the bail outs that the banks got, and there seems to be indifference by politicians to the long term scale of the problem.

These people on the streets who do care about issues that Wall St isn`t concerned about are the one`s who firmly believed in Obama`s call for change. What they got in return was nothing.
The horrible truth is this.

People like us don`t really count.

The US print and TV media have given scant coverage to a peaceful movement of their own people - yet Tea party rallies get top billing.

You vote for someone to tear everything down that got america and the rest of the world in debt. But in actuality, all you got was no change.

Four women got maced in the face whilst breaking no laws, and that`s met with public indifference

You think you live in a democracy, but it`s not quite like that. Yahoo, blocked all emails to the occopy wall street organisation and any emails mentioning the actual protest - which they called "an accident"
This is not the first time that the things we use to communicate have been taken down because of a protest.

All the time a message is being rammed home. "..  we are tolerating you for now, but there`s nothing you can do, christ we own the brand names your protesting in, we own the supermarket that you bought your water from and we have enough money to keep you where you are"

The last the thing in our arsenal is our votes. But is there anyone to vote fort? Just as in England the main difference between the parties is the logo. Everyone has friends in the city, everybody went to school with people who are now in the city, and their funding mostly comes from the city, so who`s tune are you going to dance to?

These protesters are not terrorists. These are your kids.

I used to think of America of the embodiment of freedom when I was a lot younger - you can do and say what you want and can achieve anything. I`m a lot older now and wise enough to that it`s never been the case really.

The whole world can see now that`s the name of the game is not your common rights as a citizen but how much influence you have and that depends on the money in your pocket. That`s why your kids future was used to pay the bills of the bankers, so their kids don`t have to.  All that rubbish that the politicians spoke last summer  about how great it was that the common folk were standing up for freedom in the middle east -  using our tools of social networking. But I`m seeing the same kind of reaction. Indifference followed by show of strength. No listening to voters here.

All I want is a fair system. But there`s lot`s of people who are rich, connected and have no conscience have no interest in that.  The banks have had us scammed for YEARS. Thing is, there`s a lot of us who don`t know what`s going on , or don`t care because right now, their needs are being met.


If there`s going to be a similar occupy- type - protest for the bank of England then I`ll lend me support anyway I can, and if I can get there, I will.