Critical Mass Profits


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Critical Mass Profits

Critical Mass Profits

The United States Constitution begins with the words, “We the People…” and guarantees citizens the right to “peaceably…assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances” (First Amendment). The growing “Occupy Wall Street” movement, begun in late September 2011, is the most recent example of mass dissent, yet key political leaders like House Majority Leader Eric Cantor refer to the angry crowds as a “mob,” reminiscent of Vice President Spiro Agnew’s characterization of anti-war protesters as “…effete…impudent snobs” in October 1969.

Causes of the Occupied Wall Street Movement

One protester, interviewed briefly on NBC News (October 7, 2011, national news), claimed that, “this is our Arab Spring.” Another protester lost a $100,000-a-year job over a year ago and has been unemployed ever since. The movement began in New York as a protest of corporate greed, but the ancillary causes of mass anger are many. The movement has sparked similar rallies across the nation and has been compared to the Tea Party movement in terms of its "grassroots" appeal.

The movement began publication of its own newspaper, the Occupied Wall Street Journal. One of the front-page articles is titled “Pushed Out of Our Homes And Into The Street,” recounting how Bank of America was evicting the writer’s mother and stepdad from a home that had been in his stepdad’s family for 100 years. The writer, David Kempa, asks, “Didn’t Bank of America get more than $100 billion in bailouts?”