Some argue that Occupy Wall Street's demands aren't specific enough. (Photo Credit: CC BY/Timothy Krause/Flickr)
Occupy Wall Street has moved uptown, reports the Huffington Post. Rather than go after rich bankers where they work, the strategy has shifted to peppering them with scorn where they live. Conservative critics and liberal intellectuals argue that it makes little difference, calling the movement media-manufactured and unclear in its aims.
Marching on the homes of CEOs
The progressive protest movement that was given the nickname “Occupy Wall Street” by the media has marched on the homes of JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, billionaire philanthropist David Koch, hedge fund manager John Paulson, real estate developer Howard Milstein and media mogul Rupert Murdoch. These and other targets represent the 1 percent who have legally and mercilessly exploited the “We are the 99 percent” class. To the Occupy Wall Street crowd, “Banks got bailed out, we got sold out” is a rallying cry of truth.
No permits, few incidents
From Central and Zuccotti Parks in downtown New York to 5th Avenue and beyond, Occupy Wall Street protesters have marched for the common man, despite that fact that they do not have permits to do so, said UnitedNY spokesman Doug Forand.
However, since Occupy Wall Street has, for the most part, not obstructed traffic and remained on public sidewalks, the law has only become involved in a small number of incidents. The pepper spray encounter involving Kaylee Dedrick was one of those, and the Wall Street Journal reports that the police officer involved is currently being sued.
Radical tempest in need of focus
Critics of Occupy Wall Street have objected not to the movement’s stance against corporate greed, but to the role that labor unions and free-spending liberal activists are allegedly playing in the movement. The so-called radical movement is in danger of being co-opted and losing sight of its 99 percent roots, a CBN News op-ed suggests.
Financial writer and entrepreneur Bill Frezza sees Occupy Wall Street as more of a media creation, unified more by the need to fill the 24-hour news cycle than by any real commitment to break apart the current financial system.
Occupy Wall Street goes uptown
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