Protest

For the third week in a row thousands of people, mostly young, occupy Wall Street on a daily basis in what is being called "Operation Invade Wall Street". They are, in a sense, there to share their dissatisfaction with the world the way it now is. The world with its economic violence, inequality, and exploitation.

Many carry signs which read "we're the 99%ers", meaning, presumably, that they are among the ninety nine per cent of the world's people who are negatively imapcted by the current political and economic system. That number may be fairly accurate. The few profiting, the many suffering.

In one of the mammoth buildings overlooking the protesters is draped another sign. It says:

                                                      "we are the 1%"

Presumably this is an expression of agreement with the protesters concerning the percentages.

Apparently the one per cent power elite have no wish to conceal their existence or identity.

They seem, in fact, to be advertising it.

They'd better be careful. Ninety nine per cent is a huge majority, and it would seem that an increasing portion of that huge majority is sufficiently motivated to appear daily in the streets. How many more of us are there, around the country, around the world, who would love nothing more than to join the protesters, but cannot manage to take time away from their personal survival struggle within the corporate system?

The corporate owners might wish to reconsider their brazen approach. They govern only because of ingrained tradition, social inertia, resistance to change. That resistance may well be crumbling. The numbers seem to indicate as much. 

Workers of the world UNITE!