although
i'd say it was primarily about the hypocracy of Government
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strictlyrockers hasnt been on here for ages, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 8:23,
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it's about a lot of things. Virtually everyone in attendance has their own specific reasons.
What they have in common is that they are disillusioned with mainstream politics and see the financial class as being responsible for the current economic crisis.
Primarily though OWS functions as a form of reclaimed public space, where people are engaging in communicative politics (in the true, communal and participatory sense of the word) outside of the control and mediation of the mainstream (corporate) media or their corrupted political parties. In a sense it is more a moral conversation than anything else - the people there seem to be establishing a general ideological framework rather than calling for any one policy.
The danger to this movement comes from both the traditional Left and the Right. Communists and Libertarians, Republicans and Democrats, all will want to hitch these people to their outdated and irrelevant belief-wagons. It's the same here in the UK with the OLSX camp - Labour (corporate fauxcialist stooges that they are) will desperately want to absorb the movement and unwittingly neutralise it on behalf of the political (ruling) class.
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