Why the Occupy Movement could be the most important thing you ever do.

[PeaceNikki]

This Saturday, Oct 15th the world is being asked to occupy as many financial institutions as possible. In every city, in every country. But why? And how will this change anything anyway?

Let me start with a brief explanation on what’s led up to this momentous occasion. Most of you will know all of this but it sets the scene. Starting in reverse order; so-called “austerity measures” are being forced upon us all, wherever we are in the world. The poorest of the population are now having their jobs cut en masse to be able to afford to pay back the astronomical debts that the richest people in our individual nations have accrued at our expense. The poor already find it difficult to get by which makes these austerity measures seem a little harsh to say the least but it obviously doesn’t stop there. Why are we in debt? Because unregulated, large, financial institutions and banks gambled with our money and lost. So it seems we’re punishing the people that innocently (and maybe sometimes ignorantly) supplied the money and not the people that lost it in the first place. Doesn’t make much sense does it? To top it all, we gave even more of our money to bail out these banks and institutions as otherwise our economy would be in an even worse state than it already is. So to summarise, we’ve done as much as we can to help the people who got us into trouble and only taken more away from the innocent. Any judge, in any court, in any land would find this kind of sentencing absolutely ridiculous.

But this isn’t the first time something unjust or unfair has happened to you or your country is it? You’ve had your money used to fight wars you completely disagree with. You’ve had your health care system ripped apart when that’s the last thing you would have wanted. You’ve seen the closing of libraries, schools and public education services when all you’ve needed is to learn and the list goes on, through the decades of regular people being undermined and disadvantaged in the name of what is good for the few.

The cause of rallying everyone, regardless of their slightly different ideologies, under one banner, is to stop the corporate coup that has rendered the world’s citizens utterly powerless. It’s yet another reason why this current system of running everything fails us. If we don’t stop this injustice and nonsensical system now, then we’re all fucked soon anyway, due to the environmental damage that goes hand in hand with it. Big business also cannot afford for us to go green, that’s why we haven’t done anywhere near as best we could when it comes to the growing environmental crisis. Global warming has been a threat to us for decades and it’s only just become something that people can buy into but it’s still not enough. It’s not economically viable for big business or governments to switch money from oil to a more sustainable fuel because those that control our economy would lose out with such a huge change. In this way, if we let what’s happening continue we won’t just have the poor being poorer, we will also have a world that is ravaged by floods, famine and mass population displacement, naturally (as always) hitting the poorest hardest yet again.

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[Lindsay]

1. Wonderfully well stated.

Thank you for posting it.

K&R

[ZombieHorde]

2. I absolutely love your signature line. nt

[PeaceNikki]

3. Thanks! Me, too!

:)