Tuesday, January 24, 2012

What Future For Occupy Wall Street?

The New York Review Of Books:

Less than a week after the tenth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center towers, Occupy Wall Street protesters set up camp in Zuccotti Park across the street from the site that had become known by the military phrase ?Ground Zero.? Construction was in full swing: the replacement towers were already visible on the skyline and the 9/11 Memorial had just opened to the public. Among the potent effects of the protest was the almost immediate sense that it marked the end of a depleting decade whose misfortunes seemed to have begun on that very street?a decade that included two failed wars, ruinous displays of corporate malfeasance, the worst economic recession in seventy-eight years, and unsustainable budget deficits partly as a result of tax cuts for the wealthiest citizens that seemed to embarrass even some who benefited most from them.

Read the whole story: The New York Review Of Books

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/23/what-future-for-occupy-wa_n_1224894.html

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