Tag: OWS

Every media clip or photograph of the OWS protestors is bound to show this striking mask, designed for the movie V for Vendetta.It is enough to send cold shivers down the spine of any greedy Wall Street banker, and soon the Occupy Movement worldwide wi…

See, we’re not alone.   Sure we don’t trust Steve Harper but people in many other countries are coming to distrust their leaders too.  It’s this loss of faith and overwhelming discontent that’s fueling everything from food price protests…

Mike Moffatt doesn’t come right out and call the Occupy Canada protesters hypocritical but that’s certainly the conclusion he’s nudging us towards in this Montreal Gazette op-ed. He begins by acknowledging the growing problem of income inequality and the part it plays in motivating the protests. But by the end of paragraph two, an international movement that began in the context of a worldwide global recession caused by greedy investment bankers — with an assist from corrupt politicians — has been forgotten. The discussion has been reduced to the mere fact of income inequality in Canada. Over the course of the rest of the column it will be further reduced to ways of increasing government revenue. The original Occupy Wall Street movement has been written out of the story….

With each passing day the Occupy Wall Street movement, in New York and elsewhere, grows more resilient.  It shows itself to be more than a mere protest, the standard venting over one egregious malady or another, but rather a rejection of an entire…