The Worm of Wall Street
Published in Al-Thawra
(Syria) on 20 October 2011
by Wafa’ Sabih (link to original)
(Syria) on 20 October 2011
by Wafa’ Sabih (link to original)
Translated from
by Joseph McBirnie.
Edited by Gillian Palmer.
We disagree with one interpretation of the news regarding the Occupy Wall Street movement. There are many who call it an attack on the democracy of the United States for hundreds of protesters to have been arrested, but this pays no attention to the deeper meaning and doesn’t look beyond the arrests.
A cry of rage originating specifically in America means that there is a lot of turmoil in the social boiler. The right to protest has remained distorted and unfair on all levels.
America operates as a leader of the free world outside of its borders, but has internal social and economic sores and deformities as well. This has prompted young people to the squares to demand a reduction of corporate greed and of the economic disparities that make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
The number of poor in the U.S. and the world exceed the number of rich, who eat them alive. So intellectuals rose and stood up with them to formulate this narrative. Director, Michael Moore, claimed that the rich in America are getting away with murder; while hundreds were arrested in the protests, not one person from Wall Street was imprisoned in the economic crisis of 2008.
The takeover of the city streets is just an initial step to correcting the laws and accountability of political and economic elites who have accumulated wealth that is denied to others.
Because the protests were launched on Wall Street, it is clear that a culture and language of a new world order is beginning to spread its vocabulary over every continent. The terms may vary, but they remain consistent in terms of pain. Furthermore, the “occupiers” have agreed to end the era of democracy’s conquests thanks to the disparity of wealth. The time has come for the silkworms to eat the fig leaf.
A cry of rage originating specifically in America means that there is a lot of turmoil in the social boiler. The right to protest has remained distorted and unfair on all levels.
America operates as a leader of the free world outside of its borders, but has internal social and economic sores and deformities as well. This has prompted young people to the squares to demand a reduction of corporate greed and of the economic disparities that make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
The number of poor in the U.S. and the world exceed the number of rich, who eat them alive. So intellectuals rose and stood up with them to formulate this narrative. Director, Michael Moore, claimed that the rich in America are getting away with murder; while hundreds were arrested in the protests, not one person from Wall Street was imprisoned in the economic crisis of 2008.
The takeover of the city streets is just an initial step to correcting the laws and accountability of political and economic elites who have accumulated wealth that is denied to others.
Because the protests were launched on Wall Street, it is clear that a culture and language of a new world order is beginning to spread its vocabulary over every continent. The terms may vary, but they remain consistent in terms of pain. Furthermore, the “occupiers” have agreed to end the era of democracy’s conquests thanks to the disparity of wealth. The time has come for the silkworms to eat the fig leaf.
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