hacker group pledged to "Occupy
Wall Street" on September 17th. This anonymous group produced a video
advocating for peaceful demonstrations while expressing their one goal
which is freedom. On September 9th, people started submitting photos to the
"We Are The 99 Percent" webpage. This slogan represents the 99 percent of
the population that feels like they are being cheated of the American
dream. On September 17th the protest began in Bowling Green Park. This
protest attracted thousands of people. September 24th brought a day full of
arrests. On this day eighty arrests were made and an officer named Anthony
Bologna was filmed using mace on a female protestor. On September 29, 2011
the first document was approved unanimously by those involved with Occupy
Wall Street. This document is called "The Declaration of the Occupation of
New York City". Three documents were released that explained the protestors
declaration of demands, principles of solidarity, and how to form your own
Direct Democracy Occupation Group. Also released were demands for Congress
(Gee, 2). October 1st consisted of over seven hundred protestors being
arrested as they stopped traffic while walking across the Brooklyn Bridge.
On the same day Occupy LA and Occupy DC began. Along with these major
events, two journalists also published the first edition of a newspaper
called, "The Occupied Wall Street Journal". On October 3rd the New York
Times published the names of many more cities who planned to join the OWS
movement with protests of their own (Gee, 2). This is an on going event but
as of right now those are the events that led have led up to today.
"You need a scoreboard to keep track of all the things that corporations
have done that are bad for this country" said Bill Steyert, 68, from Forest
Hills Queens (Moynihan, 1). Protestors are standing up against the one
percent of the population that controls ninety-nine p...