Occupy Wall Street – Where Are the Occupiers?

Where Are the Occupiers?

Only a few years ago steadfast members of Occupy Wall Street burst with the warmth of goodwill around the world. What happened to them? Where are they now?

Thom Hartman said that the Occupy Movement is deeply and profoundly spiritual.

Whether in New York, Sydney or London, Occupiers were focused on their mission. Many of them made huge sacrifices to gather together and make a protest where it counted. Their goal was to eradicate economic and political inequities. They saw that large corporations controlled the environment at a terrible cost to many people. They felt that even democracy was threatened by social and environmental injustices.

The time was right for action and the protest that started in Zucotti Park in New York in mid-September 2011 spread to 951 cities in 82 countries.(2)

Even in the US people in 600 communities protested mismanagement, dangerous practices, and injustices perpetrated by large corporations and banks in their search for profit.

The Antarctic continent was the only continent in the world that Occupiers did not touch. (3)

In less than a month millions of people around the world joined the massed force of public opinion and let the world and their local leaders know how they saw their local and national problems. They saw the problems and urged change and above all they demanded fairness for the people.

Now, several years later we wonder where all the occupiers are. Interoccupy News is a free online publication the Occupiers still put out. The latest edition highlights August as National Water Quality Month.

Here on the West Coast of North America it is very dry. In California it is the driest year on record—ever. Plants and even well-established trees are visibly suffering from lack of water and people are asked to use water with care.

We try to take heed, since all living things require water. No wonder Occupiers have focused on water!

They plan a conference which will focus on capitalism as the root cause of so many of the problems the world faces today.

Much has been said for and against capitalism. However, if we heed the Tibetan’s comments about capitalism in Problems of Humanity, we find that he makes a few extremely cogent and convincing umbrella statements that explain capitalism from the perspective of those who see the long view and more of the entire picture than many people do.

He says that the cause of the world’s unrest—the cause of wars which have caused so much misery–can be ascribed “to a selfish group (of capitalists) with very materialistic purposes” who have exploited people all over the world for centuries. They have the world’s wealth. (3)

If this is true, and if Occupiers promote justice and wide distribution of wealth around the world, then it behooves us to take an interest in their activities and see the good they intentionally promote.

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1 Wikipedia
2 Wikipedia
3 Problems of Humanity, Alice A Bailey, Lucis Publishing Company, New York.

© 2014 Rebecca Field