by the El Reportero staff
Some 300 people protested against what they consider a banking abuse, and the loss of civil liberties in the nation. The event was part of a series of non-violent nationwide protests as the ones that the Egyptians carried out to oust the dictator, Hosni Mubarak.
The event, named the US Day of Rage, was carried out at the same time as another event was happening, called Occupy Wall Street, in New York, where the demonstrator intend to remain on the street for weeks or months.
The event, titled the “US Day of Rage,” it in conjunction with a similar event that is taking place in New York City, titled “Occupy Wall Street”.
The reason: Americans are outraged at large corporative financial institutions who employ “ruthless and desperate tactics” in conducting business.
They denounce that these entites are of the mindset that “puts profit over and above all else” and will do anything to “minimize costs and maximize profits. Some assert that “even the act of being alive has a price tag”.
For financial these entites, who are in line with the rich and powerbrokers, are a point in our historical evolution where –of one accord- they are able to set prices for staples, like food, clothing, fuel, that all humans need to get alone in its day- to- day survival. And, those disproportionately feeling the brunt of these “monopolized” business practices –poor uneducated Third World minorities.
Similar protests are taking place in Austin, Los Ángeles, S.F, Seattle and Washington D.C. Others are underway in Spain, Italy, England, Canada, Greece, Germany, Portugal, Austria, Netherlands, Israel and France.
The reason Wall Street was choosen is it is viewed as the primary trendsetter in the “corporative plunder” of our nation. Wall Street also has tremendous influence over political parties, like the Republicans and Democratics, because “political campaigns require financing”.
This Day of Outrage is well planned out, but protestors expect resistance from the powers-that-be as their right to peaceful assembly has at times been hampered by forces created to serve and protect civil society, i.e. , “the police”.
“Like the revolutionary tactics of the Arab Spring of massive occupation of the streets, his brothers and sisters in Egypt, Greece, Spain and Iceland, you get in America. And they want to endorse the use of non-violence as the first objective to achieve their goals and ensure maximum safety of the participants.
