Occupy Wall Street has captured the imagination and passion of millions of Americans who have lost hope that our nation’s policymakers are speaking for them. We support the protesters in their determination to hold Wall Street accountable and create good jobs.
We are proud that today on Wall Street, bus drivers, painters, nurses and utility workers are joining students and homeowners, the unemployed and the underemployed to call for fundamental change. Across America, working people are turning out with their friends and neighbors in parks, congregations and union halls to express their frustration — and anger —- about our country’s staggering wealth gap, the lack of work for people who want to work and the corrupting of our politics by business and financial elites. The people who do the work to keep our great country running are being robbed not only of income, but of a voice. It is time for all of us — the 99 percent — to be heard.
Whether you work in a grocery store or a hospital, whether you have a family to support or are saving up for college, whether you are a union member or get no respect on the job, it's time we rise up together. The bottom-line is if working people don't stand up together and demand change, that 1% will continue to walk all over us. They might have the money power, but we have the people power.
Right Here All Over (Occupy Wall St.) from Alex Mallis on Vimeo.
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