Forum Post: is...?
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 14, 2011, 9:48 a.m. EST by bravo91
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is the ows movement really a bunch of anarchists, hippies, debt-ridden students/students, and homeless people? im getting the impression more and more even after visiting the encampments in st. louis, nebraska, and even in downtown charleston.
i feel like i see less people who are actually true to the cause
Honestly, it really depends on what you consider the OWS movement. The actual encampments are going to be composed far more of the unemployed and homeless, which means you'll have a mix of debt-ridden students, blue-collar workers who lost their jobs and haven't been able to find new ones, and people who are bona fide homeless who want to come aboard. There are a fair number of hippies there, and far more anarchists than I would like.
That said, these groups are far from the only people who are involved with OWS or who care about the cause they're protesting for. There's a very large group of ordinary, productive, employed Americans who don't have the time nor the money to quit and move into the park but who realize that something has gone badly wrong with our economy and parts of our society in general. It's these people that are most likely to set the terms of any concrete political change that's going to come out of this.
Well...anarchists, hippies, debt-ridden students/students and homeless people can all be towards this cause, though they are absolutely not the ONLY people working for the cause. It doesn't mater what we look like or where our station happens to be in life, we can still see the financial crisis as an issue on a large scale. Right now, the only people in the movement who are actually against the cause are those supporting violence and vandalism. In essence, right now when you visit an occupy movement it does feel a little like a shanty town, but that's the nature of what is happening in America right now, and all over the world before now. Tent-cities existed in the states before the occupy movement. Now they exist more in everyone's face. Martin Luther King Jr. himself promoted the idea of creating shanty towns in the middle of major cities to make homelessness and disparity standout against the seemingly modern and improved America.