Forum Post: OWS: It's Not About One Demand; It's About Your Piece of the Work

Thanksgiving Day, 2011, U.S.A.--I am truly thankful for the Occupy Wall Street movement. It has already done so much for me, for my fellow Americans and for my country. There is now a national dialogue that is focused on an inherent unfairness that has been festering like a cancer in our society. This sickness has manifested in symptoms such as unequal access to our political process, unequal access to health care and educational institutions, disparity of treatment under our legal system, energy, agricultural, transportation and housing that is not sustainable and a labor force that has been taken for granted.

Although ordinary Americans, like myself, have felt this sickness in our guts, we have been distracted from identifying it for what it is by a political paradigm that pits us against one another, a mainstream media owned by corporations that profit from our distraction and great wealth that until recently had been distributed just evenly enough to avoid mass protest.

We are no longer distracted! Thank you OWS. Read more