Occupy Jobs

Occupy Jobs

Alex Etienne       

For beginners, what is Occupy Jobs and why is it such a controversial topic in the current events of the United States of America and also throughout the world?  Although there may not be one clear, strong definition, occupy jobs can be described as, “A leaderless movement without an official set of demands.  There are no projected outcomes, certainly no dotted-lines, and essentially, everyone is a leader in this movement.  According to the Washington Post, “In the United States, anarchist-inspired spokescouncils convened hundreds of these groups to organize protest actions, conferences and community work. At the meetings, each group would position a single member upfront, in the inner circle, while the rest sat behind, like a human wheel with spokes. There were no leaders with long-standing assignments because every participant was, in essence, a leader. In lieu of a party line, this amalgamation of movements operated according to sets of core, procedural principles—called Principles of Unity—that reflected their anti-authoritarian, anti-discriminatory orientation.”  The next question then becomes: When does this all come to an end?  Or does it not?

When you have two sides that both want something different, it causes multiple problems and eventually leads to people taking things into their own hands.  This, in the case of Occupy Jobs on Wall Street, is exactly what occurred.  The general population that is out of a job is tired of not being provided with one while in many situations the government has promised to fix that.  Not only has the government not fully addressed this issue, in some instances finding a job now, in 2011, is even harder than it was in the worst point of our economy in 2009.  This is why the people of America and all over the world at that matter are up in arms.  Didn’t the government learn when they were twelve years old that you should never make a promise that you should not keep?