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An Analysis Of 'Occupy Wall Street Through Beckers' Ideal Democracy

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Occupy Wall Street Through Beckers “Ideal Democracy” Occupy Wall Street is a protest movement that started on September 17th of 2011 after being inspired by protests in Spain. Occupy Wall Street raises issues such as greed, economic inequality, corruption and the influence of large corporations have in the government. While Occupy Wall Street is still growing there’s still been a substantial impact in the cities it has reached. People are now more aware of the world that they are living in, no longer are they completely blind to the injustices happening all around them everyday. In relation to Carl Beckers “Ideal Democracy” Occupy Wall Street is the closest thing we can have that can work in todays world. Occupy Wall Street is merely Beckers …show more content…

OWS gives power to the people, the face of Occupy is the people, there is no one person that all the glory and recognition goes to, it is simply the 99%. Too often in todays government we have large corporations directing many of the behind the scenes action, swaying anybody and everybody to get what they want to work. That is precisely exactly what both OWS and Becker want to avoid in having a system such as these. The people need to know what is going on in the world that they live in, we as people vote so that we feel that we have power and that what we think matters. With the substantial downfall of the amount of votes received in recent elections we know that the 99% is realizing that what they want is not clearly being heard and that they feel powerless with the current …show more content…

When a key value of the movement is freedom of thought, and having your opinion mean something, you will have disagreements regardless of the circumstances. What defines the quality of the movement is how they deal with differing opinions, do you always do what the general public says or do you make sure that you aren't alienating a certain group of people and occasionally ignore the popular opinion? For Becker this will be one of the make or break points in the face of Occupy Wall Street, how do they deal with people opinions being heard but overall being ignored after the decision has been

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An unemployed millennial joins his fellow comrades, creating an army whose mission is to march to Wall Street, the pit of corporate greed. The army is equipped with picket fences and posters, and is ready to fight in order to seize what is rightfully theirs. They fight, and as the war they wage is continuing strong, those on the sidelines observe that the eternal struggle, the one marked with social media activism that has created an entire movement to Occupy Wall Street has changed absolutely nothing. Occupy Wall Street was an example of social media activism that demonstrates social media alone cannot change challenging problems, and confirms Malcolm Gladwell’s argument about the ineffectiveness of social media activism in affecting legitimate

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The book, The Occupy Movement Explained: From Corporate Control to Democracy, by Nicholas Smaligo is part of the Idea Explained series, the author offers a thorough and impassioned yet at sometimes biased look at the Occupy Wall Street Movement (OSW). Smaligo attempts to explain the formation and political//social basis for the Occupy movement, diagram how its leaderless and demand less structure functioned, offer a rebuke to some the criticisms and misconceptions of the OSW movement and to analyze the lasting legacy of the Occupy Wall Street Movement. The Occupy Movement Explained is a unique look at social movement offering the authors own experience and passion, in a addition to a variety of different peoples own experience with or critique

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