Occupy Wall Street

That’s the name of this website.

Over a thousand demonstrators are protesting on Wall Street.  (Here’s another link.)

This is supposed to be a long-term civil disobedience campaign to draw the public’s attention to Wall Street’s crimes (whether these crimes are technically illegal or not).  This isn’t getting much coverage from the “media,” and most of their coverage is coming from corporate useful idiots blubbering about “class warfare.”

Granted, it does seem a little too 1960s-ish — a thousand people demonstrating against Wall Street, the mightiest empire in history.  But unlike the corporate-funded teabaggers, these protesters at least believe in something.

And speaking of Wall Street and the one percent of Americans who control everything, our NetFlix movie last night was The Company Men.  It stars Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Craig T. Nelson, Kevin Costner, Maria Bello and Chris Cooper (who???), who played the wackjob Marine Colonel in “American Beauty.”  The movie is about high-ranking corporate mucky-mucks who get downsized.  In spite of what you’d expect, these downsized corporate bigwigs are actually quite sympathetic in the movie.

I don’t think the movie got much fanfare.  Maybe the public has gotten jaded from too many movies about corporate corruption — Wall Street, Boiler Room, Money Never Sleeps, etc.  But the root cause of most of our problems is the corrupt corporate ownership of America, Inc., so let’s hope the public will get interested.