Last weekend, I got together with a couple of my friends in New York. We went to attend an INSI debate on safety for international journalists, but more on that later.
On Saturday, more than 80 countries around world rose up in solidarity on behalf of the 99% which, in the U.S. is left with only 60% of the country's wealth. The past few years has shown us time and time and again how politicians' work only for those who finance their campaigns. Since the ruling on Citizen's United, the number who do finance them has dropped significantly, to the point where the 1% seem to have all the say.
While in New York this past weekend, we decided to go down and visit Zuccotti Park in Manhattan to see for our selves what the people there were like. The park was filled with good people - decent, hard-working people who have felt sold-out over the last decade for the benefit of those who don't NEED help, but who get extra benefits like icing-in-the-cake tax breaks anyway.
Following are some of the pictures we took while joining them in Zuccotti park as well as in Times Square that evening. When we joined them in Times Square there were several hundred, but we discovered later that there were upwards of 10-20,000 people who had gathered. The enthusiasm was infectious and my friend, Kathy, and I were thrilled to be a part of it all.
Power to the people.
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