While searching for the “Occupy” movement I stumbled upon
many blogs, websites, Facebook pages, tweets, videos, and news articles on the
topic. Many of which were very
interesting. I had little knowledge of
the “Occupy” movement before. I knew
what the protests were about but not in detail of all of the issues the
movement was fighting. For those of you reading this and not knowing about the
“Occupy” movement, it is a group of individuals with different backgrounds and
political beliefs but think that elected officials are incapable of
representing them unlike their wealthiest donors. So the “regular” people are now coming
together in saying that they don’t want the wealthy to have power in our
government anymore. The bigger issues that they are fighting are Corporate
Influence, Corporate Personhood, Student Debt, Wrongful Foreclosures, Too Big
to Fail Blanks, Healthcare, Living Wage, and 99% Budget Cuts. This covers a great chunk of what they are
all about.
They are in support of no leaders and to have
the “Average Joes” to take a stand and fight back, spread the word, and take
part in resisting, restructuring, and remixing. Their web pages are very inviting. All over their pages it says get involved,
work together, we are the 99%, spread the word, and join our marches. (occupytogether.org & occupymaine.org)
I don’t
think that the media is one sided, there are many people who feel strongly
about this and not all are in support. I
think that the news is showing both sides of the spectrum here, people in favor
are asking people to join together while others are yelling back “GO GET A
JOB”. I think that the media shows both
sides of issues and people in favor or not.
In my
opinion both social media sites and news centers are getting out the same
message. The biggest difference is that
with social media sites the posts are very “cut to the chase” and straight
forward while the news centers write articles that can be very lengthy giving
the reader great detail.
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