Occupy Wall St.

The mainstream media is refusing to cover it so if you haven't heard yet, there is a massive protest going on across the US. It's called Occupy Wall Street and is a movement toward a lot of things, but everyone is united under the understanding that 99% of this country are being screwed by the 1% that holds the power and resources. This has come at an interesting time for me because I have been learning for the past four weeks how broken our country is and how our systems perpetuate inequality and generally do the opposite of what they were created to do.
The healthcare system has become so convoluted and exorbitantly expensive that it is no longer providing heath care for normal people. The criminal justice system (we sat in on a murder trial this morning) favors the rich and removes the poor from society by incarcerating them in a prison system that acts as a holding tank for violence instead of as an institution of reformation. Our politicians are being paid by corporations who are passing laws that favor them instead of the people that elected them into office.

And I don't know how effective this protest will be, but I know that things are broken and I want to get behind a movement that recognizes these problems and demands change. I don't want to be part of a generation marked by silence. I want something better than what we've been given. I want change.