Social Networking Spurs Wall Street Protest

NY1 ^ | 9/18/11 | Nicole Ward

[ponygirl]

Lisa Fithian said she's not part of any official group and that the “occupation” of Wall Street is the work of many people coming together with the same message.

"Wall Street is certainly the heart of why we're here. It's the corporations — the big banks in this country have been destroying this country,” said Fithian. "Overfees or high mortgages, student loans, the banks are touching every aspect of our lives."

She added that banks and the wealthy have taken money for their own interests and their own survival.

“The people here are saying enough of that," said Fithian.

Inspired by events around the world, she drew the analogy to Tahrir Square in Egypt and said the power of the people is leading to change.

"I'm here, I'm tweeting," said one protester.

[BBell]

This is from the show King of the Hill:

Hey, Dad, how did you know what was gonna happen with the protest anyway?

Well, when I was your age I went to protests all the time.

But I thought you hated protests.

Yeah, but my dad loved them.

Cotton used to take me to watch the hippies get beaten up and shot with water cannons.

Boy, I never saw him happier.

He'd set up lawn chairs and a big cooler stocked with cold drinks.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Works for me. I’ve been loving a good Hippie Beatin’ since I was 10 years old and witnessed the bombing of Sterling Hall at the UW Madison, WI.

Some of that stuff just sticks with you when you witness it at a tender age...kinda forms an opinion of how the world should be in black and white. :)