When it comes to Occupy Wall Street, everyone?s got an opinion. In his recent op-ed in the Wisconsin State Journal, for example, Karl Garson called the movement “raucous and inarticulate ? and bound to fail.” The reason, Garson claims, is “screw-you wealth” ? Wall Street doesn?t care what the people think. We agree that Wall Street doesn?t give a fig about Main Street, but we disagree with Garson?s conclusions. Occupy Wall Street, in its second month, is facing police repression, cold weather and other stumbling blocks, but it shows no sign of giving up the ghost.
(Susan Kepecs, MFA, Ph.D., is a freelance arts and culture writer, an honorary fellow in the Department of Anthropology and author of numerous scholarly and popular articles.)