How to explain Occupy Wall Street to a 6 year old

From neek5again

“I went to Liberty Square and asked people to explain Occupy Wall Street to my six year old daughter. Thanks to all the people that shared their perspective with me.
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Naomi Wolf: The First Amendment and the Obligation to Peacefully Disrupt in a Free Society

Naomi Wolf, from Huffington Post

Mayor Bloomberg is planning Draconian new measures to crack down on what he calls the “disruption” caused by the protesters at Zuccotti Park, and he is citing neighbors’ complaints about noise and mess. This set of talking points, and this strategy, is being geared up as well by administrations of municipalities around the nation in response to the endurance and growing influence of the Occupation protest sites. But the idea that any administration has the unmediated option of “striking a balance,” in Bloomberg’s words, that it likes, and closing down peaceful and lawful disruption of business as usual as it sees fit is a grave misunderstanding — or, more likely, deliberate misrepresentation — of our legal social contract as American citizens.

A look at the ‘top 1%” and Occupy Wall Street

Willie Nelson backs Occupy Wall Street with poem “We’re the ones we’ve been waiting for”

“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for” comes from a Hopi Prayer:

The Hopi Elders Speak
The Elders Oraibi Arizona Hopi Nation

“We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For”

You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour.
Now you must go back and tell the people that this is The Hour.

Images from Occupy Wall Street via Livestream

Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie in 99% Solidarity “This Little Light”

Occupy Columbus Circle 10/22/11

92 year old Pete Seeger marched down Broadway to Occupy Columbus Circle in solidarity for the 99% Occupy Wall Street. David Amram, Arlo Guthrie, Top Chapin sing “This Little Light of Mine” Odetta was there in spirit. “We are the 99%”