Wall Street, Mass Movement, and "Real Democracy"

Name of Wall Street, the center of the world's largest stock exchange, became very popular, since 1000 protesters occupied it on September 17, 2011. Action of this mass movement later became known as Wall Street occupy (OWS).

OWS mass movement occurred because Wall Street has been blamed by activists OWS as the actor behind the U.S. economic crisis that never ended since 2008. Although the U.S. government through President George W. Bush and his successor President Barack Obama has disbursed more than 700 billion bailout dollars, but the crisis did not improve. Drop in stock in various stock markets, investors are panicking, foreign debt reached 15 trillion dollars, and the wild spread of capital flows has resulted in the fragile U.S. economy that had been controlled by capitalism. Aftermath of all this is, the occurrence of massive layoffs in the U.S. that resulted in high unemployment.

In this case, it can be said that the U.S. Government which is the political representation of people considered to have failed to overcome the economic crisis. Naturally, if the mass movement of OWS in Lower Manhattan, New York, continued and even spread to other cities such as Chicago, Boston, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Los Angeles.