Many of us are probably unhappy with the current state of our country. Many of us probably have a desire to do something to change it. And many of us probably don’t exactly know how. Occupy Wall Street is providing us with an answer. How do we limit corporate control over our lives? We fight.

Chris Hedges writes:

“There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the wrong side of history…Either you taste, feel and smell the intoxication of freedom and revolt or sink into the miasma of despair and apathy.”

Nonviolent civil disobedience is the creed. Protesters occupying Wall Street have been there for 15 days, and rather than showing signs of weakness, the movement is solidly growing. They number thousands in New York, and branches of the movement have spread to several other cities throughout the country, including Boston, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Within the next few days, Washington D.C., Lexington, and San Francisco will also be home to branches of this movement, and in the coming weeks many more will join.

Despite the size and determination of the movement, the only mention it receives in the mainstream media relate to instances of unprovoked police brutality against the protesters. It seems that the mainstream media is deliberately keeping the majority of people in the United States in the dark regarding these protests. Any news channel that is ignoring the movement is acknowledging its complicity with the 1 percent in trying to silence the voices of the 99 percent. The good news is, with social media, the protesters have been able to inform a larger audience of the movement.

Their spirit is infecting the entire country, a country “…where the poor and working men and women are reduced to joblessness and hunger, where war, financial speculation and internal surveillance are the only real business of the state, where even habeas corpus no longer exists, where you, as a citizen, are nothing more than a commodity to corporate systems of power, one to be used and discarded…” as Chris Hedges writes.

Don’t let the 1 percent silence your voice. Speak out. And if you care about regaining control of your lives, join the movement. Listen to Chris Hedges:

“The state and corporate forces are determined to crush this. They are not going to wait for you. They are terrified this will spread…They have their metal barricades set up on every single street leading into the New York financial district, where the mandarins in Brooks Brothers suits use your money, money they stole from you, to gamble and speculate and gorge themselves while one in four children outside those barricades depend on food stamps to eat.”

If you care about correcting social inequality, fighting poverty, battling corporate greed, ending war, and/or reclaiming this country from the wealthiest Americans who in no way represent the majority of us, you have a place in the movement. Let’s Occupy Together.

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