20130818 [This changes everything. Occupy Wall Street and the 99%]

I’m not that sure how far the Occupy Wall Street has gone right at the moment. I was touched when I got a glimpse over the description when I bought this book a year ago. It’s just more than a record of a movement. And I especially, love the book title – [This changes everything. Occupy Wall Street and the 99%].

After reading, one thing for certain, at least many messages and invaluable human natures that have to be recalled, have reached many of us, not only the Americans. Most importantly, they have emboldened many who dare not to speak up and stand tall.

I’m not that kind of person who falls blind to worship of everything foreign. Yet I really appreciate the westerners, who are really taking heart and dedicate much to their society, which open a world of possibility.

It’s stunning to find that income of the top 1% grew 275 % between 1979 and 2007 while those in the bottom 20 %, income grew just 18 % during those 28 years. This isn’t the kind of world we want to live in, and it’s we who have to decide what world we do want.

We know we can change it. All the social movements that came along with the Arab Spring have deepened the yearning for a new culture. Our love of freedom and democracy is what defines us as a people.

What we can do are… we march, we chant, we protest, we picket, we sit in… that makes me think of the song ‘Do you hear the people sing?’.

Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?

Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free!