The new “Occupy Wall Street” movement, which has expanded to multiple cities across the country, is a call for accountability in government and an end to corporate greed and
corruption. This movement has grown massively across the country in a matter of weeks (in the form of numbers and support); a huge sign of adamant discontent between the average resident of our country, and the Federal Government that continues to govern harshly and archaically, in many instances based on decades old morals. What can be said from this is that people are aching for change, and have come to the conclusion that standing up and uniting against obvious corruption is the only thing left to do.
A lot can be said about a group of people fighting back against injustice.
It can be unclear to some exactly what the Occupy groups stand for, mostly because the group is so spontaneous and full of breadth that the issues have yet to be thoroughly narrowed down. What is clear though – the group stands for a change in the way things are done, a change in corrupt politics and a end to corporate greed and domination (which many believe is the cause for the top 10% of wealth earners in our country controlling more than 80% of the country’s wealth).
Despite not knowing all of the precise ideas that will eventually surface in the movement, one of the most engaging factors is the tenacity of those involved. This is something that the cannabis reform movement tends to have in common with the Occupy movement. Standing up loudly to corruption, and having no fear in publicly displaying it, is something often necessary to be involved in either movement, and there’s rarely a clearer definition of government corruption than the prohibition of cannabis (as well as corporate corruption, which is one of the reasons cannabis was ever made illegal). Both movements, though undeniably standing on their own accord, clearly have parallels, and it will be unsurprising to see many people dip their feet in both movements.
And it makes sense. The utter denial of our freedom through the implementation of laws that incarcerate individuals for the use of a plant and medicine is a form of governmental overstepping that is the exact kind of thing we should be revolting against (and is a denial of democracy when over 70% of the country supports access to a medicine that the government continues to attack us on). It’s hard to say if there are many other laws that are so clearly corrupt and unjust, and the Occupy movement has every reason to stand firmly behind reforming these unsound laws (or fixing our political system to make it easier to do so).
-TheJointBlog
