Research Log #2

Goodale, Gloria. "Occupy Wall Street: flash in the pan or beginning of a movement?; A growth spurt sent the Occupy Wall Street Movement sprawling across the US and into other countries.  It's showing greater orgainzation and widening appeal.  Will it hold together?" The Christian Science Monitor October 4, 2011. Web.

This article was written at the very start of the Occupy Movement.  It talks about how the movement was first starting to become a serious situation and how it wasn’t just a movement based around only Wall Street or even New York, but it had now grown to a global scale. The article also talks about the main groups of people that are starting to take place in this movement, saying that it tends to be people under the age of 30 and how they are using social networks from Facebook, to Twitter, and even e-mail. Why I chose this article was because it hits main points of what the movement is all about. It says that the movement is a leaderless movement of the 99% of Americans from all race, age, and gender that are being corrupted by greed and corruption of the top 1%. They are looking for a solution to the damage that has been done to the US Economy by the top 1%.

When I first read this article I was still pretty unfamiliar of what this occupy movement was all about. Now I see that they are just a group of people who are trying to make a difference through a nonviolent movement trying to achieve a solution for the debt that has come from what they believe is the greed and corruption from the top 1%.  “The movement was sparked by individuals targeting what they see as the excessive political pull of big banks and the financial sector in contributing to policies they feel are detrimental to the middle class” said a Villanova Professor.One protester described the Occupy movement as the “Movement of all movements”.  My reaction from this quote in the article written about 6 months ago was that I wondered if they would’ve known the growth of this movement throughout the globe and through many college campuses including our own Chico State.

The reason I chose this source was because it written right at the boom of the occupy movement. It had just traveled across the country and across the globe. I want to see what they have achieved in the last 6 months now and if they are anywhere close to where they want to be with the solution.  I am also interested in what has been done to help the movement besides all the nonviolent protests that I have seen personally at 3 different college campuses in California, including here at Chico State. I am excited to see what has come from the movement and the steps that have been taken to achieve their goal.