The Ninety-Nine Percenters

The Occupy Wall Street moment continues into its third week, growing in numbers in lower Manhattan and in kindred demonstrations across the country.  Still not a movement, it resists efforts to categorize and pigeonhole protestors into some preconceived categories.  What is going on is a reawakening -- failing to find from Democratic leaders a populist strategy for countering the effects of four decades of organizing and building by Republicans, these early efforts are aimed primarily to provide an opportunity to realize they are not alone in seeing the system we have as a rigged game.  The presence on Wall St. , symbolizing wealth aplenty, undermines the official "scarcity" narrative that is used to quiet the discontented who realize the "scarcity" ruse is merely a diversionary maneuver to turn attention away from questions and questionable practices in re: distribution.