Occupy Wall Street has gone global, in cities all around the world, mostly the Western Hemisphere and Europe, which is very understandable since international banks put the global economy into the tank and everyone seems to know that now. This is the glory of instant global communication and because of it, a small gathering of people in lower Manhattan has become a worldwide movement of Occupy Everywhere. The revolution has begun, ladies and gentlemen, not with guns and bombs but with people protesting peacefully until the minions of the elite establishment sent their brutes in to bully and bash the people. The long dormant silent suffering masses have awakened from the shock doctrine of global fascism imposed upon them by international trade agreements that they had no part in negotiating nor would have approved knowing the consequences of losing millions of local jobs to import the same goods from Third World nations because labor is cheaper there. Revolution is now an example of Uranus in Aries revolting against the corporate criminals in business suits, the manifestations of Pluto in Capricorn. The last time this square happened, government reforms transformed our nation and the world, as revolutions spilled over into wars and the granddaddy of them all, WWII. It was the greatest mobilization of humans and equipment that has ever been deployed to a theater of war. October 15^th marks the day of Global Change as people gather in at least 826 cities in 76 countries around the world to fight the powers that have used us as slaves for their machine, manufacturing on one end and consuming on the other, often for useless, pointless and meaningless items. It’s high time we stood up the fat cats that profit from our misfortune and sell us goods we don’t need. The people united will never be defeated, a chant heard often on the streets, is becoming a force for true change as there has never before been this kind of global organized protest aimed at the specific culprits of the crimes against humanity; the banks and multinational corporations that put profit ahead of people.

It is most depressing that there are police departments around the country that have responded with over-reactive violence, abuse and brutality, of which the NYPD can be singled out. History is not absent here, as corruption has been acceptable to the fraternal order for many years and taking money from respectable Wall Street citizens to provide extra security would explain the excessive tactics they were using to protect Wall Street itself, as motorcycle cops ran over a legal observer and arrested him to prevent him from testifying to soon. What the cops are doing is outrageous and civil suits should be instituted against the force for its excessive use of force. Like the nation’s sign of Cancer, communities have officers of the law serving to protect the citizenry from violence, not inflict it. We need to come together to see how we can take care of each other to help us collectively flourish because, as Bill Clinton was fond of saying, a rising tide lifts all boats. From our amazing history we need to retain the old fashioned Yankee ingenuity to invent innovative new answers to the complex concerns and conundrums life presents us and resolve to solve the problems no matter how daunting the task. Indeed, technology played a major role in advancing the information about the Occupy Movement and has an exponential growth rate at reaching people compared to the older methods before computer connections like internet and email. Revolutions were localized for much of history especially under repressive regimes, as there was little access to outside influences, but today all that has changed and we know what’s going on half a world away with human rights groups reporting in real time conditions on the ground. Now, not only is the whole world watching, the rest of the world sees itself as part of the 99% getting screwed by our corporate masters. It is time to rage against the machine and revolt against our oppressors; the economic lords over men, AKA Banksters.

While your wages were stagnating for the past 30 or more years, the incomes of the wealthiest one or two per cent have been skyrocketing at an alarmingly shocking rate. Meanwhile, they pay taxes at less than half the rate you and I pay if they contribute anything at all and no way is that fair play. So, out in the public squares, the people gather to have their say, in a way not seen since the mid-‘60’s, when Uranus and Pluto conjoined in opposition to Saturn. This time, we know who and what the real enemy is; greedy criminal brokers and bankers who gamed the system until they broke it. One hedge fund manager was sentenced to eleven years for insider trading but there are far too many crooks getting off scot free, so it’s not much of a start. Something needs to be done immediately to allow protestors to see some headway in the Wall Street and banking reforms that forgive some portions of student loans and underwater mortgages. The Occupy Movement is the reaction to thirty years of increasingly fascist trade policies on both sides of the ocean, squeezing blood from the sweat of their laborers to pad their bottom line and line the bottom of their pockets. It used to be that you made something and traded it for something of equal value or swap things precious to each other without any intermediary. Along came commercial business and monopolies emerged, stamping out competitors or unions with brute force and hired muscle, employment for pre-mafia thugs and middle management bosses with an equally inhumane mentality. Tragedies would eventually lead to laws that protected workers and created mandatory education laws to prevent child labor from being more competition for cheap or virtual slave labor. Those were also days when pandemics decimated populations and health care was significantly stupid at the time, rejecting traditional cures without having viable alternatives in the name of science. Times have certainly changed in some respects, although we could use more of the traditional cures that work, whether or not you like chicken soup…it couldn’t hurt.

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