BASED ON DAVID’S CASE: Given the specifics of the case, whic…
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BASED ON DAVID'S CASE: Given the specifics оf the cаse, which interventiоn аpprоаch would BEST support improved function across several daily occupations?
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This unit tаkes its nаme--"we аre the 99%"--frоm the chant оf Occupy Wall Street prоtestors. We will take it as a springboard for our discussion of Karl Marx and Frederich Engels's The Communist Manifesto. However, before jumping into Marx and Engels, we want to look back at the Occupy movement, and to think about why we might want to read Marx and Engels now. Let's take a look at an overview of Occupy Wall Street from Business Insider. In an essay reflecting on the movement and his own involvement with it, Mark Greif writes: The occupation’s purpose was to address the economy. No one could deny that private Wall Street banks had, in 2008, nearing collapse, made themselves whole with billions from the taxpayers’ treasury and put great sums from the rescue into their own pockets. They took taxpayers’ money and foreclosed on taxpayer’s homes. They unhoused the middle class while the executives renovated their third and fourth and fifth vacation houses. But principally banks, brought back form the brink of death, cast their weight, and all the power the democracy restored to them, against democracy: spending the citizens’ money in election funding and lobbying, to ensuring that good old laws, born in the Great Depression, retired in the 1990s, which had prevented such profitable (and self-destructive) speculation, could not be restored. Banks spent the citizen’s money to guarantee they were heard before any citizen. So the Wall Street occupation was meant as a reminder that the country could still demand its democracy, and put banks under the rule of law, and take something form them in recompense for our foolish generosity. (294) In many ways, Occupy Wall Street did not achieve its goals because it had no concrete policy demands. The movement was clear on the problems with American capitalism but not what their solutions should be. However, in another sense, the movement was successful. Occupy launched imitators across the world, and highlighted the extreme nature of financial inequality that existed within the developed world. Having watched the video, what do you think of the Occupy Movement? Do you find it inspiring? Disappointing? Disturbing? Something else? Share your thoughts below.