Occupy Wall Street Analysis Introduction to the Topic With the purpose of protesting the extreme economic inequalities faced as a result of corporate control, the Occupy Wall Street protests began on the 17th of September 2011 in Zuccotti Park. This protest then resulted in the Occupy Movement spreading worldwide to bring attention to the economic and social inequalities that have occurred due to that influences that corporations have economically around the world. The Occupy Movement, particularly the protests seen on Wall Street during September of 2011 can be applied to this course because of the police presence seen during the demonstration and the excessive force used that could be described as police brutality. What I will be looking at through this event analysis on Occupy Wall Street is how exactly the protesters are …show more content…
By looking at the characterization of the protesters and the amount of force utilized by the police, it can be determined whether or not the amount of force used against the protesters that were being described as anarchists was necessary. Based on this the main focus of this event analysis will be on the human rights violations and the excessive and aggressive use of force used throughout the Wall Street protests, as exemplified in the article Suppressing Protest: Human Rights Violations in the U.S Response to Occupy Wall Street. Literature Review The main article that will be utilized within this event analysis on the topic of the Occupy Wall Street Protests is Suppressing Protest: Human Rights Violations in the U.S in Response to Occupy Wall Street. This particular article looks at Occupy Wall Street broadly through the discussion of several topics such as policing guidelines, international laws and protest rights and the excessive use of force conducted by the police. The specific section of this article I will be
Civil disobedience spawns a major and widely debated issue by many who established by well-known intelligent scholars and many examples of civil disobedience become displayed. The acts of civil disobedience can be noted in major works such as Sophocles?s Antigone, King?s ?Letter from Birmingham Jail?, or even from Plato?s ?from Crito?. A specific claim exemplified throughout these works make that civil disobedience races in gaining popularity and should remain allowed, and continued to be seen as a solution to reform poorly established laws. A claim represented is, civil disobedience is right. Rhetorically, appeals such as credibility, logic and emotion can provide support for these claims.
African American’s still are thought to be discriminated against by law enforcement, according to recent scenarios which have occurred. For example, Eric Garner was seen to have been physically abused by police and many of the public believe this is because he was African American. Though racism is less common today, it is still relevant and apparent in society. Violence is still used by both individuals and law enforcement, as well as as a form of protest in some circumstances. Though there is still some violent-protests present today, for humanitarian reasons this form of protesting has become less common throughout all of the ethnic
The strategies that the protestors effectively used were terms of logos, speaking rationally on the real effects. They address their evidence from testimonies and examples, provided by the San Diego Police Chief and the California General Election Official Voter Information Guide. Since their evidence is against Kaplan and Emmons, they appear to use fallacies like Slippery Slope, stating that if we let some criminals free, then we will eventually let all crime be legal. As the California Police Chief Association concludes, “When a career criminal steals a firearm, or a suspected sexual predator possesses date rape drugs, or a carjacker steals yet another vehicle, there needs to be an option besides a misdemeanor slap on the wrist” (Boyd
The media takes this news focuses on the protestor’s violence and showcases them as the ones creating a scene. The media then showcases police as the ones that have to deal with the situation by detaining citizens, thus making them look like the good guys. The mayor and chief police also take away from the citizen’s freedom by allocating a 7pm curfew and a 25 block ‘no protest zone’. So if individuals were to not follow the set curfew they can be detained even if they had nothing to do with the protest. Police started attacking citizens even before curfew, which stripped citizens more of their freedom and liberty to protest. Individuals who were leaving their office, and who were not apart of the protest were also taken to prison, even when they followed procedure. This proves that the actions taken were not a part of the due process system where we protect individuals but rather part of the crime control module where we screen out innocent people and get them into the
In response to a protest at the McCormick Harvester factory in Chicago where the police reportedly killed six workers, local radicals led by Albert Parsons organized a meeting at Haymarket Square in downtown Chicago. Several thousand showed up to hear the speakers. The speakers were very careful to not incite violence in the already agitated crowd. After the speeches had been given large numbers of people left, however those who remained behind would be forever remembered in our history books. An army of police descended on the crowd and gave them an order to disperse. During the confusion, an unknown person threw a bomb into the crowd of police, killing one officer. Police began to fire on the crowd; the agitated strikers retaliated with a hail of bullets as well. A riot broke out in which one worker was killed and twelve were wounded, one policeman wa...
I would recommend this book to a wide range of persons with a wide range of interests varying from global civil rights movements, political scientists, historians, social reformist, to the college student whom is activity participating in Occupy Wall Street demonstrations of 2011. In my opinion, the book is a tribute to strong journalism written f...
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Demonstrating a form of protest that was more of an art form and a statement than riots and violence, in September 2011, people occupied New York 's financial district of Wall Street over issues that Henry David
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There are many features of civil disobedience. Civil disobedience according to Rawls must be political in nature; agents engaged in civil disobedience must be appealing to a “common conception of justice”. It is aimed at changing the law, thus, it is a method requiring political engagement. The goal of this is to bring the law into conformity with the theory of justice. In order to make it a particularly clear case of rejecting the ou...
One hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation was written, African Americans were still fighting for equal rights in every day life. The first real success of this movement did not come until the Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954 which was followed by many boycotts and protests. The largest of these protests, the March on Washington, was held on August 28, 1963 “for jobs and freedom” (March on Washington 11). An incredible amount of preparation went into the event to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of people attending from around the nation and to deal with any potential incidents.
Ball, Andrea. "The Occupy Protesters Are Inspired by the Civil Rights Movement." The Occupy Movement. Ed. Stefan Kiesbye. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2013. At Issue. Rpt. from "Occupy Protests: Flash in the Pan or Social Movement?" Statesman.com. 2011. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 19 July 2014.
Police brutality is a deadly weapon used against minorities. The very first cases of police brutality date as far back as the 1800’s and early 1900’s. In recent years, much debate has arisen about whether or not policemen/women should be held accountable for their abusive actions. Physical assault among the police force and the public have become more persistent. While some audiences feel that excessive force is deemed necessary, more and more people are beginning to realize that police officers are abusing their powers and using excessive force among the public. The minorities. The poor. The people who pose little threat. Overall these three phrases above have one detail in common—they are the victims of police brutality.
The four forces of socialization, or how an audience, technology, the media industry and the product of the various media outlets react in the social world and the social construction of reality or the power to influence have concentrated on the Occupy Wall Street (Croteau, Hoynes, & Milan, 2012). Audiences have tuned into this movement since the first protest in September of 2011 (Occupy Wall Street, 2011). Protestors have been painted as “a motley collection of punks, anarchists, socialists, hackers, liberals, and artists” (Scherer, 2011, p. 22). A report by CNN (2011) stereotyped the protestors as hypocrites, because they have recently occupied an office near Wall Street, with a copier and furnishings, instead of the parks they had formerly protested from. An Occupy rep resp...
Surname 3 Author Tutor Course Date Inaccurate Portrayal of Drug Use and Effect in ‘The wolf of wall street’ In this movie, The Wolf of wall Street, it clear that the use and effect of drugs has been inaccurately portrayed, and after watching the film one may feel like using drugs makes one a hero, which is not the case.