Occupy Wall Street Movement

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACTiii

Introduction1

Discussions1

Analysis of the implications against the utilitarian, Kantian, and virtue ethics3

Utilitarian Ethics3

Kantian Ethics3

Virtue ethics4

Responsible for income inequality and wealth distribution4

Equitable outcome from the movement5

Predictions about whether movement will continue, fad away, or turn into something else6

Conclusions7

References8

ABSTRACT

Spontaneous movement, in September 2011 organized the Wall Street's first action as a protest against economic inequality. Subsequently, similar actions were carried out in other cities in the U.S. and the world. Thus, the following research paper is going to analyze the occupy Wall Street movement and its implications.

Occupy Wall Street Movement

Introduction

Occupy Wall Street (English for Busy Wall Street, also abbreviated OWS) is a Canadian movement by the Adbusters Media Foundation, a consumer-critical foundation, lively protest movement. Kalle Lasn, founder of Adbusters, and his editor Micah White, initiated first actions on social networks June 2011. These were in the wake of Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan in New York City occupied by protesters erected a tent city and renamed Liberty Plaza.

Occupy the Wall Street movement has touched a nerve among millions of people across the United States and internationally. At the center of this movement which has spread to hundreds of cities, is the deep opposition to the immense social inequality that is what most distinguishes the current U.S. and global society. Therefore, the following research paper will analyze the movement and its moral and economic implications.

Discussions

Spontaneous movement, in September 2011 organized the Wall Street's first action as a protest against economic inequality. Subsequently, similar actions were carried out in other cities in the U.S. and the world.

Moral and Economic Implications Involved

At the end of 2011, the global economic crisis emerged a social movement arguably more important in the United States since the war in Vietnam with the name "Occupy Wall Street" has begun. As a social movement, the movement came to occupy spaces. It started with a camp in Wall Street, New York and spread over 900 cities worldwide. Within this movement, is the discussion between the power of elites in the current democratic system in the United States and the growing division between "the haves and Have Nots". Occupy movement opened a debate on the reality hidden by the mass media; society has been separated into two parts, 1% and 99%. A clear result of the demonstrations is that the protests have prompted the conversation on the subject of equity and has returned to the national agenda. The slogan "We are the 99%" has become a cry mobilizing individuals to take their cities, towns and neighborhoods across the U.S.

So far we have referred to Occupy Wall Street as a movement and not as a series of protests. How can you argue that the protests are named Occupy a movement and not a moment? They are both. In light of the definition of Charles Tilley, from the beginning of the twentieth century, "the term 'social movement' has been recognized as a call to oppose oppressive power, as an appointment for the class action against the stricken" ...