Wall Street Case

Occupy Wall Street, whether you read about it in the paper, saw it on the news, or so much as even took place in the protest, everyone was aware of what was going on. This gathering of people or otherwise known as the “99 percent” to protest the people of Wall Street was a rather large even that has occurred over the past few years. The protest was finally over once police started kicking protestors out of Zuccotti Park New York, in November of the year 2011.

Protesting has always been, if not the number one way to more effectively get a group of peoples point across. Sometimes the amount of people can be in the thousands. However, civil disobedience may seem wrong, but once you are standing up for a right that you strongly believe in does not matter once you truly think that you are doing the right thing. That being said, when it comes to protesting, civil disobedience really doesn't play that much of a factor.

If you truly disagree with a person, idea, or so forth, that you want to stand up for your rights and defend them, then I approve of civil disobedience in this matter. People deserve to at least get their point or view across on a certain situation. Sure their are better ways to do so without causing civil disobedience, protesting seems to remain one of the more effective ways to really fight back and demand what you believe is right.

The fact that so many protests have a long occurrence, the Occupy Wall Street lasted for a month and twenty nine days. The people were willing to cause civil disobedience just for their voices to be heard by the big people of Wall Street. People were sick of getting underpaid while the wealthy people of Wall Street continued to maintain and become more wealthy. The people who gathered to protest in New York realized what Wall Street was doing was wrong to these people who worked just as hard for their money but have yet to receive nearly the amount of money that the big people