Wall Street protests: Is a movement taking hold?
Wall Street protests: Is a movement taking hold?
- October 5, 2011
- David Meyer, sociology professor, is quoted on Fox 28 October 4, 2011
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From Fox 28:
Called Occupy Wall Street, the infant movement is tapping into broad frustration and
even anger about big corporate profits, tax breaks for the rich, corporate lobbying
in Congress, and bank bailouts at a time when the poor and middle class are losing
ground in a generally sour economy.... "If you look at Occupy Wall Street, for example,
the demonstrators have been very unfocused in their demands," says David Meyer, a
professor of sociology at the University of California at Irvine, whose studies focus
on social movements and political sociology. "But they've gotten attention. People
hear about stuff, they start thinking of themselves as potential activists. So the
Occupy Wall Street frame becomes a holder for all of these other grievances, and other
groups are filling the framework with their own ideas."
A video link is available at http://www.fox28.com/story/15607055/wall-street-protests-is-a-movement-t....
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