A Response to Kate Wallace’s Blog Post “Occupy Wall Street Heading North”

Kate discusses the growth of the Occupy Wall Street movement and mentions that it will be interesting to see how the Canadian authorities respond to the movement as it heads to Canada. It has been more than a month since her blog posting, and recently, the Vancouver city police have started to move into the Vancouver Occupy site in an attempt to keep it up to safety standards.

The Occupy Wall Street movement is interesting, because as Kate discusses, it highlights a general sense of social inequality and “that the government has yet to prosecute any Wall Street executives who acted illegally and immorally leading to the economic crisis”.  However, the events of this most recent economic crisis cannot solely be blamed on Wall Street CEOs. Everyone played a role in causing the crisis, down to the regular individual who applied for a mortgage when they knew they could not pay it back. I am not supporting or condemning the Occupy Wall Street movement, but as protesters demand that the government and business CEO’s be more accountable for their actions, it would probably be a good idea that we average individuals also follow this request.

View Kate’s full post here: https://blogs.ubc.ca/katewallace/2011/10/09/occupy-wall-street-heading-north/

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