Spokesmen for the Occupy Wall Street movement reported Feb. 23 that the movement does not support the Occupy Conference. The Occupy Conference will take place in Philadelphia later this year with two representatives from each congressional district in order to create a list of grievances to send to Congress.

Around the time when the mainstream media began to cover Occupy Wall Street, one of my responsibilities at my internship included interviewing Marva, a 65-year-old African American woman living on a fixed income in Ballwin, Mo. who had been fighting the foreclosure of her home for more than two years.

Though a guard stood outside the campus’ Bank of America branch on Friday, the five Washington University students protesting the “corporate greed” of big banks that day didn’t require police restraint. The students were calling on their peers to boycott large banks and move their accounts to small, local banks or credit unions.

Last Friday, I attended an Occupy St. Louis march that included a protest outside of Bank of America’s St. Louis headquarters. Participants included people of different ages, races, socioeconomic backgrounds and political beliefs. There were students, veterans, union members, toddlers, adults who reminded me of my parents, members of the St.

The “Occupy movement”—progressive protests focused on some of the inequality issues in the global financial system that started with Occupy Wall Street in New York City on Sept. 17, —has spread to other cities across the country, including St. Louis.

The Occupy Wall Street movement has, unsurprisingly, gotten a lot of attention. According to a recent Time magazine poll, 54 percent of Americans have a favorable impression of the protesters; take from that what you will.

The Occupy Wall Street movement has come to St. Louis and members of the Washington University community are getting involved. The movement originated in New York City last month as a protest of corporate greed and the nation’s current economic policies. St. Louis residents have claimed Kiener Plaza, in downtown St.

The world is on fire. The tragic death of a young Tunisian, Mohamed Bouazizi, sparked a fire that has spread to dispossessed and oppressed populations throughout the world—engulfing Egypt, Greece, Spain, Iceland and Syria, in short order.