Sunday, November 20, 2011

Occupy San Diego

I went to the Ocuupy San Diego on Saturday afternoon. What an experience? I can truly say this is the first time I ever been involved in such movement. My first walk toward the Civic center, I see two policemen. Then as I took more steps in the center of the civic center, I see policemen on every corner. I also saw people, who were familiar with one another. This movement to me was one big family fighting for rights whether that was for economics, education, speech, etc. I notice that the people of this movement helped each other out with clothes and food. If you noticed, the civil center is surrounded by city council building, financial building, and a retail stores, fascinating! It is a person from the movement that told us the history of the Occupy San Diego. On the first day, they provided people with resources to better their knowledge. One guy told us that, this movement was to "be aware of your right", human rights that is. He emphasized that the United States treats us like consumers and not like human-beings. They have experienced police brutality. As told, it is not done in the morning, but at night when everyone is at home sleeping in there beds. One thing that I took away from it is that "we welcome all to participate in the resources that is provided to us." My question is, who do the police serve?The government? The people? or corporations?

1 comment:

  1. Personally, I see the police as serving no one in particular. Just as one of the other post stated the police are part of the 99% they are not getting rich for doing what they do. They are simply there working to put food on the tables and feed their kids. If they lost their jobs and were struggling to find work they would be at the movement also. I see them as the lady at the front desk who has to deal with angry patients when the doctor decided not to come into work.

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