Oct 12

Things are a little crazy right now. First, here's my required link for class: http://www.uwobus111.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss  . Now there's all sorts of craziness with the Occupy movements out there, and I intend on doing a little investigating. On Oct 15, there will be an Occupy protest in Appleton, and I will be there to interview the protestors. I've read many conflicting reports of the movement, and I'm not sure what to think about it, other than it's distracting me from my schoolwork. Instead of getting my online homework done early, I've been pouring through government data I got online, trying to work out the numbers to support what I believe to be the theme of the movement, that 1% of the population has received the majority of the benefits of the last decade or so of a booming economy, while at the same time being sheltered from the ongoing economic uncertainty. The situation is a bit more complicated than I care to try summarize in this blog post (assuming I could, or even really understand it) but I will probably post something more conclusive in the future.