The Globe and Mail
Monday, October 17, 2011
Over the weekend there was a gathering in many cities across Canada related to the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrations that had taken place in New York. People from around the greater Toronto region gathered at a park to show their support of the cause in a peaceful manner. Organizers had used a social media webpage to communicate the event and were figuring out their approach for when businesses would re-open in the Financial District on Monday. The article stated that there were two possible routes for protesters from different organizations, but the main concern for police would be how the march would impact people trying to get to work Monday morning. Throughout the country there are concerned citizens about the gap between those with money and those without.
After reading the article I was able to gain a better appreciation for exactly what was going on, and how some Canadians were feeling towards the situation. It will be interesting to see how many people show up on Monday, in Toronto, for the demonstration. Usually when you hear about protests which are worldwide, there is a degree of vandalism, or things eventually get out of hand. It's nice to hear that so far this has been a peaceful demonstration, and I hope that it continues to be for the days to come. After reading a related article (link below) it is interesting to see that there is no cohesion between the protesters. “As one annoyed participant said during one of the meetings: “I’m not even sure what we are discussing right now.” It will take better communication and organization to have an effective protest in my opinion.
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This is very interesting, because all of the protests we hear on the news have some sort of violence associated with it. In some countries, this is necessary given the situation they are in. Regardless, a protest like this is a perfect example of democracy.
ReplyDeleteOn the 18th of October, I was sitting down and watching this same exact news. I think peaceful organizations is critical and beneficial to the US, considering they are in such a huge recession. At first, I have to admit I was quite shocked that wall street was offering this in New York. Usually it has some violence involved. But on the up note, it can really help the people of New York get together
ReplyDeleteI am totally agree with your opinion. It is really good to know that such demonstrations is still exist in our time, but usually most of demonstrations around the world ends fight or riot.
ReplyDeleteIt's really a large peaceful demonstration. It shows that people around the world want more democray, I think the next demonstration in Toronto will be more interesting. I'm looking forward it.
ReplyDeleteThe people that are involved in this protest have gotten much calmer then before. Last year at the G20 summit, it was a much different atmosphere then the protest going on here. It is nice to see that people are getting their message across without the use of vandalism or violence. When a demonstration like this makes the globe and mail news, they usually get very crazy and dangerous. Another issue that was mentioned was the traffic. It will be very hard for the people in that community to get to work in the morning. It is a big inconvenience for those people and if there is no other way for them to get to work, they really are stuck with no options. However, the most important thing is that this demonstration remains peaceful with no vandalism or violence.
ReplyDeleteThe protest are very peaceful and is a good example to the other country. Like Hong Kong, in Hong Kong we used to have protest but is more violence. People will fight the security, throwing bananas, shouting loudly during the president's speech. These kind of actions are not acceptable. Toronto had demonstrate to the world how protest should behave.
ReplyDeleteI seriously don't see a point in those protest. To me all the people that are protesting must be failure in life that wants money without working for it.I think the people protesting should think about why they didn't study hard during high school and university instead of expecting other people to hand out money to them.Like I wish that is the case too where you can sit back, let other people do the work and get what you want. But sadly that is not the case. Never say that other people are stealing money from you when they worked hard for it.
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people idea on how it is great that this has been a peaceful protest.I agree that other protest have been violent, like the G20 but when you compare the violent one with this one you can see a lot of difference.First of all unlike other protests, there are no huge police force or military involve so people don't really have a place to express their violent. Secondly the goal of these protesters are to be lazy and get money. If they be violent, it won't be nice to spend time in the police station and they will not likely to get the money.
I'm glad about how the protesters choose their way of protest. If they choose the violence way they may lose even more money because of hurting a police officer, breaking public property..... And they need to pay the government. Although they are using the peaceful way of protesting, they also blocking the traffic during the rush hour, I think maybe they should choose another time like during the weekends, because they can’t using others’ time and they’re mostly people that are very tired after a day of work who want to get home as soon as possible, to spent time with their family.
ReplyDeleteIn our advanced-technological life there is so much drama and controversy that that makes headlines all over national news.Whether it be the Vancouver Riot, the war in Afghanistan, the G20 summit, it always involves people fighting over sub-atomic issues. It's nice to see a collection of people finally have a peaceful protest with rebelling. To me, it's just a matter time before another large protest occurs, and two country's declare war upon each-other.Hopefully, we can prevent a world war from happening a third time.
ReplyDeleteI agree and disagree because I think that It is good that everyone should be equal with the amount of money they earn, but others work harder so they should recieve better pay. If someone never worked hard to get where they are and they are complaining because they dont get payed enough, that is there fault. but is someone is being unjustly treated even when they deserve better pay then they have a right to complain.
ReplyDeleteWhen I read this article, I was off guard from the protesters. Usually there is some violence involved. I think this will bring the organization together because its more peaceful . On the other hand, I believe these protesters should not be blocking the roads. Lots of people probably missed work and that could reflect in them losing there job. However, the most important things is that this demonstration remains peaceful.
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I believe that the protesters chose their way to protest. If they do it violently they could loose a lot more money by assaulting police officers and breaking down buildings (houses stores etc.)
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