The Occupy Wall Street Movement

Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is an ongoing series of demonstrations in New York City based in Zuccotti Park in the Wall Street financial district.  They are mainly protesting social and economic inequality, corporate greed, and the power and influence over government of corporations, particularly from the financial service sector, and of lobbyists.

The movement has been criticized for having no goals and/or formal demands. Other commentators see it as a "democratic awakening," whose motives are difficult to formulate into a few demands, saying that the current primary goal for the movement is simply growth.

On October 15, an attendee of "The New York City General Assembly", the governing body of the group, said that demands have been brought up, but "they were shot down vociferously under the argument that demands are for terrorists and that is not who we are."

Join Zaiyah007 and Uptown as they discuss this and other important topics on this weeks edition of Zaiyah's House.