Oct 11th Occupy St.Louis (Great people) We got so deep into the atmosphere we werent able to capture everyone that came out for the cause..But there will be many more chances. Were gonna be Downtown everyday trying to speak with and interview people on their collective viewpoints in hopes to send a positive signal that St.Louis support for the occupy movement is thriving -n- Growing... The occupy movement is the middle and lower class fight against corporate America’s greed. Trillions of dollars have been invested in the past decade or more into war, bank bailouts and political campaigns. Millions of Americans have lost their homes to foreclosure, public school education is under-funded and college tuition prices are rising by the hundreds and thousands each and every year. By this point, consider yourself lucky if your family still has their home and jobs, and you have obtained a degree without debt and a great job to follow, if you could even make it to college in the first place. While our family members struggle to hold on to jobs, retirement, health care and homes, young people must wake up now and realize that this recession will affect us even more than our older loved ones. The trillions of dollars that make up U.S. debt will fall onto our shoulders, and things simply will not get cheaper or easier unless we stand up for our rights now. If tuition rates continue to rise at this same speed, it will cost $340,000 to attend a private college in 18 years, and that doesn’t include room and board. I’m sorry, did you say your kid was going to college? Right… Meanwhile, Wall Street traders and “banksters” have been juggling our hard-earned money around to earn maximum profit, at our expense. As Rolling Stone reported, “…in 2008, a barrel of oil was traded 27 times, on average, before it was actually delivered and consumed.” These “bets” on our market drive the price of our goods up, falsely. It gets worse. In addition to personal profits made through trading, these banksters take home more than 18 times as much money in median income than the rest of America. Bank of America rewarded a whopping $35 billion in bonuses and compensation to its employees last year. Wow. In 2010, $900 Billion US tax dollars were spent on war. In June 2011, $6.6B tax dollars were completely lost. This money was supposed to be spent on reconstructing Iraq, and the U.S. government was the last to have their hands on it. Still, a total of 4, 477 troops have died as of June 2011. These are all Iraq war statistics, and don’t even include Afghanistan. Yet of course, since 9/11, more than $1 trillion tax dollars have been set aside for war alone. Still, The net worth of black households fell by 53% in 2009, and hispanics suffered a whopping 66% drop while white households dropped a mere 15%. Additionally, white households had a median income of $107,472 more than black households in that same year. Nonetheless, the average American has suffered greatly over the past 4 years, but the minority groups are clearly hurting tremendously. GET INVOLVED!!!! Filmed by Michael Anthony and The Archetype Music By: THEmpeoplemusic.tumblr.com