Occupy Wall Street Protest Names Single Enemy: ‘Neoliberalism’

Critics of the Occupy Wall Street protest say it's all over the place. They say it has no clear aim or agenda.


Others wonder if it is being hijacked by a mishmash of groups with their own agendas. In the Philippines, for example, protesters expressed "solidarity" with the New York Occupy Wall Street movement by protesting against the stationing of U.S. troops. in their country.

Now, occupywallst.org, the Web site for the "NYC Protest for American Revolution," announced that it has a single enemy that seems to encompass most of the wrongs the protesters are railing against.

That enemy is "neoliberalism."

"Over the last 30 years, the [top] 1% have created a global economic system -- neoliberalism -- that attacks our human rights and destroys our environment," stated the Web site.

It blamed the following problems on neoliberalism:

• The high unemployment rate
• The inability of many people to afford health care, education, food and mortgages
• The "gutting [of] labor standards, living wages, social contracts and environmental protections"
• The European debt crisis
• The 2008-2009 U.S. financial crisis
• The massive surge in wealth of the top 1 percent 

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, a major agent of neoliberalism in the 1990s and early 2000s

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