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I have been thinking about the Occupy Wall Street movement.  Protestors need to up the ante. One way to do this, in my opinion, is to move the movement (sounds like a poop song) to a national park, forcing the actions taken against protestors etc. to come not just from the Mayor’s office, but from Washington, from the Federal Government. President Barack Obama will have to make the call. Though, technically, he could have already declared Zuccotti Park a national monument:   “The passage of the 1906 Antiquities Act was a landmark in the conservation movement. It provided the president of the United States with the authority, at his discretion, to set aside for federal protection large tracts of land as national monuments. Since 1906, presidents have used the Antiquities Act almost 100 times, protecting millions of acres of public land. Sometimes these decisions have angered landowners, who argued that they have been left out of the decision-making process and, thus, have had little control over local land use issues.” Anyway, back to what I was saying. I think that the first stop for a sit in protest on a National Park site should be the BRAND NEW Tenement Museum at 103 Orchard St.  A sit in at the Tenement Museum would bring to light the fact that we are quickly losing everything that so many of our immigrant ancestors fought so hard for, and remind people that our future is looking more like our past with labor unions disintegrating, collective bargaining being bullied out the door, and real wages and work conditions going down hill. We are becoming virtual immigrants. Actually, many of us are worse off on paper than our immigrant ancestors. They just had nothing, while we have student loan debt.  Plus, I bet they have some pretty sweet Tenement Museum wife-beaters for sale in the gift shop.  

I have been thinking about the Occupy Wall Street movement. 

Protestors need to up the ante. One way to do this, in my opinion, is to move the movement (sounds like a poop song) to a national park, forcing the actions taken against protestors etc. to come not just from the Mayor’s office, but from Washington, from the Federal Government. President Barack Obama will have to make the call. Though, technically, he could have already declared Zuccotti Park a national monument:

 

“The passage of the 1906 Antiquities Act was a landmark in the conservation movement. It provided the president of the United States with the authority, at his discretion, to set aside for federal protection large tracts of land as national monuments. Since 1906, presidents have used the Antiquities Act almost 100 times, protecting millions of acres of public land. Sometimes these decisions have angered landowners, who argued that they have been left out of the decision-making process and, thus, have had little control over local land use issues.”

Anyway, back to what I was saying. I think that the first stop for a sit in protest on a National Park site should be the BRAND NEW Tenement Museum at 103 Orchard St. 
A sit in at the Tenement Museum would bring to light the fact that we are quickly losing everything that so many of our immigrant ancestors fought so hard for, and remind people that our future is looking more like our past with labor unions disintegrating, collective bargaining being bullied out the door, and real wages and work conditions going down hill. We are becoming virtual immigrants. Actually, many of us are worse off on paper than our immigrant ancestors. They just had nothing, while we have student loan debt. 
Plus, I bet they have some pretty sweet Tenement Museum wife-beaters for sale in the gift shop.