Busted On Brooklyn Bridge

          Would you ever join a protest? Thousands of people did last Saturday on the Brooklyn Bridge, protesting against bank bailouts. The protests have been going on since September 17th and are most likely to continue on until elected officials acknowledge the problem. The group of protesters are marching up and down Wall Street trying to get their point across. The protests are gaining a lot of media attention, " I saw at least a couple dozen camera crews, reporters and photographers"( Page 1), which helps the protesters get their point across to even a larger audience. I am with the protesters, Why should banks be bailed out when the nation has a 9.1% unemployment rate (google public data explorer)? One protester said, " If the cops arrest 100 people, it’s the best thing they could do for us" because he knows that the more attention that is received, the better the chance of getting what he wants.
          Justin Elliott, a writer for Salon.com, is on the protester's side. He is not afraid to go on the protester's journey from Wall Street all the way down to the Brooklyn Bridge. Elliot's language is simple and easy to read, flowing from sentence to sentence. His audience is mainly people on their way to work, reading on the bus or subway, in his attempt to keep his fellow New Yorkers in the loop about what is going on right outside their doorstep. Elliott used the cover of this week's Wall Street Journal to back up his thesis. I don't believe in violence over simple things, but these people have been forgotten by their elected representatives and it was time that they stood up for themselves.

http://politics.salon.com/2011/10/02/occupy_wall_st_saturday/