Don't underestimate Wall Street protest

Media are asking what the participants in Occupy Wall Street are protesting, who their leaders are and whether they intend to become the Tea Party of the left.

The 19th-century anarchist movement led to the eight-hour workday, the right to unionize and universal suffrage. The Bioneers Movement of today is bringing together thinking people concerned about threats to climate, environment and biodiversity, the future of Planet Earth and mankind.

Neither of these movements had or has a leader, hierarchy, membership list or manifesto. Similarly the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon represents a simultaneous convergence of people concerned about globalization, concentration of wealth and power, erosion of basic human rights and the economic and social marginalization of the majority. In part, they are responding to the emergence of Bandit Bankers to replace the Robber Barons of the 1900s.

This movement will not become a political party because a political platform would kill its power. Instead, it is likely to incubate many initiatives among diverse groups that perceive the danger of the path that our planet seems to be on and hopefully correct its course.