The Occupy Movement has changed the way people think about the current economic climate and how their lives are being changed by a small percent of the population. It has awoken people to really think about how their money is being used and how no matter how hard they work, they can’t get ahead. The Occupy Movement has also changed the way people think about protesting in general. This group is not demanding anything and has no real power structure within the organization. The structure within the movement is also different as in the way that each group in a city is not dependent on other groups in other cites. The normal person is being exposed by this movement to really think about the way their life is going and how they chose their representatives within government.
Within the occupy movement no one has any real power. Within the movement everyone has the same amount of power so that a “leader” can not be removed. Everyone has a whole can take the leader role and anyone else can respond to that. Its a horizontal structure instead of a vertical structure. There is no center of the movement so that if one group of the movement is removed it doesn’t effect other parts of the movement. This new power structure is hard for outsiders to understand because of the way that the horizontal structure is so different from the vertical structure that everyone has. The People’s Mic is a part of the new movement as a new way to convey messages over an entire group of people. Its not really a one to many form of communication but its not a form of many to many either. It starts with one person say something and everyone around that person repeats the message and then the pattern repeats to spread the message all the way through the movement. Its a very new way to spread a message through a group of people.
