To The Editor:
Re: Leslie Sicklick’s letter “Stop Thanking OWS” (December 14-27):
As an unemployed elementary school teacher Ms. Sicklick needs to educate herself about Occupy Wall Street (OWS). This worldwide movement is taking great pains to educate and help people like her who express no anger about the plight of other unemployed teachers, the corrupt debt system that she and others have become entrapped in, under funded schools, the sick political system in this country and the attack on the middle class — amongst many other things.
They rage at being inconvenienced by protests and falsely claim that OWS is “scaring” school children (amongst other unfounded disparaging remarks). OWS actions, while possibly inconvenient to some, are necessary to publicize the drastic situation most people in this country find themselves in and to let them know there is now a place for them to protest. As for the “scaring” of school children, on the contrary, I have seen school kids waving and cheering from their public classroom windows when we protested the obscene foreclosures in East New York last week.
Ms. Sicklick’s anger seems misplaced at best — but she offers no solution for what I am sure she will agree is a situation that is rapidly going from bad to worse. Does she want us to continue to stay asleep? I for one am thrilled that we are finally standing strong and shouting “ENOUGH!” and want to thank all who are “thanking us.”
Bob Brooks
