[Iran Press TV] An Occupy Wall Street (OWS) activist has slammed two dominant US political parties as servants of the 1 percent corporate executives, vowing that the 99-percenters will continue their struggles, Press TV reports."The real story of this [Democratic] convention is not what's going on inside but what's happening outside of the convention. There was a huge march there on September 2, called the March on Wall Street South (referring to Charlotte, North Carolina) where thousands of people turned out and raised the real issues that are affecting the working class people here in the United states," said Caleb Maupin, a young US political activist and OWS protester in New York during a Press TV interview on Friday.
"One of the things raised [during the march] was the [US] military budget," he said. "This military budget and the continued investment in weapons and bombs and destruction, this is not helping the American people, the people here are not benefiting from the $80 million dollars given to the state of Israel every day so it can murder Paleostinians."
Maupin insisted that an entire group of people supporting the Occupy movement have forged forces to show up at the Republican and Democratic political conventions for the past couple of weeks to push what he described as "the people's agenda," arguing that it is the Wall Street that dictates the agenda at American political party conventions.
"The people of Iran trying to produce nuclear power, is that a threat to the people of the United States? Absolutely not," he added, underlining that what is the threat to the American people is the power waged by less than 1 percent of capitalist leaders in the US over the 99 percent that oppose the corporate agenda.
The OWS movement activist further emphasized that despite persisting efforts by Democratic and Republican Party officials to push for an increasing military budget, "the struggle in the streets" is calling for jobs, healthcare and education, which are human rights,
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
"and we will fight for them on the streets."