Arguments based in emotions
Politics is one of the few things that Americans are emotional about. We have no common culture, not even a common language, no national religion, just sports and politics.
Second, in the broadest sense, in line with our core values and beliefs it DOES NOT MATTER WHY OR WHAT THEY ARE PISSED ABOUT AS AMERICAN CITIZENS THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO BE THERE so long as this country is still running under the Constitution of the United States because it couldn't be plainer than this: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. So long as they are on public property (and in Oakland there were at City Hall, pretty public that) protesting public policy and governmental decisions they have an absolute right to be there.
It's all about America. Wall Street is a huge part of America, as was/is the home ownership industry (banks, construction companies, real estate interests - and the biggest powers in America have always been the real estate interests, from day one, and they still hold awesome power and wealth that though seen by all, is power and wealth that is far more hidden than corporate power). All those bank defaults on mortgages put all that real estate into the hands of the banks, taking the last five-seven years of the default craze the amount of real estate that has amassed in the banks is the largest single transfer of property since the Louisiana Purchase. Doing this wiped out a huge segment of the middle-class - who've been having hard times since the 80s - because that house represented most of their total lifetime savings and investment. At the same time, student were graduating to fewer and fewer jobs, in an economy that though booming on paper didn't seem to be hiring anyone to get in to it.
Now it was the very rich, and the most money soaked corporations on earth - we bailed out, the gambling industry part of capitalism, the only industrial stuff that was bailed out amount to loans to Ford and GM, that have since been paid back, the rest went to bad paper, not anything real.
The fact that the 'message and solution' seem vague is because they are. But lots of very smart people have been saying for about 15 years now (and in some cases more) that the entire system was out of whack and about to spin out of control - and all those people out now are aware of it. Something is seriously wrong, and I don't care if you're right or left because everyone now pretty much feels it. And you can't begin to come up with solutions until you know the real problems, and we're just getting to the point where we can articulate those.
