A disruption at Davos Open Forum to discuss “remodeling capitalism” has caused a major embarrassment to Labour politicians, including British Labour leader Ed Miliband, who claim to be rooted in the grassroots.
Occupy protesters raised serious questions about the claim by the likes of Miliband, that they support the majority 99 percent of people where they are rooted, proving they do not leave their privileges to hear the very grassroots.
During Davos Open Forum, set up at the World Economic Forum venue in Switzerland, to stage a parallel debate on global economy with a wider participation of the public, Miliband and the director general of the International Labour Organization were among the speaking panel members.
An Occupy representative, who was also on the panel, called on others to leave the stage and continue their debate on the floor within the audience in an apparently symbolic move to leave the privileged few and join the majority 99 percent, which occupiers say they represent.
The debate centered on Occupy protesters' key principle of “remodeling capitalism”, to give a voice to the majority of the public in societies, where the few one percent of the privileged capitalists decide for the whole nation.
The Occupy representative, however, refused to continue the debate after the luminaries snubbed her offer to come down from their elevated position to the floor and hold talks in the fashion of the Occupy movement's assemblies.
She symbolically joined the almost 30 activists strategically positioned within the auditorium and they began to hold their own talks effectively disrupting the event.
Occupy protests, which began in the US under the name of Occupy Wall Street, have been calling on governments across the globe to take action to mend societies divided across privilege lines.
The activists are especially angry that the “few one percent” who take the positions of economic and political power across the globe have created an economic chaos, which has taken its toll on the ordinary people - the 99 percent.
