Spirit of Mahatma Gandhi is felt a lot: Guillaume Marceau

By Forbes India

Forbes India spoke to Guillaume Marceau, one of the many organisers of the Occupy Wall Street movement that is gathering pace

Guillaume Marceau
Age: 34
Designation: Member, New York
City General Assembly, one of the organisers of Occupy Wall Street movement
Career: PhD student in Computer Science at WPI (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) University
Education: 2002-2006 graduate student at Brown University
Interests: Maths, arts and programming

Q There has been disdain for capitalism as a whole...
This is a movement against corruption, criminality, cronyism, and regulatory capture.
Decisions [are] made by the rich in order to enable their thievery. Returning to a democratic capitalism would be an improvement.

Q How did this movement begin?
Technically, the movement began in late 2008. The crash and bail-outs revealed the recklessness of Wall Street banks. Over the next three years, we saw the impact of those decisions. Banks and corporate profits bounced back quickly to their pre-crash levels, while 99% of the people saw widespread unemployment and strife. 

An artist at the Adbusters magazine drew a poster of a ballerina on the Wall Street bull, stating,