Over the last few day, many have asked what, exactly, do the Occupy Wall Street (and Occupy SF) protesters want? Well, last night Keith Olbermann read a written statement issued by the general assembly at Occupy Wall Street. Among other things, they are asking for an end to the following with regard to corporate America: holding students hostage with tens of thousands of debt on education, "which is itself a human right"; blocking generic medicine; purposely covering up oil spills and other disaster; purposely keeping people misinformed through the media; perpetuating colonialism; outsourcing labor to cut workers' pay; cruelty of animals and covering it up; selling privacy as a commodity; determining economic policy; blocking alternate forms of energy for oil dependency; declining to recall faulty products; and on and on.

Occupy Wall Street went on to urge people to assert power by exercising the right to peacefully assembly by occupying public space and to "generate solutions accessible to everyone."

Here's the full video.

On Wednesday night, if you recall, SFPD asked residents of the tiny tent town outside the Federal Reserve Bank at 101 Market Street to close down the Occupy SF encampment.