Reasons for occupy Wall St and other protests

Have you been watching the news recently and seen lots of people sitting in protest in various locations throughout the world?  Have you been wondering what it is all about?  Why the people are protesting?  Information is Beautiful have made a video to explain why and it is embedded below.  This video is from the American perspective.


and so to get a more global look I have put another video from John Clarke and Brian Dawe which looks at the situation from a different angle.