“Corporation” became a bad word in 2011 thanks to the protest known as Occupy Wall Street.  Don’t worry, though, you won’t have to drop a quarter into the swear jar for saying “corporation” this year. That’s due, in part, because Occupy Wall Street is taking its final breath. 
Adding insult to injury, the Occupy movement’s demise should have happened months ago.
Combine a leadership-less mass of protesters, a muddled message, misguided activities and lack of resolution, and you’ll find the bottom line of the now-international protest phenomenon referred to as Occupy Wall Street. 
The goal: end corporate greed. The hyperbolic message: that the top 1 percent of income earners in the United States control 40 percent of wealth. The end result: none to be found. 
What is marvelous and simultaneously neurotic about the Occupy movement is that there is no formal leadership, no captain of the ship. Instead, each member of the protest is a leader, which places a huddle mass of protesters into collectivist chaos. 
While it was initially reported that the first faction of Occupiers wanted a presidential commission to separate money from politics-it seems that now achieving the abstract – ending corporate greed altogether – is the new focus. 
And therein lies one of two problems facing the huddled encampments — greed can’t bestopped. It’s an intangible state of mind held by a civilization.  
The analogy occasionally thrown around is that Occupy Wall Street is the 2011 incarnation of the Tea Party, in two principalities.  
First, both are popular movements regarding some form of gross impropriety in society.
Second, they aim to impose their view through unified action, from voting to civil disobedience.  The difference between the two movements is that one can effectively influence change (the Tea Party), the other cannot (Occupy Wall Street).  
The Tea Party emphasizes an end to big government, cutting taxes and eliminating the federal deficit. In 2010, the voting bloc influenced change by collectively voting out incumbent Republicans and Democrats who were not in line with that platform and electing new members who followed those principles of fiscal conservatism.  
Why can’t Occupy Wall Street do that in corporate society? Because corporations are controlled by their stockholders, not the American or global populace. Unless protesters decide to engage in hostile takeovers from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, it’s highly unlikely that their message will ever precipitate into actual change in corporate activities. 
Locally, there have been plenty of problems that faced Occupy Fresno. From limited interest and exposure to misguided efforts, the final remnants of the group belong to Fresno County Superior Court, where dozens of protesters await to be adjudicated regarding their illegal occupation of Courthouse Park in downtown Fresno. 
Occupy Fresno, at its peak, was an amalgamation of millenials and Peace Fresno protesters who provided mixed messages to the community. During its rallies, a spectator could easily find one banner complaining about the slim prospect for jobs and another rallying to pull troops out of Iraq.
One protest was extremely counter-intuitive: protesters encouraged the average person to pull all of their money out of the “big banks” and move it into small localized credit unions. The problem? On a grand scale, that kind of shift in bank accounts could create a monster of the same kind, with credit unions holding the same consumer power as big banks currently control. 
Now, the parks and public places that were once filled with tents have withered as winter dawned across the country. Since September, Occupy Wall Street, and Occupy Fresno by extension, has shifted from a young and strong protest movement to dignified homelessness and will soon reach its final resting place.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the various Occupy Wall Street legal defense funds across America.