So What SHOULD Be the Issues in the Wall Street Protests?

I am not sure the organizers really have a concept of it, and actually a march on Washington would be more effective because, after all, Wall Street wouldn't get away with what has happened if the perpetrators didn't have help from the D.C. pols bought and paid for by them.

Why now?  This may help explain it:

It is not the bankers who have to fear for their personal safety, but the demonstrators, who have been subjected repeatedly to police brutality and mass arrests for exercising their free speech rights.

Nonetheless, Sorkin’s warning about civil unrest is entirely justified. These are among the first prominent social protests in the United States in more than 30 years. Most of those involved in the occupations have never seen significant struggles for social change in their lifetimes. Coming on the heels of the mass demonstrations in Wisconsin last February, they signal the reemergence of open class struggle in the United States, the center of world capitalism.

Such struggles do not arise by accident. They are driven by the powerful contradictions of a world capitalist system which, three years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, has produced catastrophic unemployment levels and deepening poverty for millions, while those at the top continue to pile up obscene levels of wealth.

That won't change until these cretins at the top realize THEY are in danger if the course isn't reversed.

There is the very likely possibility it will be subverted.

Meanwhile, megamillionaire Mitt Romney is blathering about "class warfare" because he knows it is people in his parasitical elite circle who have declared war on everybody else in this country.