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Occupy Wall Street Sparks Great New Mass Movement
The Occupy Wall Street protest is the spark of a great new mass movement for economic justice, for economic democracy.
This movement is finally answering the question, “How long are Americans going to continue to roll over and just take all this abuse?” 
The slogan of the protesters, “We are the 99%,” is a perfect one because it emphasizes just how undemocratic and unfair our current system is. (photo: phillip kalantzis-cope)
And the answer: “No longer.”
Michael Moore, in his movie “Capitalism: A Love Story,” singlehandedly put crime tape all around Wall Street.
But now hundreds and thousands of protesters are symbolically doing it, too. They recognize, as he did, that the bankers on Wall Streets are criminals who destroyed the economy and thereby robbed millions of Americans of their jobs and life savings.
The slogan of the protesters, “We are the 99%,” is a perfect one because it emphasizes just how undemocratic and unfair our current system is.
The top 1% in our society has been gobbling up more and more of the nation’s income and wealth over the last few decades.
This same 1% spends the lion’s share of campaign money to elect people to Congress and to state legislatures so they’ll pass laws that make the rich even richer.
That’s how our system works today, and will work tomorrow, so long as the Citizens United decision stays on the books.
People around the country grasp this.
That’s why these protests are extending beyond Wall Street to cities and towns around the country. I hope you’ll join one.
This is a new progressive populism that’s not going away any time soon.
Mitt Romney calls this “dangerous class warfare.” He would. His net worth is $200 million, he’s already raised $2.3 million from Wall Street, and he believes corporations are persons.
Ann Coulter calls this “the beginning of totalitarianism.”
Actually, it’s the beginning of real democracy. And it’s about time.
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Show AllRothschild writes, "I hope you’ll join one" Many of the CD readers have joined one. I hope Matthew Rothschild will join one. Sheesh!
yeah, isn't it great that we have a genius like Maathew Rothschild telling us what it all means?
What a clown.
My hope is that Matthew Rothschild will just shut up.
I can't believe that CD copies his drivel week after week.
Better to be called a "Socialist" than a "Capitalist".
Mitt Romney calls this “dangerous class warfare.”
Well, Mitt gets it right, for once.
It IS class warfare and it IS dangerous -- to him and his ilk.
Poor Mitt (who grew up in a family -- and religious culture -- where the father was absolute monarch, just one notch below God herself) has no clue how to deal with all his "children" talking back.
So he spews about class warfare, thinking it will put out the fire, when all it does is fan the flames.
Rallying
The Secret to Happiness ~ We Are Happening!
Find what brings you alive; and do it.
(not what "I should" to prove that "I'm good," or good
at being bad)
Maybe meet people enjoying it too;
they who give layered texture to our view,
expand our field of play.
Lather, rinse, repeat
as necessary.
Take it out to the street when necessary.
Do what you need to be
what you want to see.
Do what only you can.
Make this happening grand!
Do it today.
September 17, 2011
" Worthy or Unworthy People" is the bar set by the 1 % ruling class. They set themselves as " Worthy". Not even their own puppets ( aka elected officials at all levels ) are considered to be " Worthy". Well except for a few of the super rich who have placed the highest bid at the Nov Auctions. So Mr Rothschild how can you call this the beginning ? or the end of something ? this is SOS all right but also a worthy cause for the real worthy people the working class. I would hope that history does not repeat where things are rerun like this is 25 years. But it will.
- may the hunters shooting this morning here in Pine city, MN be sober.