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Main Street; cant bear more

Resistance — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 05:53:46 +0000

In reply to I have yet to visit occupy

Main Street; cant bear more bull from Wall street

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Donal — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:43:41 +0000

Second: the idea that nobody knows what these people are protesting about is willfully ignorant. The protesters are there because they believe that the financial institutions that comprise “Wall Street” exercise too much power in the country’s political and social life. That’s it. That’s what the message is. The reason this seems so obvious is because it is so obvious. “But where are their proposals?” I have heard people complain. “Do they want to put a tax on financial transactions, or do they just want to raise the income tax for wealthy people?” Are you kidding? Technocrats don’t make for good activists. Technocrats should be in Congress, or working at think tanks, or helping Congressmen to craft policy. Protests should do three things: they should express anger, through marches and targeted civil disobedience, at a particular political or social situation. They should give people the opportunity to see that other people, even people different from themselves, share that anger. And they should provide a vision of how life would be better if the world were different. Occupy Wall Street is doing all three of those things.

Can't wait to get your take

Oxy Mora — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:09:03 +0000

In reply to I went down to Wall Street

Can't wait to get your take on this. It seems that this movement really does have potential.

I went down to Wall Street

Michael Wolraich — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 04:40:38 +0000

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I went down to Wall Street this evening and ended up on the Internet working group, which is building a web presence for the organization. The protest itself was fascinating and at the same time infuriatingly chaotic. I plan to write it up here or at CNN in the next day or two.

I have yet to visit occupy

mageduley — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 04:23:49 +0000

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I have yet to visit occupy Chicago, but when I do, I want to be carrying this sign: