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Friday, November 18, 2011
Occupy ... the antidote to asset stripping
Yesterday marked two long months since the "Occupy Wall Street" movement kicked off. We have witnessed the stages of reaction from the ruling elites as expressed within the corporate media. In the beginning, Occupy was ignored. Then came pundit ridicule. Now we are witnessing the stage of active resistance in which police forces in cities across the nation are hemming in demonstrators, incinerating their personal belongings and otherwise being utilized to make Occupy go away. Each attempt only results in demonstrators' adaptation and in increasing numbers of socially conscious people who "get it." The contradictions between the capitalist class and the rest of us have reached a level in which stability through the anesthesia of personal peace and affluence as promulgated by the corporate media is wearing off. When one percent of our citizens control 40% of the wealth and 90% of the shared income, the center cannot hold. This is a revolution. We may not be hearing strains of the "Internationale" but this impulse of correction has its own anthems of rap and drums and chants.
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