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Kay Bradley

Occupied Wsj - 0 views

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activism Occupy Wall St. politics

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    Newspaper of Occupy Wall St.
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#occupywallstreet vs Avaaz « halfiranian.com - 0 views

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activism Occupy Wall St. politics clicktivism

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    New term: "clicktivism." Does organizing people via online petitions sap/divert energy from real life organization?
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As Scorn for Vote Grows, Protests Surge Around Globe - NYTimes.com - 12 views

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NYTimes.com wealth inequality WTO globalization protests vote surge

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  • income inequality
  • these protesters share something else: wariness, even contempt, toward traditional politicians and the democratic political process they preside over.
  • they have little faith in the ballot box.
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  • high unemployment
  • social spending
  • cuts in social spendin
  • protesters say they so distrust their country’s political class and its pandering to established interest groups
  • their political leaders, regardless of party, had been so thoroughly captured by security concerns, ultra-Orthodox groups and other special interests
  • could no longer respond to the country’s middle class.
  • anticorruption measure
  • less hierarchical, more participatory
  • the political system has abandoned its citizens.”
  • That consensus, championed by scholars like Francis Fukuyama in his book “The End of History and the Last Man,” has been shaken if not broken by a seemingly endless succession of crises
  • continuing European and American debt crisis —
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