The perpetrators of the massive financial fraud have been allowed to slip quietly from the scene and continue business as usual. Our elected representatives in Washington have become so tightly intertwined with the financiers and bankers that public accountability has all but vanished.
#OCCUPYWALLSTREET is all about breaking up that cosy relationship between money and politics and bringing the perpetrators of the financial crash of 2008 to justice.
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greed is the corruptor
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Some Occupiers feel strongly that the movement should demand absolutely nothing from the economic and political system it’s rising up against. After all, the argument goes, the strength of the Occupy Movement thus far has been its potent indictment of the ruling class, coupled with its refusal to make any discernable demands or empower any official spokespeople
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However, by taking direct aim at the relationship between capital and the state, Occupy has raised the issue of class struggle in the U.S.
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Having raised the level of political awareness, the movement must now fashion class consciousness into political action
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The beauty of this new formula, and what makes this novel tactic exciting, is its pragmatic simplicity: we talk to each other in various physical gatherings and virtual people's assemblies … we zero in on what our one demand will be, a demand that awakens the imagination and, if achieved, would propel us toward the radical democracy of the future … and then we go out and seize a square of singular symbolic significance and put our asses on the line to make it happen.
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greatest corrupter of our democracy: Wall Street, the financial Gomorrah of America
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It's time for DEMOCRACY NOT CORPORATOCRACY
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Income Inequality Reframe: The 99% « Framed In Canada - 0 views
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Occupy Wall Street is shining new light on the question of how to frame income inequality.
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growinggap.ca project
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income inequality elicited many and varied response
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