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Solidarity
“The more we shed ourselves of national identity in this fight, the more we grasp that our true allies may not speak our language or embrace our religious and cultural traditions, the more powerful we will become.” –Chris Hedges on … Continue reading
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Tagged liberty, occupy, protest
Life After Death
Egalitarians must work to take over the Democratic party as the Tea Party has recently taken over the Republicans. Action in the streets will lead the way, but we must have electoral strength to make our leaders follow through with the changes we demand. Continue reading
Interrupted
“The way things are needs to be interrupted, so that we can hear about the way things should be.” -Professor Richard D. Wolff of the University of Massachusetts and the New School, as heard on his WBAI show, “Economic Update”.
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Occupation
We must recognize that no one beholden to Big Money can lead America towards being a truly democratic republic. Continue reading
Occupy
The movement, Rowe said, “stands for everything I believe in. I’m exhausted. I got rained on. I was cold, but I can’t seem to pull myself away.” -Patrick Rowe, 48, a carpenter from New Jersey who joined the movement after … Continue reading
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American Don’t Rebel
How do you break through the inertia, fear of embarrassment, isolation and aversion to doing anything different that surrounds most middle-class Americans like a moat? -Gary Kamiya on the needed ad campaign to swell the ranks of Occupy Wall Street, … Continue reading
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Tagged democracy, protest, usa
Narcissistic Chic
The neohipster is a grotesque perversion of the original. If he fetishizes and hybridizes the cultural costumes of old hip—borrowing from the Beat poet, the jazzman, the rapper, the skater, the punk—it is only as a mockery of authentic anti-authoritarian … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, protest