Friday, October 21, 2011
A Reminder For OWS
OccupyWallStreet: Nucleation and crystallization « The Confluence: "... By they way, Graeber is overlooking the strength of this movement if he thinks it is centered on young people. The reason it has become so incredibly successful is that when there is a big march, it is the regular working stiffs who show up to them. If it were just students, the media would have an easier time writing them off. But it’s not just students. It’s union people and unemployed people and teachers and actresses, and chemists and older people and families with kids. The 99% percent really means just about everyone. It doesn’t mean “all 99%-ers are equal but some 99%-ers who are young with student loans are more equal than others”. Some of us have mortgages and no jobs. We count..."
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