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Washington Post: The Second American Revolution
Started by Seneca, Oct 06 2011 12:08 AM
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Posted 06 October 2011 - 12:08 AM
By Elizabeth Flock
10/05/2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpo...og.html?hpid=z2
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These are not the few bedraggled Occupy Wall Street protesters we knew in September.
Representatives from some of the most powerful labor unions in the country have arrived to march alongside the protesters, and students from New York universities joined the demonstrations this afternoon.
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The reinforcements have added both size and credibility to the movement, which began Sept. 17 with a few dozen camped-out college students, and has voiced opposition against everything from corporate greed and bank foreclosures to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and unemployment
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The movement has also spread to cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington.
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Protesters want to “End the Fed”.
[Video of Incredible Speech by Wall Street Protester “End the Fed”]
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told the Joint Economic Committee Tuesday that he understands the protesters' frustrations.
“I would just say very generally, I think people are quite unhappy with the state of the economy and what’s happening,” Bernanke said. “They blame, with some justification, the problems in the financial sector for getting us into this mess, and they’re dissatisfied with the policy response here in Washington. And at some level, I can’t blame them.”
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PROXY WHORE 1000! EVERYONE GET ON YOUR KNEES AND...
Posted 06 October 2011 - 10:14 AM
QUOTE (Seneca @ Oct 6 2011, 01:08 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
By Elizabeth Flock
10/05/2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpo...og.html?hpid=z2
Excerpts:
These are not the few bedraggled Occupy Wall Street protesters we knew in September.
Representatives from some of the most powerful labor unions in the country have arrived to march alongside the protesters, and students from New York universities joined the demonstrations this afternoon.
...
The reinforcements have added both size and credibility to the movement, which began Sept. 17 with a few dozen camped-out college students, and has voiced opposition against everything from corporate greed and bank foreclosures to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and unemployment
...
The movement has also spread to cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington.
...
Protesters want to “End the Fed”.
[Video of Incredible Speech by Wall Street Protester “End the Fed”]
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told the Joint Economic Committee Tuesday that he understands the protesters' frustrations.
“I would just say very generally, I think people are quite unhappy with the state of the economy and what’s happening,” Bernanke said. “They blame, with some justification, the problems in the financial sector for getting us into this mess, and they’re dissatisfied with the policy response here in Washington. And at some level, I can’t blame them.”
10/05/2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpo...og.html?hpid=z2
Excerpts:
These are not the few bedraggled Occupy Wall Street protesters we knew in September.
Representatives from some of the most powerful labor unions in the country have arrived to march alongside the protesters, and students from New York universities joined the demonstrations this afternoon.
...
The reinforcements have added both size and credibility to the movement, which began Sept. 17 with a few dozen camped-out college students, and has voiced opposition against everything from corporate greed and bank foreclosures to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and unemployment
...
The movement has also spread to cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington.
...
Protesters want to “End the Fed”.
[Video of Incredible Speech by Wall Street Protester “End the Fed”]
...
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told the Joint Economic Committee Tuesday that he understands the protesters' frustrations.
“I would just say very generally, I think people are quite unhappy with the state of the economy and what’s happening,” Bernanke said. “They blame, with some justification, the problems in the financial sector for getting us into this mess, and they’re dissatisfied with the policy response here in Washington. And at some level, I can’t blame them.”
Tough job to figger how to blame the whole fuckin thing on Obama, huh counselor?
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