Just in case you thought they were all hippies…
NYTimes: Wall St. Protest Attracts Many New to This Sort of Thing http://nyti.ms/nf49YR
“I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined with the best books, somewhere to live when the rest of the world blew up.”
Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
You say you want a what?
Daniel Berger, a guest on Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night, in an op-ed piece for the Huffington Post from Nov. 2010 - a year ago:
“Yet where is progressive populism now? Why haven’t masses of workers; members of the middle class who are unemployed, underemployed and underpaid; and their allies staged mass rallies to protest the behavior of Wall Street? Where are protests against the business sector for overdoing layoffs, or at least against the Tea Party, the intellectual and political successors of the Ku Klux Klan?”
More after the jump.
I am the 99 percent.
“College debt shows up a lot in these stories, actually. It’s more insistently present than housing debt, or even unemployment. That might speak to the fact that the protests tilt towards the young. But it also speaks, I think, to the fact that college debt represents a special sort of betrayal. We told you that the way to get ahead in America was to get educated. You did it. And now you find yourself in the same place, but buried under debt. You were lied to.”
More after the jump.
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