Tag Archive for We are the 99%

Occupy Phoenix: As Long as it Takes

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I now realize that it is the most powerless, the most voiceless of our population who have the biggest stake in this movement. They are the ones who’ve lost the most; their homes, livelihoods and their families. And they must battle daily to maintain their self respect. It is only fitting and extremely satisfying that they are the ones who have stepped forward and are assuming these roles in our own little corner of the occupy movement.

Occupy Wall Street: Tea Parties For Smart People

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A surge of re-energized American citizens positioned in cities across the country are carrying out the grassroots ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement (or the ’99 Percent Movement’) with an intelligent and provoking agenda that invokes real patriotic citizenship – much unlike the backwards Tea Party protests that have done little more than pervert our founding ideals while hidden under the guise of Americanism.

The Right-Wing Continues Class Warfare With Pathetic Website

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The Republicans are proud. I get that. They are hard workers. I get that. They don’t think of themselves as victims. I get that. I get all of that because I am exactly like them, with one exception. I understand that our system is broken. I understand that money has corrupted the political process. I understand that Wall Street controls our economy.

Occupy Wall Street, Occupy The Inevitable

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America is supposed to be the land of opportunity, and it is, but where the bulk of those opportunities go and who they have traditionally gone to in the past is not as much about the home of the free and the land of the brave as one might be inclined to patriotically believe.