One of the claims by the right-wing media about the Occupy movement is that they’re vague, e.g. they don’t know what they’re fighting for. I find this meme interesting in that it attacks the Occupy movement’s strength — the fact that the issues are so widespread and so palpable that you have to be in that 1% of advantaged folks to miss the point.
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Chris Hedges: “This one could take them all down.”
Yes, the same Chris Hedges that O’Leary called a “left-wing nutjob” as regards Occupy Wall Street.
Interesting — I don’t know too many left wing nutjobs that consider MoveOn.org to be a reprehensible organization.
The 99% flunked econ? Just want to bang bongos?
On the topic of another sort of privilege, Alan Grayson on Occupy Wall Street:
If you don’t know what the movement’s all about, Stephanie Zvan leaves absolutely no room for doubt as to what the participants want. If you click that link and still claim the movement lacks clarity, you probably work for some entity that wants to keep a real grassroots movement from gaining momentum.