georgephillip
Diamond Member
Occupy Wall Street, like all radical movements, will not make concessions with corrupt systems of corporate power. This is why corrupt Democratic politicians from Obama to Pelosi know their foundations of power are shaking.
Martin Luther King saw it 43 years ago:
"King too was a radical. He would not compromise on nonviolence, racism or justice. He understood that movementssuch as the Liberty Party, which fought slavery, the suffragists, who fought for womens rights, the labor movement and the civil rights movementhave always been the true correctives in American democracy...
"'For years, I labored with the idea of reforming the existing institutions in the South, a little change here, a little change there,' King said shortly before he was assassinated. 'Now I feel quite differently. I think youve got to have a reconstruction of the entire system, a revolution of values.'
Were he still alive, King would echo the questions Chris Hedges raises in his recent post:
"What kind of nation is it that spends far more to kill enemy combatants and Afghan and Iraqi civilians than it does to help its own citizens who live below the poverty line?
"What kind of nation is it that permits corporations to hold sick children hostage while their parents frantically bankrupt themselves to save their sons and daughters?
"What kind of nation is it that tosses its mentally ill onto urban heating grates?
"What kind of nation is it that abandons its unemployed while it loots its treasury on behalf of speculators? What kind of nation is it that ignores due process to torture and assassinate its own citizens?
A nation where Wall Street owns a controlling interest in both major political parties.
FLUSH Democrats AND Republicans from DC in November 2012!
A Movement Too Big to Fail | Common Dreams
Martin Luther King saw it 43 years ago:
"King too was a radical. He would not compromise on nonviolence, racism or justice. He understood that movementssuch as the Liberty Party, which fought slavery, the suffragists, who fought for womens rights, the labor movement and the civil rights movementhave always been the true correctives in American democracy...
"'For years, I labored with the idea of reforming the existing institutions in the South, a little change here, a little change there,' King said shortly before he was assassinated. 'Now I feel quite differently. I think youve got to have a reconstruction of the entire system, a revolution of values.'
Were he still alive, King would echo the questions Chris Hedges raises in his recent post:
"What kind of nation is it that spends far more to kill enemy combatants and Afghan and Iraqi civilians than it does to help its own citizens who live below the poverty line?
"What kind of nation is it that permits corporations to hold sick children hostage while their parents frantically bankrupt themselves to save their sons and daughters?
"What kind of nation is it that tosses its mentally ill onto urban heating grates?
"What kind of nation is it that abandons its unemployed while it loots its treasury on behalf of speculators? What kind of nation is it that ignores due process to torture and assassinate its own citizens?
A nation where Wall Street owns a controlling interest in both major political parties.
FLUSH Democrats AND Republicans from DC in November 2012!
A Movement Too Big to Fail | Common Dreams