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Tag: Abbie Hoffman

AP / Eric Gay

Occupiers Have to Convince the Other 99 Percent

By Chris Hedges —

The occupation movement’s greatest challenge will be overcoming the deep distrust of white liberals by the poor and the working class, especially people of color.

Posted on Oct 24, 2011 READ MORE | 217 COMMENTS

Mr. Fish

Hoffman famously said, “You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.” This was in 1989, when he was just 52, the same year that he killed himself, making everyone wonder if freedom wasn’t really just another word for nothing left to lose.