Occupy Economics: Experts Speak in Support of the 99 Percent
One of the key concepts that the Occupy Wall Street movement has brought to the fore by drawing attention to economic inequality in the U.S. is the notion that the "free market" doesn't serve the needs of all citizens equally.One of the key concepts that the Occupy Wall Street movement has brought to the fore by drawing attention to economic inequality in the U.S. is the notion that the “free market” doesn’t serve the needs of all citizens equally.
In fact, as one economist who supports OWS points out in this video clip, our government, like any other, is susceptible to being “captured by wealthy interests,” and the system has been skewed in favor of those interests — right down to how fundamental concepts about the economy are taught. But this group of experts is lending its considerable brainpower to the cause of the 99 percent, a term that another featured smarty-pants calls “wonderfully apt.” Have a look. –KA
“Occupy Economics” via MoveOn.org:
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The wealth gap of this beyond-gilded age is sure to shape a truly messy world ahead.
As writer Ben Judah argues, the Occupy movement, Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders changed this generation's thinking, and made a come-from-behind win like that of New York's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez possible.
We have become a Potemkin society where tokens are put on the stage to represent equality while the vast majority of Americans are economically enslaved.
Knowledge, organized and available to all motivated voters, can win out. Then we can get our country back.
The voting booth is a bust for the kinds of change most Americans want. We must create grass-roots movements that shake the nation to its foundations.
As American activist Joel Kovel wrote six years ago, "The future will be eco-socialist, because without eco-socialism there will be no future."
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