tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post8348097981417612212..comments2023-11-03T03:45:54.322-04:00Comments on Fox Home: Corrente: Ms ExPat: Don't be afraid to say revolution!Foxessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post-66643521088057808872011-09-28T11:50:16.835-04:002011-09-28T11:50:16.835-04:00Here's another analysis along the same lines: ...Here's another analysis along the same lines: Much of the so-called progressive element also believes the only valid protest is SUPPORT FOR A DESIGNATED DEMOCRATIC PARTY CANDIDATE.<br /><br />Check out "Why Establishment Media & the Power Elite Loathe Occupy Wall Street"<br /><br />http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2011/09/27/why-establishment-media-the-power-elite-loathe-occupy-wall-street/<br /><br />[ " The latest show of contempt from a liberal comes from Mother Jones magazine. Lauren Ellis claims that the action, which “says it stands for the 99 percent of us,” lacks traction. She outlines why she thinks Zuccotti Park isn’t America’s Tahrir Square. She chastises them for failing to have one demand. She claims without a unified message police brutality has stolen the spotlight. She suggests the presence of members of Anonymous is holding the organizers back writing, “It’s hard to be taken seriously as accountability-seeking populists when you’re donning Guy Fawkes masks.” And, she concludes as a result of failing to get a cross-section of America to come out in the streets, this movement has been for “dreamers,” not “middle class American trying to make ends meet.”<br /> <br />First off, nobody in the last week can claim to be reporting on Occupy Wall Street and genuinely claim it isn’t gaining traction. Ellis conveniently leaves out the fact that Occupy Wall Street is inspiring other cities to get organized and hold similar assemblies/occupations. Second, if the protesters did have one demand, does Ellis really think that would improve media coverage? Wouldn’t pundits then be casting doubt on whether the one demand was the appropriate singular demand to be making? Third, so-called members of Anonymous are citizens like Ellis and have a right to participate in the protest. It is elitist for Ellis to suggest Occupy Wall Street should not be all-inclusive. And, finally, there is no evidence that just “dreamers” are getting involved. A union at the City University of New York, the Industrial Workers of the World, construction workers, 9/11 responders and now a postal workers and teachers union have shown interest in the occupation. " ]<br /><br />Another is from salon: http://www.salon.com/news/wall_street/index.html?story=/opinion/greenwald/2011/09/28/protests<br /><br />[ "A siginificant aspect of this progressive disdain is grounded in the belief that the only valid form of political activism is support for Democratic Party candidates, and a corresponding desire to undermine anything that distracts from that goal. Indeed, the loyalists of both parties have an interest in marginalizing anything that might serve as a vehicle for activism outside of fealty to one of the two parties (Fox News' firing of Glenn Beck was almost certainly motivated by his frequent deviation from the GOP party-line orthodoxy which Fox exists to foster).<br /><br />The very idea that the one can effectively battle Wall Street's corruption and control by working for the Democratic Party is absurd on its face: Wall Street's favorite candidate in 2008 was Barack Obama, whose administration -- led by a Wall Street White House Chief of Staff and Wall-Street-subservient Treasury Secretary and filled to the brim with Goldman Sachs officials -- is now working hard to protect bankers from meaningful accountability (and though he's behind Wall Street's own Mitt Romney in the Wall Street cash sweepstakes this year, Obama is still doing well); one of Wall Street's most faithful servants is Chuck Schumer, the money man of the Democratic Party; and the second-ranking Senate Democrat acknowledged -- when Democrats controlled the Congress -- that the owners of Congress are bankers. There are individuals who impressively rail against the crony capitalism and corporatism that sustains Wall Street's power, but they're no match for the party apparatus that remains fully owned and controlled by it." ]Foxessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post-84943703719880747792011-09-28T11:00:08.813-04:002011-09-28T11:00:08.813-04:00Also, see this, as primary media scrambles to fina...Also, see this, as primary media scrambles to finally catch up, since they've been ignoring these movements -- until, of course, It Happens HERE!<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/world/as-scorn-for-vote-grows-protests-surge-around-globe.html?_r=1&hp<br /><br />[ "“But that is not actually happening. Corruption is ruling our country.” <br /><br />Increasingly, citizens of all ages, but particularly the young, are rejecting conventional structures like parties and trade unions in favor of a less hierarchical, more participatory system modeled in many ways on the culture of the Web. <br /><br />In that sense, the protest movements in democracies are not altogether unlike those that have rocked authoritarian governments this year, toppling longtime leaders in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. Protesters have created their own political space online that is chilly, sometimes openly hostile, toward traditional institutions of the elite. " ]Foxessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.com