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nenagh

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11. Flobee1, unless I speak up you and many other OWS's will never know what a great debt of gratitude..
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 04:53 AM
Feb 2012

I feel towards those who had the foresight, the strength of vision and commitment and the physical strength to 'Occupy Wall Street."

To my mind, you crystallized the concept of the 99%/1%... as none of the Don Draper, Mad Men, ever accomplished..though perhaps they were paid to look in a different direction (with no insult meant to marketing people, after all, as a single mom, being able to provide for a family is also extremely important)

But the 1% have an economic stranglehold on the media.

So my barometer is different...aside from not wanting to risk injury to anyone, I would never want to give Wolff Blitzer the satisfaction of having anything negative to report about OWS...

Again, I do not have the strength to join OWS... But my thanks and appreciation is enduring...





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By your definition customerserviceguy Feb 2012 #1
Bullshit cbrer Feb 2012 #7
My point is customerserviceguy Feb 2012 #12
I agree cbrer Feb 2012 #16
burning and smashing flobee1 Feb 2012 #2
All activities on your list is a violent response except rosesaylavee Feb 2012 #3
MLK zipplewrath Feb 2012 #4
It is about civil disobedience zeemike Feb 2012 #5
destruction of property is violence. attacking, even in self defense is violence. Warren Stupidity Feb 2012 #6
You always take that position. DocMac Feb 2012 #8
Ok Warren Stupidity Feb 2012 #13
Maybe i'm mistaken. DocMac Feb 2012 #19
Post removed Post removed Feb 2012 #20
I am very sympathetic to ideals of Satyagraha nonviolence Leopolds Ghost Feb 2012 #15
if your heart is sincere unionworks Feb 2012 #9
violent offenses include rape and assault. limpyhobbler Feb 2012 #10
Flobee1, unless I speak up you and many other OWS's will never know what a great debt of gratitude.. nenagh Feb 2012 #11
Are we talking about graffiti artwork, or tagging slogans in public places? Leopolds Ghost Feb 2012 #14
the question should be, are these acts strategically net positive nashville_brook Feb 2012 #17
Rebecca Solnit wrote a great piece on this question in the book, "Occupy: Scenes from an Occupied rhett o rick Feb 2012 #18
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