“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” Abraham Lincoln
The banks lost us untold amounts of money. It is estimated that every family in the UK lost around £35,000 each. America alone lost nearly $8 trillion in household wealth.
This little film shows Tuesday's simulcast between the London and New York OCCUPY communities. I flew out to the encampment at St. Paul's Cathedral, and we sang the 99% song together, across the Atlantic - what a wonderful moment! That made the whole London visit worth it - when Londoners held up a sheet to show the Stop Shopping Choir from Wall Street.
Join critically acclaimed author, KtB editor, and OccupyWriters.com founder Jeff Sharlet and the unstoppable evangelists of anti-consumerism Reverend Billy and Savitri D for a discussion about religion and politics in the Occupy movement and beyond.(more)
I have been listening to the FRONTLINE report (Oct 26) about how the recession is
affecting upper income folks. While at first glance.. it may not seem a
sympathetic story.. actually.. it is.
There was one person who I related to. Her and her husband owned a busines
yet after the recession they have had to go to her 65 year old mother
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
