Square Deal (re OWS)

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Favorable editorial at the Anchorage Daily News: http://www.adn.com/2011/10/06/2108357/square-deal.html The Anchorage media have been surprisingly supportive.

Brian MacMillan, one of the organizers of the "Occupy Anchorage" demonstration Wednesday at Town Square, gave a telling video interview at adn.com. In describing the purpose of the Anchorage answer to the ongoing Wall Street demonstrations he said he wanted to begin a search for solutions.

Put people before corporations. How, exactly? He wasn't sure; he didn't claim to have answers.

So he was honest. And that put him in a tough spot. It's easy to dismiss a catch-all demonstration, one without clear demands.

But if these are few rebels scattered among many causes, they still tap a sense of something fundamental gone awry in the U.S. It's the sense that we no longer have a common understanding of what constitutes a fair and just society.

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It isn't good enough for corporations to live only by the bottom line and their shareholders' dividends. If that's gospel to some, it isn't God's. There's a reason Christ drove the moneychangers out of the temple.

And it isn't good enough to rail against the rich, either.

There are solutions. MacMillan and the rest of us need to keep looking. With goodwill.

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Thanks for this information. Glad that Anchorage has editorials that reflect people, and not the corporations.