Rev. Jesse Jackson: Winning The Class War And Occupy Wall Street

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October 11, 2011

By Rev. Jesse Jackson

Occupy Wall Street protests have now spread to some 800 cities. It’s spreading like a fire on a strong wind over a dry field. The heat is likely to keep on building ...

Students graduate with average student loan debts of over $20,000, and the bankers lobby passes a law that forces payment of those debts, even after bankruptcy. Now students are graduating from college laden with debts and without a job. Any wonder they are protesting.

I spoke with professors and teachers who have lost their jobs, as state’s face declining revenues – driven in part by the foreclosure/housing crisis and resulting loss of property tax revenues.

These protests pose a clear indictment to an economy that has been working for the few and not the many. The richest 1% of Americans now makes as much income as the bottom 60%. They control as much wealth as the bottom 90%. With that wealth comes political power, as they can afford the campaign contributions and the high priced lobbyists needed to rig the rules in Washington. They have had their way ...

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