Long overdue, but who will join me? Thank you, OWS protesters!

[senseandsensibility]

You did it. You're now the lead story on the NBC nightly news. You've changed the political discourse. And you did it without corporate backing.

I am grateful. What you did was not obvious or easy. You perservered through the early days when the corporate media pretended not to understand. You risked your freedom and your comfort for us.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:toast:

[Initech]

1. This is an excellent start!

[FarLeftFist]

2. Amazing to see this movement gone global. People are being awoken.

[senseandsensibility]

5. The global aspect is very encouraging.

But so is the fact that independents' eyes are being opened in this country, and non political people are starting to get it.

[lunatica]

3. I love you OWS!

I created my Avatar inspired by you!

[chill_wind]

4. K & R.

Great respect and gratitude here.

[Blaze Diem]

6. Thank You from a 60's anti-establishment protester

You make me Proud to be a American

[Riley18]

7. Thank you OWS! What you are doing has given me hope.

[abelenkpe]

8. K & R & thank you OWS nt

[barbtries]

9. thank you OWS

[Bjorn Against]

10. Occupy Wallstreet abosolutely should be praised, but lets not forget all the other occupations

There are occupations all across the country and they all deserve thanks and praise as well.

[Fire Walk With Me]

11. K&R!

[donheld]

12. With my entire being I thank them

[malaise]

13. Spot on!

I'm lovin' it!

Rec

[AikidoSoul]

14. Thanks to everyone throughout the country and the world

who are out on the streets protesting.

I wish I could join you physically, instead of just spiritually. :loveya:

[Fumesucker]

15. K&R

[RainDog]

16. THANK YOU!

:grouphug:

[greytdemocrat]

17. Actually...

They haven't changed a thing. Delusions of Grandeur are nice but they are still delusions.

I was going to go to a local protest here in Sarasota today but I changed
my mind.

[Wind Dancer]

18. Oh brother!

:eyes:

[RainDog]

23. slate magazine doesn't agree with you - this nationally renowned magazine says they already won

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_best_policy/2011/10/occupy_wall_street_s_victory_it_has_shaken_up_american_politics_.html

Occupy Wall Street has already won, perhaps not the victory most of its participants want, but a momentous victory nonetheless. It has already altered our political debate, changed the agenda, shifted the discussion in newspapers, on cable TV, and even around the water cooler. And that is wonderful.

Suddenly, the issues of equity, fairness, justice, income distribution, and accountability for the economic cataclysm–issues all but ignored for a generation—are front and center. We have moved beyond the one-dimensional conversation about how much and where to cut the deficit. Questions more central to the social fabric of our nation have returned to the heart of the political debate. By forcing this new discussion, OWS has made most of the other participants in our politics—who either didn’t want to have this conversation or weren’t able to make it happen—look pretty small.
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Surely, you might say, other factors have contributed: A convergence of horrifying economic data has crystallized the public’s underlying anxiety. Data show that median family income declined by 6.7 percent over the past two years, the unemployment rate is stuck at 9.1 percent in the October report (16.5 percent if you look at the more meaningful U6 number), and 46.2 million Americans are living in poverty—the most in more than 50 years. Certainly, those data help make Occupy Wall Street’s case.

But until these protests, no political figure or movement had made Americans pay attention to these facts in a meaningful way. Indeed, over the long hot summer, as poverty rose and unemployment stagnated, the entire discussion was about cutting our deficit.


I'm heading out to my local protest because I think you're ENTIRELY wrong.

[greytdemocrat]

25. I hope you have a good time!

I don't think these protests hurt as they make
people feel good.

[RandiFan1290]

19. But they started on a Saturday!

:rofl:

[senseandsensibility]

22. D'oh! I forgot about that.

Never mind. Forget this whole thread, then. They obviously don't dererve it if they started on a SATURDAY.:)

[Laelth]

20. Yes. Thank you. k&r n/t

-Laelth

[Whisp]

21. family and I are going today for first OWS in our part of the world.

middle Canada.

:toast:

[Starry Messenger]

24. k&r