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Let’s Hear It For The 99-Percenters

October 13, 2011 by Kenneth

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dantilson

(Cross-Posted at Dan Tilson’s Examiner.com page)

An interesting irony in the rapid growth of the “Occupy” & “We Are The 99%” movements nationwide, is that an awful lot of struggling folks are already part and parcel of these movements, whether they know it or like it or not.

To use a fancy phrase, these folks may be suffering from cognitive dissonance. In my online dictionary, here’s the definition: n. a state of psychological conflict or anxiety resulting from a contradiction between a person’s simultaneously held beliefs or attitudes…

So, we have in our nation millions of mostly middle-aged and older people who’ve lost their jobs, health insurance, pensions, savings, and homes, thanks to a corporate-dominated economic agenda, electoral system and government.

Dollars, sense and the new American Resistance

October 5, 2011 by Kenneth

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dantilson

(Cross-posted at Saint Petersblog & Daily Kos)

 

“There’s something happening here

What it is ain’t exactly clear…”

Steven Stills wrote those opening lines of Buffalo Springfield’s classic protest song, “”, in 1966. It wasn’t just the Vietnam War tearing America apart at the time. It was the struggle for Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, and some measure of socioeconomic stability for America’s millions of poor, elderly and disabled citizens.

It’s no accident that the social unrest and political activism marking those years was accompanied by historic enactment of the Civil Rights Act, Medicare and Medicaid, by a Democratic Congress and President, Lyndon Baines Johnson, who even declared ”War On Poverty” in 1964.

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