The Protest Wave: Why the Political Class Can’t Understand Our Demands

https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/03-6

The protests that began in Wisconsin this year, and which now also fill the streets of Manhattan, Boston, Chicago, and this week, Washington D.C., have gotten the attention of the American political class. And how could they not? 2011 is becoming a remake of the 1999 Battle of Seattle, except this time the protests are ongoing, national and global, and the target is not just the World Trade Organization, but the entire edifice of corporate capitalism.

https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/03-6

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