If ever there was a time for outrage, this is it – NYTimes.com
October 12, 2011 Leave a comment
News flash: The New York Times is listening, and getting it. Proof that we still have some populist media left that actually can have their own opinions about what’s going on – opinions that aren’t formed by the status quo or the “you decide” bullshit. Mark Bittman sees the connections to revolutionaries in other countries:
Those scenarios are spreading because, as Naomi Klein wrote in The Guardian last week, “[E]veryone can see that the system is deeply unjust and careening out of control.” The struggle for positive change is being defined by groups as diverse as the revolutionaries in Tunisia and Egypt, the strikers in Greece (“Erase the debt and let the rich pay”), the indignados in Spain, the misled but occasionally well-intentioned members of the Tea Party, and certainly those occupying Wall Street (and, in case you missed it, some 1,500 other places, and growing, as of this writing). Now it’s even being embraced by the Democratic leadership.
Read the rest here: Welcome Activism On Wall Street – NYTimes.com.