The Occupation
2011Mumia Abu-Jamal 2011-11Read it in the scan (PDF at ETOL), page 12 →
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I erty Square” by the demonstrators), the cast of n Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park (renamed “Lib thousands swell in rebellion against the betrayals by the banks, Wall Street’s relentless greed, the plague of joblessness and the craven servility of the politi cal class—both Republicans and Democrats—to their moneyed masters.
In short, the central focus of their protest is capital ism—greed writ large, especially since the economic tumble of Fall 2008.
Begun mostly by unemployed youth, it has drawn the presence and support of public workers, urban youth, students, teachers, and a considerable number of gray hairs. That’s because social discontent is so wide spread that it is spreading like wildfire: Wall Street, and then, days later, Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, 12 SOCIALIST ACTION NOVEMBER 2011