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Zorra

(27,670 posts)
Sat Jan 18, 2014, 03:05 PM Jan 2014

Business Insider, Jan. 16, 2014: How Occupy Wall Street Won In One Chart

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How Occupy Wall Street Won In One Chart

Agree or disagree with the aims and means of Occupy Wall Street, but the movement changed the way we think about our world forever.

For proof, look no further than the upcoming World Economic Forum in Davos. Each year, the organization puts out a report indicating what it believes are the world's biggest risks.

For the past three years, income inequality has been the #1 global risk.

But prior to 2012, inequality wasn't even on the list. Those protests in 2011 clearly had a profound on global thinking, right up tot he elite level.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-occupy-wall-street-won-in-one-chart-2014-1#ixzz2qmIhbicp


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Business Insider, Jan. 16, 2014: How Occupy Wall Street Won In One Chart (Original Post) Zorra Jan 2014 OP
The brutal treatment Occupy received Downwinder Jan 2014 #1
The Establishment is scared of OWS, they tried everything possible to tear it down. Rex Jan 2014 #2
 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
2. The Establishment is scared of OWS, they tried everything possible to tear it down.
Sat Jan 18, 2014, 04:49 PM
Jan 2014

Their agents tried to diminish the movement and still do to this day by lying that it was ineffective and didn't change anything. Of course we all know who they are now and what their agenda is.

OWS came along at the right time and in the right place to change world policy.

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