The fight against climate change is down to us – the 99%

[CHIMO]

If there is one thing I know, it's that the 1% loves a crisis. When people are panicked and desperate, that is the ideal time to push through their wishlist of pro-corporate policies: privatising education and social security, slashing public services, getting rid of the last constraints on corporate power. Amidst the economic crisis, this is happening the world over.

There is only one thing that can block this tactic, and fortunately, it's a very big thing: the 99%. And that 99% is taking to the streets from Madison to Madrid to say: "No. We will not pay for your crisis."

That slogan began in Italy in 2008. It ricocheted to Greece and France and Ireland and finally it has made its way to the square mile where the crisis began.

Many people have drawn parallels between Occupy Wall Street and the so-called anti-globalisation protests that came to world attention in Seattle in 1999. That was the last time a global, youth-led, decentralised movement took direct aim at corporate power. And I am proud to have been part of what we called "the movement of movements".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/07/fight-climate-change-99

[Uncle Joe]

1. I don't know why but for some reason this pic reminds me

of the Marines raising the flag on Mt, Surabachi in Iwo Jima.:)




Thanks for the thread, CHIMO.:thumbsup: