This one comes from one of my all-time favorite comic scribe's, the great Ms Ann Nocenti, whose socially-conscious works were among my favorite reads as a kid in the 80s. Rather than trade lame insults with Miller, she provides a well-said defense of OWS:
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I had the opportunity to ask Ann Nocenti about Occupy Wall Street and the comments made by Frank Miller(
http://tinyurl.com/cqb83jh). A significant player in the comics industry in the 1980s and into the 1990s, editing the Uncanny X-Men and writing Longshot and Daredevil, amongst other projects, Nocenti spent her downtime from the industry over the past decade working in decidedly more political realms, including doing work for MoveOn.org and for The Nation, so she was already well aware of the protest and its messages before Miller’s derogatory comments. She most definitely takes umbrage with his characterizations that, “‘Occupy’ is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness,” and that Occupiers are “iPad wielding spoiled brats.” She told Bleeding Cool;
Many people have trouble understanding the Occupy movement, because it is something quite new. It’s decentralized. It’s not a “protest” movement; it is amorphous, like the Internet. It is, in some ways, a lifestyle. It is supported by Union workers, sympathetic cops, the elderly, the rich, the poor, the right, the left… and, increasingly, by the “1%” themselves. It crosses all lines of class, gender, race and politics. Of course right wing radio is full of the “spoiled brat, louts and mobs” etc. descriptions of Occupy, because people fear what they don’t understand.
Occupy is a seismic shift away from being hoodwinked and towards taking control of life. That something is wrong with this country is undeniable. That students graduate from colleges with law degrees and huge debt yet can’t get a job is just wrong. That good healthcare can only be bought by the rich is just wrong. That we pour money into wars we can’t “win” is just wrong. I spent time in al-Qaeda country. American dollars fuel everything; American dollars end up funding Taliban training cantonments. Winston Churchill said long ago that, “Western eyes will never understand the ways of tribal culture.” “The War on Drugs,” the last pointless “war” that further bankrupted our country, was recently declared an unqualified failure.
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More:
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/11/14/ann-nocenti-responds-to-frank-miller-on-occupy-wall-street/
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