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AS THE BIG BANKS POST RECORD PROFITS AND PAY OUT OBSCENE BONUSES, WHAT SHOULD WE THE PEOPLE DO: STAND UP OR ROLL OVER?
By Danny Schechter (about the author)
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You get where I am going? I am not sure where Fred Douglass
banked, back in the days when companies like Lehman Brothers,
before its fall, were financing the slave trade, but his mantra
that without struggle, nothing changes still survives.
Nothing will change without making them uncomfortable. Anger, if not "deployed" like an unguided missle, has its uses.
The Banksters are terrified of what they call "economic populism."
I prefer to call it economic democracy. Even Barack Obama
understood that years ago when he worked as a community organizer.
I am not sure if he still does.
No one's going to win a Nobel Prize in Economic Fairness for this
type of non-violent activity but it will bring this issue out of the back pages of the business section where it is safely buried
and into the front lobes of people's minds.
Where are the activists blocking foreclosures or rallying at unemployment offices for extended benefits. Where is the push back against the health insurers? Why are you asleep?
It's so simple. The Greensboro 4 understood it decades ago. If you don't stand up, you might as well lay down.
Become a Fan (46 fans) -- Page 3 of 3 page(s)
banked, back in the days when companies like Lehman Brothers,
before its fall, were financing the slave trade, but his mantra
that without struggle, nothing changes still survives.
Nothing will change without making them uncomfortable. Anger, if not "deployed" like an unguided missle, has its uses.
The Banksters are terrified of what they call "economic populism."
I prefer to call it economic democracy. Even Barack Obama
understood that years ago when he worked as a community organizer.
I am not sure if he still does.
No one's going to win a Nobel Prize in Economic Fairness for this
type of non-violent activity but it will bring this issue out of the back pages of the business section where it is safely buried
and into the front lobes of people's minds.
Where are the activists blocking foreclosures or rallying at unemployment offices for extended benefits. Where is the push back against the health insurers? Why are you asleep?
It's so simple. The Greensboro 4 understood it decades ago. If you don't stand up, you might as well lay down.
News Dissector Danny Schechter is blogger in chief at Mediachannel.Org He is the author of PLUNDER: Investigating Our Economic Calamity (Cosimo Books) available at Amazon.com.
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WHAT SHOULD WE THE PEOPLE DO: STAND UP OR ROLL OVER?
by Tom Johnson on Saturday, Oct 17, 2009 at 9:22:57 PM
OK, that's your Plan "A".......
by Ernest on Sunday, Oct 18, 2009 at 12:17:57 AM
We Should WHACK the PINATE' as HARD as WE CAN!
by boomerang on Sunday, Oct 18, 2009 at 12:44:01 AM
The banks got too big.
by sommers on Sunday, Oct 18, 2009 at 6:48:22 AM
It will not be an easy fix
by virginius "gin" arnold on Sunday, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:07:17 AM
I got that e-mail too, and repied to all with this:
by John Sanchez Jr. on Sunday, Oct 18, 2009 at 5:17:45 PM
Depends on the bank/firm in question
by Steven Leser on Sunday, Oct 18, 2009 at 11:08:19 AM
Well maybe you think it's OK.........
by Ernest on Tuesday, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:35:09 AM
A different P.O.V.
by Scott Baker on Sunday, Oct 18, 2009 at 1:25:44 PM
Too Big To Fail? or Too Big to STOP!
by Edward Ulysses Cate on Sunday, Oct 18, 2009 at 1:33:05 PM
One Bank
by Hoss Hoss on Sunday, Oct 18, 2009 at 4:04:11 PM
Our financial pandemic
by Dave Kisor on Sunday, Oct 18, 2009 at 6:09:04 PM
Higher taxes on Rich now!
by Erik Jones on Sunday, Oct 18, 2009 at 7:05:58 PM
I agree!
by Bryan Emmel on Monday, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:44:54 AM
The usual suspects
by Perry Logan on Monday, Oct 19, 2009 at 6:15:10 AM
Ralph Nader, Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us. . . .
by slowbeer on Monday, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:36:52 AM
Bla Bla Bla
by arlen custer on Monday, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:01:10 AM
what we the people should do....
by Sharon Jarvis on Wednesday, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:02:10 AM