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"We can do this together. We will be the beginning."
Many there pledged they won't leave until their demands are met. They're sick and tired of being sick and tired and want change.
Spreading US Protests
At the same time, Occupy Wall protests spread in weeks to nearly 1,000 cities and towns nationwide. They're the first national uprising in decades. Nothing like them has been seen since earlier civil rights and anti-Vietnam war activism.
Global justice demonstrations since Seattle 1999 lasted several days then ebbed. Today's rage against the system shows promise provided spirited energy doesn't wane, leaders emerge to sustain it, and focus concentrates on what matters most - money power in private hands to make more of it at the public's expense.
Wall Street controlled money can't co-exist with democracy and social justice. It bribes political Washington to get what it wants. It buys members of America's duopoly like toothpaste.
Americans have the best democracy money can buy. Addressing Freedom Plaza activists on October 8, Ralph Nader said:
"It is time for citizens to push their elected officials to break the corporate stranglehold on our country."
"Congress has done more to bail out Wall Street than Main Street." Infinitely more, in fact, with sustained trillions of dollars of handouts. At least, $16.1 trillion but very likely much more unreported.
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