Submitted to Shelton Blog by Tom Davis Mason County Progressive
Citizens are standing together against economic inequality.
We are in the midst of a social revolution aimed at policies that enable a minority of citizens to control the economic futures of the majority. It has become increasingly evident that government on all levels now views the needs of the majority as subordinate to the greed of the minority.
What started out as a small east coast movement has struck a chord with the vast majority of Americans. But the fact remains, civil demonstrations tend to frighten victims of injustice more than their persecutors. The reason for this is people have been led to believe civil disobedience of any stripe is Un-American. This reaction is not hard-wired into the human psyche, but instilled through generations of social conformity.
In the past, protests aimed at economic inequality were ignored by those who would maintain the status quo, but those days may be coming to an end. The question now is when such protests will manifest into political action.
There was a time when young men and women marched to a more civic-minded drummer, gravitating toward careers of social responsibility, such as teachers, social workers and ecologists. Unfortunately, the new trend for our best and brightest is to march directly from the halls of higher learning to the dungeons of Wall Street, or worse, to multi-national businesses who exploit workers on a global scale.
Moreover, some of these same people go on to become heads of industry with political aspirations, though they maintain personal standards better suited to groping people than to grappling with national issues. How our country has sunk to anti-social levels as gleaned in some candidates for national office is no mystery. Such economic de-evolution is not a new phenomenon, but the result of decades of unheeded warnings by humanitarians.
Americans have a history of putting our differences aside when confronted by a common enemy. And it is with no small acknowledgment we must now recognize the current enemy comes not from some distant shore.
Please join hands with family, friends and neighbors in support of economic equality aimed at jobs with futures and futures with hope.
This Monday, November 28th at 11:00 AM, we gather at Sylvester Park, in Olympia (Capitol Way and Legion Way, across from the Governor’s Inn) to let legislators know that cutting services to 99% of Americans while cutting taxes to the wealthiest 1% will no longer be tolerated.
Photo by Christine Armond
SHELTON BLOG NOTE:
OCCUPY THE CAPITOL
on
Monday, November 28th
at
11:00 AM
at
Sylvester Park
Olympia, WA
Link to Occupy Olympia website for more information:
http://occupyolympia.org/nov-28th-action-week/
Thank you Tom.
ReplyDeleteIt is stunning how up has become down, continuous war has become the law of our land, $13 trillion taxpayer dollars for banks and nothing for children or the elderly, citizens are getting arrested for trying to close their bank accounts, and a disgusting groper aspires to be president while his obscene behavior is being defended by Rupert Murdoch's talking heads.
It's backward world.
It is going to take the 99% working together to turn it around!
Saturday, December 3: Massive Rally!
ReplyDeleteMeet at the Capitol at 11:00 am. Join community organizations and people from all across Washington state to demand that legislators oppose more cuts, tax the rich, and call on the federal government to end U.S. wars and redirect trillions in military spending to state budgets! Coordinated by FUSE.