Friday, September 30, 2011

More are coming

While they were mocked and ignored until Tony Bologna decided to be a minor-league Bull Connor the protests on Wall Street are gathering momentum – here come the veterans:
...as the action nears the start of its third week, unions and community groups are eager to jump on board. They are motivated perhaps by a sense of solidarity and a desire to tap into its growing success, but undoubtedly by something else too—embarrassment that a group of young people using Twitter and Facebook have been able to draw attention to progressive causes in a way they haven't been able to in years.
Well, the right-wing and media mockery will flow now that the unions are getting involved...I guess protests that aren't underwritten by the Koch Brothers -- $11 billion richer the couple years as they laid off thousands, those job creators -- are not very "Murican". Meanwhile, the Greeks, if not their government, know how to do a protest as well.
International experts with the task of compiling a crucial review of Greece's fiscal progress ran into trouble before they could even start the job as public-sector workers protesting against wage cuts, layoffs and higher taxes locked them out of office buildings.
Well, I hope Antonius Bolognius was ready with the pepper spray.

[Cross-posted at Firedoglake]

3 comments:

DrDick said...

First we take Manhattan ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnCR8kSSmqw

pansypoo said...

greece is a land of teabaggers.

Anonymous said...

with October will come
according to some,
large protests disrupting
the halloweeney halls of Congress
demanding change for Health Care
May it be a memorable October not drowned out by mirthless media
shrugging away the calls for Change.
This time change and hope have legs
and leadership
vox