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Lance Mannion (who was the first free-range, non-professional blogger I ever encountered on the web) explains why he went to Occupy Wall Street courtesy of his local Teamsters:
… The goal is obvious too. We want to live in a country that isn’t run just for the benefit of bankers, hedge fund managers, and a few sociopathic rich people like the Koch Brothers.
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How to achieve that goal needs to be worked out, but it was very exciting to me when I was watching the final episode of Ken Burns’ Prohibition last night to learn that although the evils wrought by Prohibition and the Volstead Act were well known and popularly regretted for years and that the forces behind it were suspect either as hypocrites or political reactionaries with a mean anti-immigration streak—the Ku Klux Klan were sworn tea-totallers, so there you have both hypocrisy and reactionarysim—a movement to repeal the 18th Amendment made no progress until a determined rich Republican named Pauline Sabin got fed up with the hypocrisies and the meanness and set to work mainly getting people to show up to voice their support for repeal.
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There was a lot more to what she did than that, but that’s where it started, with people showing up to remind politicians, the Drys, and each other that there are more of us than there are of them…
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If you can’t show up but would like to show your support, MoveOn has site where you can sign up to take part in a Virtual March on Wall Street.
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That’s all well and good, but an even better way of showing up if you can’t show up is to write letters—to your local newspaper, to your Congresscritters, to your state legislators and governor, and to friends and family…
Commentor Raenelle‘s daughter is providing excellent coverage at her Plutocracy Files blog.
Commentor Cassidy was going to the Occupy Jacksonville meetup this weekend, and I hope he’ll report back.
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