A Global Day of Action, in solidarity with Occupy Wall St. has been called for tomorrow, October 15. According to a current tally, demonstrations will be held in 950+ US cities and 80+ countries, the latter including Mexico City. Who knows what will unfold in Oaxaca, where occupations, marches, and road blocks are an almost daily event.
Confession: This is personal… I’m one of the 99% and lost my job as a result of the economic collapse brought about by the voracious, unconscionable, and unbridled greed of US capitalism. Heck, even in my old ‘hood, more than 200 ‘Occupy Marin’ protesters demonstrated in front of Bank of America a few days ago. It’s one of the few times, I wish I was still in El Norte, so I could participate.
BTW, the poster art and slogans coming out of this movement are awesome! Take a look at the following sites:
- http://www.gstrike.org
- http://15october.net/spread-it/#posters
- http://www.buzzfeed.com/fjelstud/the-best-signs-from-occupy-wall-street
If you don’t hear us, can you see us???
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Let us hope this “Global Spring” will yield fruits. It is not that ideologies, such as communism and democracy are faulty, it is human beings implementing them, though abject greed that creates so much social injustices.
excuse the typo, should be :Through abject greed, not though..
Hi..I was in NYC the first week of OWS and marched when all the arrests were made…about 100. I am Oaxaca now. Is there anything happening regarding OWS?
I hope you are enjoying Oaxaca; so much to see and do at this time of year! As for OWS… I haven’t heard of anything. You should scroll through Oaxaca Study Action Group postings if anybody would know, one of their regular contributors would.