By Don Hazen and Colin Greer, AlterNet
Posted on October 3, 2011, Printed on October 4, 2011
At this moment, there are growing protests on Wall Street in
Manhattan, in Boston at the Bank of America, and in cities around the
country. These embryonic and creative efforts are targeting the greed of
the banks, the collusion of the corporate class with their corrupt
elected officials, the high level of unemployment, the huge burden of
student loans in a time of diminished opportunities, the increasing
numbers of poor and hungry people, and much more. These protests, along
with those earlier in Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio, are signs of revival
of a long tradition of popular revolt against excesses of wealth and
the corporate class.
The new protests come after a long dark period -- specifically the
last 11 years of George W. Bush and Barack Obama -- during which
time conservatives have gained more power and ability to control the
national debate than they have in the past 75 years. The current
right-wing power presence, spiked by the corporate media's obsession
with Tea Party protests, came most immediately as a result of the Great
Recession caused by the housing bubble and obscene corruption of the
banks. This crisis was exacerbated by large-scale anger about the
subsequent bank bailout, and corporate-backed attacks on the health care
reform package passed by Congress. But that is just part of the latest
political news.
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