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99% and Arab Spring

These two movements of resistance to injustince prhaps evidences the possibility of REVOLUTIONARY NONVIOLENCE in our time, and maybe the efficaciousness of nonviolent progressive radicalism.

Once there werr revolutionaries who thought Kingian or Gandhian nonviolence as passe. Could it be that Dr. King was AHEAD of his time? Black Marxist philosopher, historian and homme de lettres, CLR James, once described nonviolenct resistance as the technique of revolutionary struggle in our generation....But he was writing in the 1950s and reflecting on Nkrumah's "positive action" in Ghana, and King's nonviolent Bus Boycott in Montgomery.
Perhaps CLR was premature, but ahead of his time.
Nonviolent revolution in OUR time? Go for it!


-Savant

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Excellent post, brother!

As winter approaches, the 99%ers have effectively shifted the terms of the debate. Income inequality is now front and center on the USA's political stage.

-Harrisson

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The class struggle continues most poor cannot or will not take part
in ows for different reasons,which is understandable.But I do not understand why anyone would be opposed to the movement.Of course
the rich and wealthy will be opposed but all other people regardless of race or political views are being screwed by corporations and big business.Some people even put the blame on the poor saying they're responsible but the amount spent on social programs dwarfs in comparison to the amount spent on military (over 50 percent).A lot of people , especially the ones that post on topix are completely uniformed or their judgement is clouded by racism or are at the top of the social economic ladder and cannot sympathize or even understand people who are struggling.

-iamcuriousnow

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In the last page of my thread "PBT: Middle-class Black Folks & Poor White Folks," you will see a post about the Fallon family.

They are Caucasian-Americans and they are busted. Completely broke. Been out of work for two years. The parents used to make $100,000 between the two of them.

Here is what the Mom, Kris Fallon, says today while she is lining up for free food at the pantry:

"I never understood why there were so many food pantries and why people couldn't just get on their feet and get going, but now that I'm in it, I fully understand," she said. "I sometimes feel like I am a loser ... I have never been unemployed and I never thought I would be going through this, ever."

http://www.pbase.com/harrisonphoto/image/1392...

I believe this mentality is a part of how so many people manage to be opposed to Occupy Wall Street, Iamcuriousnow. Aside from being grossly uninformed, they also LACK HUMILITY and they LACK COMPASSION. They convince themselves that because they work hard and make $50,000 or $60,000 a year, that they are somehow special and that others are lazy.

Only until a personal crisis lays them low, do they get off their high horse. It's shameful that folks can have such distorted attitudes about success in America.

-Harrisson