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Saturday, October 22, 2011

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By Tierra Negra, Courier Correspondent

Do you support the nationwide occupy movement?

Such was the question on the Bay Area News Group paper this weekend inviting to express in a letter the reasoning behind a yes or a no for an answer.

Are there any other alternatives that would force the change needed to address current issues in a fair way? Everything has been permeated by corporations’ greed leaving hardly anything that can be done by (once considered) a middle class majority.

While the “educated” ones do not seem to be producing any clear benefit to society, they do create financial bubbles, increase the health costs and look with “contempt” to the lower classes that are the ones growing, harvesting, contributing and serving them altogether. However, in order to maintain the status quo they must design laws that would prevent taking care of the problems because that would mean giving up their power, royalties and benefits.







John Silas "Jack" Reed (Portland, Oregon, October 22, 1887 – Moscow, October 17, 1920) was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist, best remembered for his first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution, Ten Days that Shook the World. He was married to writer and feminist Louise Bryant.


Read Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed, free from Project Gutenberg.