Forum Post: Fighting the 20%, not the 1%
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 14, 2011, 1:30 p.m. EST by angry23
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Occupy Wallstreet, please log on to the following and watch the video. Michael Albert describes, what I believe very accurately describes what you all are attempting to express.
http://www.ket.org/cgi-bin/cheetah/watch_video.pl?nola=KCWRS_000711&altdir=&template=
Originally aired on 11 Nov on KET tv. Michael Albert was Interviewed by Renee Shaw
That was a great video with Michael Albert who is a leading critic of capitalism and advocates that we should replace it with what he calls parecon or participatory economics.
One great point he makes is the fallacy that we are now in a financial crisis. A substantial portion of the population who are in poverty or part of the working poor have been in a financial crisis their entire lives, but the media ignored it.
Now that financial struggle has hit some of the rich and powerful, we are supposedly in a crisis.
When average working people struggle, it is not a crisis. When the rich and powerful struggle, it is a crisis.
Yes a little dry however, only 30 minutes long and was aired on public TV.
Good grief. I'm not watching some lame cable access level show for who knows how long for this point to be made.
I just saw a cool video and now I'm going to copy and paste the link into a new post on OWS. I am so cool, I am so informed. ... Geez!