[Occupymendocino] Aftermath of Occupy Will Surpass the Sixties ( also posted on OM Facebook site).

[Richard Karch]

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10125-the-aftermath-of-occupy-will-surpass-the-sixties




Tuesday, 03 July 2012 09:38	 By Bill Zimmerman, Truthout 

A tsunami of citizen activism, initiated by Occupy Wall Street, is poised to wash over American society. The coming battle to correct the  grotesquely unequal distribution of wealth and power in this country is likely to have an even more profound impact on our society than what occurred in the 1960s.

Fifty years ago, a few white students like me were outraged to find that the sugarcoated view of America we had been taught in the 50s did not match reality. The notions of justice and human rights we had internalized motivated our actions, and as idealists, we opposed the Jim Crow laws in the South and the needless killing in Southeast Asia....
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