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(3,910 posts)
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 03:07 PM Mar 2016

Sanders Embodies The Spirit of Occupy Wall Street



5 years since the Occupy Wall Street protestors gathered to fight an unjust system, and we still haven’t had any meaningful reforms in place to prevent another corporate-led destruction of our economy. That’s why Bernie Sanders is doing so well against the establishment – those same ideals that the OWS movement were fighting for are the ones that Bernie has always been fighting for.

Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.
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lewebley3

(3,412 posts)
1. Yes, Sanders rep occupy wall St. The people who did the sitting got thing done
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 03:18 PM
Mar 2016

The people of occupy Wall St : didn't bother to vote;

Sanders sat in the Senate until he 72 years old accomplishing nothing:


Now, Sanders wants be President and he bashes the people that carried
his water in the Dem leadership and party.


Sander is unreliable fighter for Dem as the Occupy Wall St, people were in voting:

Sanders is a long winded talker from the Senate: He is still doing the same thing:

except he is promising free college which he doesn't have votes for.

downeastdaniel

(497 posts)
3. I largely agree, but have to differ with the "get on with their lives" part of your tale, the Wall
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 06:07 PM
Mar 2016

Street Occupiers were forcibly thrown out of Zucatti Park by the Cops in the middle of the night trashing the entire library and nearly some folks asleep in their tents. Just don't want it to be known by many that the just grew tired of their action. By the way, ALL OCCUPIERS across the nation were thrown out the same night, and many were arrested.

corbettkroehler

(1,898 posts)
4. The Anger Didn't Go Away, It Was Suppressed In Some Cases
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 10:51 PM
Mar 2016

Let's not forget that the mayors of NYC and Oakland, CA responded to the occupying protesters with violence.

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