Where's the Protest at Home?

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/31-4

On Saturday, I crossed paths with a few hundred protesters marching from Cambridge to Boston to call for the resignation of Egyptian President Mubarak. By appearance, they were a mixture of Arab-Americans, locals, and people from assorted other backgrounds.

The loud, peaceful march was almost startling, because you hardly see street protests in America these days, even in liberal Massachusetts. The Boston Globe quoted one Egyptian-American woman saying that middle class anger in Egypt has swelled with unemployment and inflation.

"You can't live a fairly decent life without being rich," she said.

In 2011, you might say the same about downwardly mobile America.

More at the link --

[Kievan Rus]

1. Protest? Now? B...but American Idle is on!

:sarcasm:

[emulatorloo]

3. You can do both. American Idol is on at night. Protests at embassies are during the day.

[Catherina]

2. Coming soon to a neighborhood near you. Rec'd n/t

[tularetom]

4. We only protest what the rich guys tell us to protest

[Buzz Clik]

5. Massachusetts is liberal?

Recent voter trends might suggest otherwise.