A sign of turbulent times–activist US media site calling for donations to stage a mass occupation in San Francisco’s financial district in a few days. In an earlier New York occupation, people demonstrated outside Park Avenue apartments of billionaires, including that of Rupert Murdoch. In the words of the Bob Dylan song , also rendered by Simon and Garfunkel , the times they are a-changin', windows and walls are rattling , the waters are rising .
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A manifestation of the deep unrest in America and other parts of the world is the OCCUPY WALL STREET movement which spread across the nation and overseas like wildfire. While there is much talk about the so-called Arab Spring in North Africa and the Middle East, there are abundant signs that the US is on the verge of a massive social, financial and political upheaval , such is the immense dissatisfaction with the nation’s institutions .
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A manifestation of the deep unrest in America and other parts of the world is the OCCUPY WALL STREET movement which spread across the nation and overseas like wildfire. While there is much talk about the so-called Arab Spring in North Africa and the Middle East, there are abundant signs that the US is on the verge of a massive social, financial and political upheaval , such is the immense dissatisfaction with the nation’s institutions .
While the mainstream US media has attempted to downplay and belittle the OCCUPY WALL STREET demonstrations, NationofChange –Progressive Journalism for Positive Action- both supports, covers and raises funds for OWS. NationofChange recently ran an opinion piece THE FAILURE OF OUR” FREE “PRESS , by William Astore , which asked if America truly does have a free press ,one willing to challenge the powerful and serve the people . Much of the mainstream media,it stated, willingly acted as “stenographers”to the high and mighty . It is recommended reading at http://www.nationofchange.org/failure-our-free-press-1326560283.
