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- iHaveNet.com: Politics
by Lincoln Mitchell
There are some obvious and significant similarities between the
Both have their roots in the current economic crisis that is now in its third year as well as, more profoundly, in a sense of powerlessness in the face of corporate and political power. They have both arisen out of times of economic uncertainty when people are genuinely afraid of the consequences of chronic unemployment, a deeply damaged housing market, and little hope of economic improvement in the immediately foreseeable future.
Despite these surface similarities, however, there are some very real differences between the two movements.
The Occupy Wall Street movement, on the other hand, has the potential to be genuinely transformative in a very different way.
The battery of economic concerns raised by the activists in Zucotti Park and elsewhere are not new, but they have not driven political debate, or even street activism, in a very long time in the United States. These economic concerns around issues of equality, fairness, and limiting corporate power can be addressed only through deep, meaningful changes in our society and economy. In this respect, the frequently maligned absence from Occupy Wall Street of a simple slogan or set of demands, such as the
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