Wednesday 30 November 2011

The Power of Wall Street, Not Just What They're Doing, But how They're Doing It.

The Power of Wall Street, Not Just What They're Doing, But how They're Doing It.

After major crises at hierarchical institutions from Penn State to the Catholic Church, it's time to give the Occupy movement's horizontal structure a chance. 


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Many of them got their first political awakening working on the Obama campaign, which was both tightly controlled from the top and also oddly open, easy to join and willing to trust volunteers with a large amount of information and responsibility. Disappointed not only with the personal failure of their charismatic leader but with the entire system in which he functions, those young people are quite literally doing it for themselves now.

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