Friday, November 18, 2011

We are the 99%. | Seattle Education #OWS

We are the 99%. | Seattle Education:

We are the 99%.

If you are unemployed, underemployed or concerned about being next in line to lose your job, if you have given up on finding a job, if you are the sole provider in your family because your partner/spouse lost their job, if your children don’t have enough teachers, resources, materials in their schools and the PTA or parents have to pitch in financially just so that your children can have what you would consider a basic public education, then you are part of the 99%. If it’s difficult to pay your bills even though you’re working at least 40 hours a week or to pay your mortgage or rent or buy groceries for your family or pay for medical coverage, you are the 99%. If you have felt that those in power, the folks that you voted for, have no concern about the welfare of you of your family, no concern about your environment or your plight financially, then you are a part of the 99%.

That said, it’s interesting that the revolution was not televised until all of the tents in towns and cities throughout the United States and Canada began to be torn down. What is more ironic is that the media continued to cover it