This article in MinnPost by Eric Black highlights the fact that more and more Americans are waking up to the devastation of an under-regulated financial industry.
I have discussed often on this blog about the importance of speaking truthfully about reality. Language forms and informs HOW we think. People are beginning to realize this. Take a look at the language on some of the signs reported in the article. Here are what some of the signs read:
“Lower the Maximum Wage”
“The winds of change are blowing”
“This is not a crisis; it’s a slam”
“Capitalism encourages greed”
“Billions of our tax dollars went to bailed out bank bonuses and trickled down to cutting social services”
“Blame Reagan and Bush; Not Obama”
(Or, on the contrary:)
“Bush? Obama? Same policies – Join the Ron Paul Revolution”
“A 4-day 32-hour workweek = more real jobs for Americans”
“Wall St. Econ 101: Privatize the profits; Socialize the losses”
“No slaves; No masters”
“Wake Up America”
“The 99% is too big to fail”
“Eat the Rich”
“Economic Justice means forgive loans, not lawbreaking banks”
“Be Warned: The Nature of your oppression is the aesthetic of our anger”
“Corporate Greed is Killing this country and its future”
“We are still a colony of the British Empire under the jurisdiction of the Magna Charta”
“Health Care is a Right”
“Wall Street Cheats—Stop Naked Shorting”
“Audit the Federal Reserve”
“Corporate America: Join me or face your doom!”
“Money is not Evil; Buying and Selling Congress to protect Wall Street Is”
“I dissent”
“Tax the 1%”
“Can I please get a bailout to pay for college”
“You’ve Got to change the world and use this chance to be heard; your time is now” (This, the sign holder told me, is a lyric from a song called “Butterflies and Hurricanes” by a group called Muse.)
“We ARE the government”
“Jesus: Please rescue the other 99 sheep”
“This is what a global revolution looks like”
“We now have government by the corporations, for the corporations”
“Ministry of Propaganda: Fox News”
“If they are saying ‘Let them eat cake,’ maybe we should say ‘Off with their heads.’”
