Occupy Wall Street looms over wins vs. SOPA bill, oil pipeline and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker
Juan Gonzalez
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, January 19 2012
This nation’s fast-growing populist movement against unbridled corporate power scored an astonishing trifecta this week.
In the span of just a few hours on Wednesday, three vastly different protest movements all achieved startling success the same way: by mobilizing the fury of tens of thousands of ordinary citizens.
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By the end of the day, several stunned senators and congressmen who had originally supported the legislation — including both Democrats and Republicans — had jumped ship, and the bills in their current forms now seem dead.
Phi Beta Iota: What is NOT happening is a coalescence of Tea Party, Occupy, Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich supporters, and independents. This should all be a dry run for first demanding Electoral Reform Act of 2012, and then electing We the People Reform Coalition.
