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Occupy Underground

limpyhobbler

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2. As far as I can tell Occupy is just infused into all the social movements.

Reply to starroute (Reply #1)

Sat May 4, 2013, 08:03 PM

May 2013

If you go to climate or fracking rallies, you see alot of the same people there.

Occupy wedged opened some extra space to talk bluntly about corporate capitalism and our tattered democracy.

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While Media Looks for Encampments, Occupy Helps Build the Popular Resistance [View all] limpyhobbler May 2013 OP

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As far as I can tell Occupy is just infused into all the social movements. limpyhobbler May 2013 #2

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