What if 99 percent had their own Super Committee?

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/Channels/Story.aspx?ID=1577070

11/24/2011

What if the 99 percent had our own super committee to come up with an economy and federal budget that actually works for us? Occupy DC’s Kevin Zeese.

: “We had experts come in who work in key areas of taxes and health care, social security and other key economic issues s well as people who are affected by those issues. And the combination of those people talking about them I think will give some clarity to what could be done to save the economy and get the economy on track, to create jobs and build collective bargaining power and actually reduce the deficit. Because the truth is you’re not gonna fix the deficit problem unless you fix the economic problem.”

Zeese sees two pillars of the occupy movement he believes can be very powerful in ending corporate rule in America.

: “Those two pillars – non-cooperation and civil resistance – will weaken the current structures that hold the current corporate government in place. And then we can actually have some impact. We see this as a battle between participatory democracy and concentrated wealth. And right now concentrated wealth is winning. They control the government and the government goes in the direction of the one percent. We want to change that direction to the direction of the 99 percent. And we document seven issues where the public is right on the issue and want to go the opposite direction the government is going. We’re seeking transformative change that’s really revolutionary in this country, to see the people rule.”

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