by Chris Hedges
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Truthdig
Oct. 10, 2011
Ketchup, a petite 22-year-old from Chicago with wavy red hair and glasses with bright red frames, arrived in Zuccotti Park in New York on Sept. 17. She had a tent, a rolling suitcase, 40 dollars’ worth of food, the graphic version of Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States” and a sleeping bag. She had no return ticket, no idea what she was undertaking, and no acquaintances among the stragglers who joined her that afternoon to begin the Wall Street occupation. She decided to go to New York after reading the Canadian magazine Adbusters, which called for the occupation, although she noted that when she got to the park Adbusters had no discernable presence.
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Chris Hedges spent two decades as a foreign reporter covering wars in Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. His latest books are Death of the Liberal Class, and The World as It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress.
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Chris Hedges: Occupy Wall Street Interview – We have a moral imperative to fight for life
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Superb article from a superb writer. Ketchup lives. Chris puts us right there with those showing us the way to, perhaps, a last chance.
Thank you for the inspiration.
If you haven’t seen the recent interview with Chris on CBC, you really might be glad if you check it out. His very last line is perfect.
Thanks, Rand. I put in the link to the interview (2nd video on the post).
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Gore Vidal said that Marshall law in the U.S. will be declared in the 21st century . i think that this will be the response of dictator Obama to occupy wall st.
Thanks much for these truths, We appreciate your hard efforts to bring us together in awareness and realization. Bean