This rebellion will not stop.

The lords of finance in the
skyscrapers surrounding
Zuccotti Park, who toy
with money and lives, who make
the political class, the press, and the
judiciary jump at their demands,
who destroy the ecosystem for profit
and drain the U.S. Treasury to gamble
and speculate, took little notice
at first activists on the street below
them three weeks ago.

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The elites consider everyone
outside their sphere marginal or
invisible. What significance could
a young woman named Ketchup,
who worked in a Chicago theater
cooperative and paid her bills as
a waitress, have for the powerful?
What could she and those in Zuccotti
Park do to them? What threat
can the weak pose to the strong?
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Those who worship money believe
their buckets of cash, like the $4.6
million J.P. Morgan Chase gave last
week to the New York City Police
Foundation, can buy them perpetual
power and security. Masters
all, kneeling before the idols of the
marketplace, blinded by their selfimportance,
impervious to human
suffering, bloated from unchecked
greed and privilege, they were about
to be taught the folly of hubris.
Even now, three weeks later,
the elites and their mouthpieces in
the press continue to puzzle over
what we want. Where is the list of
demands? Why don’t they present
us with specific goals? Why can’t
they articulate what they need?
The goal to us is very, very
clear. It can be articulated in one
word — REBELLION. We have not
come to work within the system.
We are not pleading with the Congress
for electoral reform. We know
electoral politics is a farce. We have
found another way to be heard and
exercise power. We have no faith in
the political system or the two major
political parties. And we know the
corporate press will not amplify our
voices which is why we have a press
of our own. We know the economy
serves the oligarchs. We know that
to survive this protest we will have
to build non-hierarchical communal
systems that care for everyone.
These are goals the power elite
cannot comprehend. They cannot
envision a day when they will not
be in charge of our lives. The elites
believe, and seek to make us believe,
that globalization and unfettered
capitalism are natural law, some
kind of permanent and eternal
dynamic that can never be altered.

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What the elites fail to realize is that
rebellion will not stop until the corporate
state is extinguished. It will
not stop until the corporate abuse
of the poor, the working class, the
elderly, the sick, children, those
being slaughtered in our imperial
wars and tortured in our black sites,
stops. It will not stop until foreclosures
and bank repossessions stop. It
will not stop until students no longer
have to go into massive debt to
be educated, and families no longer
have to plunge into bankruptcy to
pay medical bills. It will not stop
until the corporate destruction of
the ecosystem stops, and our relationships
with each other and the
planet are radically reconfigured.
And that is why the elites, and
the rotted and degenerate system of
corporate power they sustain, are
in serious trouble. That is why they
keep asking what the demands are.

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They don’t know what is happening.
They are deaf, dumb and blind.
by chris hedges

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