georgephillip
Diamond Member
"Not so long ago, Americans witnessed the beginning of a mass democratic uprising. Thousands of average people, disgusted by greedy elites and corporate control of government, launched a movement that spread to almost every state in the nation.
"They did it to reject debt.
"They did it to fight foreclosures.
"They did it to topple a world where the 1 percent determined life for the other 99...
"The year? 1877. The people? Dirt-poor farmers who would come to be known as Populists."
Populism Isn't Dead, It's Marching: What 19th Century Farmers Can Teach Occupiers About How to Keep Going | Truthout
Wall Street controlled the US government in 1877 as it does today.
The solution hasn't changed either.
"They did it to reject debt.
"They did it to fight foreclosures.
"They did it to topple a world where the 1 percent determined life for the other 99...
"The year? 1877. The people? Dirt-poor farmers who would come to be known as Populists."
Populism Isn't Dead, It's Marching: What 19th Century Farmers Can Teach Occupiers About How to Keep Going | Truthout
Wall Street controlled the US government in 1877 as it does today.
The solution hasn't changed either.