As an outsider observer, it disturbs me a bit that protest marches are becoming more popular in the US. This reflects a wider disconnection between people and their government. In my Venezuelan case these kinds of marches have occurred nonstop since the very beginning of this twenty-first century and...
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Rubén Rivero Capriles
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Rubén
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Thu, Sep 17 2009
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Grassroots is a term that really needs no explanation. Let a blade of good old Bermuda grass get hold and it will spread across a lawn like an invading army. Grass starts at the gound and does its own thing. Which is why it is applied to viral political movements. Such movements get started at the local...
I was going to write a longer diatrabe where I describe in detail the March on Albany (NY) protest I went to this past week put on by the Tea Party people. I was kinda reluctant, as most of the people in the local group are all retirees and I'm fresh out of college, but at least it's nice to...
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Steve Horwitz recently posted a news update - several students at the New School are sitting-in in a department building as a form of protest. Admittedly I don't know the situation or what is underway, but the occurrence has me thinking about how...