Wall Street or the Common Good
The Occupy Wall Street movement is growing. Mumia Abu-Jamal from his jail cell writes: “In Lower Manhattan’s Zucotti Park, renamed ‘Liberty Square’ by the demonstrators, the cast of thousands swell in rebellion against the betrayals by the banks, Wall Street’s relentless greed, the plague of joblessness and the craven servility of the political class, both Republicans and Democrats, to their moneyed masters. In short, the central focus of their protest is capitalism, greed writ large. Begun mostly by unemployed urban youth, it has drawn the presence and support of public workers, students, teachers and a considerable number of gray hairs. That’s because social discontent is so widespread that it is spreading like wildfire. From Wall Street to Denver, Los Angeles, and beyond. Demonstrations are springing up like mushrooms after a storm, in protest to crony capitalism.”
Speaker
David Korten
David Korten is a philosopher and visionary. For several decades he was an insider in the development establishment. He worked for the Ford Foundation and USAID and taught at Harvard’s Graduate School of Business. Having severed his ties to the past, today he is a leading voice for economic and social justice. He is a co-founder of YES! magazine and author of When Corporations Rule the World, The Great Turning, Agenda for a New Economy and Change the Story, Change the Future.
Elaine Hopkins –
This is a fabulous, insightful talk which ties it all together, Wall Street, Main Street, environmental sustainability, the works. It should be required reading for all students and everyone else. I would also like to see him interviewed on MSNBC shows.
Sydney Brooks –
I will be brief. This radio program is excellent. Mr. Korten speaks concisely and in language that draws the listener in. He educates us on what real value is and why money is not. What are assets? The every day person thinks in terms of our bank account and our house. The billionaires think in terms of what they can shuffle on a computer in minutes or seconds. It is not tangible and no work was done to earn it.
Every politician needs to hear this.
Sydney Brooks –
I will be brief. This radio program is excellent. Mr. Korten speaks concisely and in language that draws the listener in. He educates us on what real value is and why money is not. What are assets? The every day person thinks in terms of our bank account and our house. The billionaires think in terms of what they can shuffle on a computer in minutes or seconds. It is not tangible and no work was done to earn it.
Every politician needs to hear this.