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Monday, November 21, 2011
We Are the 99.99%
2 comments:
Mike D.
said...
"I don't appreciate people appointing themselves to represent me, to represent us" - Woman at Occupy L.A., angry about a deal in the works with the mayor
Interesting statement, lady. That is precisely how I feel about your Occupy group appointing itself to represent me!
The woman in the streets of LA has little power to effect your or my life but the woman from Watauga County who is our representative in the US Congress does effect our lives and she is there because banking , insurance, coal, oil, pharmaceuticals, Art Pope, the Koch brothers, the defense industry and the Greed is Good part of the 1% has bought her to represent their interest at the expense of the other 99%.
She does not represent the needs Northwest North Carolina citizens and has a record of supporting torture, unnessary war, bigoty, and scapgoating to maintain power for the greedy.
J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
The views expressed on WataugaWatch are solely those of J.W. Williamson or individual contributors and are not necessarily shared nor endorsed by the Watauga County Democratic Party nor by any other adults of sound mind in this or any other universe.
2 comments:
"I don't appreciate people appointing themselves to represent me, to represent us" - Woman at Occupy L.A., angry about a deal in the works with the mayor
Interesting statement, lady. That is precisely how I feel about your Occupy group appointing itself to represent me!
Mike D
The woman in the streets of LA has little power to effect your or my life but the woman from Watauga County who is our representative in the US Congress does effect our lives and she is there because banking , insurance, coal, oil, pharmaceuticals, Art Pope, the Koch brothers, the defense industry and the Greed is Good part of the 1% has bought her to represent their interest at the expense of the other 99%.
She does not represent the needs Northwest North Carolina citizens and has a record of supporting torture, unnessary war, bigoty, and scapgoating to maintain power for the greedy.
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