Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Al Gore Calls For An American "Spring"

What is it that Al Gore thinks is happening in New York with the "close down Wall Street" protests?

Each 'Spring' directs its protest at what it is that strangles people's lives as human beings on this planet.  In Egypt, it was perceived to be the dictatorship of which Hosni Mubarak was the embodiment.  In the US, it is the 'free' market which has reduced such a huge percentage of the population to poverty (I've heard commentaries that a third of US citizens now live below the official poverty line but assume I must have misheard) & keeps them there as an awful warning to anybody who might think of stepping out of line, that could be perceived as 'the enemy'.  The embodiment of the free market is Wall Street, so if there are demonstrations against Wall Street, I think the American Spring can be said to have come.  Of course, not all 'Springs' lead to summer ...

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On 2 Oct 2011, at 02:35, Abdul Karim Bangura <theai@earthlink.net> wrote:

Posted on August 4, 2011

Al Gore: "We Need To Have An American Spring"

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"Now, they've been around for a while, but they are spreading far and wide and more people are getting involved. We need to have an American spring, you know, the Arab spring. The non-violent part of it isn't finished yet, but we need to have an American spring. A kind of an American Tahrir Square. Non-violent change where people from the grassroots get involved again. Not the, you know, not in the Tea Party style,'" Al Gore said on Current TV's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann."

"There are people who are genuinely upset in the Tea Party. I understand that. But that movement was funded with seed money from right-wing billionaires, the Koch Brothers, and promoted on Fox News," Gore said.

Al Gore is the founder and chairman of Current TV.

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