Comments on: RNC protesters decry convention police tactics http://minnesotaindependent.com/7201/activists-decry-police-tactics News. Politics. Media. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:48:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Eduardo Martinez http://minnesotaindependent.com/7201/activists-decry-police-tactics/comment-page-1#comment-11476 Eduardo Martinez Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:12:08 +0000 http://www.minnesotaindependent.com/?p=7201#comment-11476 I agree with the point made about the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign being the only voice for the poor. When I listen to politicians speak, I hear them voice their concern for the middle class, hardly ever, if ever, for the lower class. They talk about what they will do to help the middle class maintain their position, but never what they will do after the middle class falls from economic grace. <br><br>It is amazing to me how many people are unable to identify themselves as poor or lower class. It's as if the poor are those other people, those who can't feed themselves, who can't afford a place to stay; but most of the so called middle class are actually poor people living on credit. When that credit is taken away, it's like scales falling from the eyes of the blind. Only then are people confronted with poverty as their station. What the massive foreclosures of homes across the U.S. should show us is that we are not a nation of home owners; we are a nation of renters with "lease to buy" contracts and the banking industry is our landlord. I agree with the point made about the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign being the only voice for the poor. When I listen to politicians speak, I hear them voice their concern for the middle class, hardly ever, if ever, for the lower class. They talk about what they will do to help the middle class maintain their position, but never what they will do after the middle class falls from economic grace.

It is amazing to me how many people are unable to identify themselves as poor or lower class. It's as if the poor are those other people, those who can't feed themselves, who can't afford a place to stay; but most of the so called middle class are actually poor people living on credit. When that credit is taken away, it's like scales falling from the eyes of the blind. Only then are people confronted with poverty as their station. What the massive foreclosures of homes across the U.S. should show us is that we are not a nation of home owners; we are a nation of renters with “lease to buy” contracts and the banking industry is our landlord.

]]> By: Mr Deevers http://minnesotaindependent.com/7201/activists-decry-police-tactics/comment-page-1#comment-11363 Mr Deevers Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:22:03 +0000 http://www.minnesotaindependent.com/?p=7201#comment-11363 The march organizers need to take a little responsibility for the route they chose. When you end the march in a cage people will be backed into a corner. It would have been a whole lot wiser to return the march to Mears Park. The march organizers need to take a little responsibility for the route they chose. When you end the march in a cage people will be backed into a corner. It would have been a whole lot wiser to return the march to Mears Park.

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