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GWEN IFILL (Newshour): The anti-Wall Street protests went global over the weekend. And, today, world leaders took note of the spreading movement and its possible implications.
NewsHour correspondent Kwame Holman has our report.
KWAME HOLMAN (Newshour): President Obama drew on public discontent without mentioning the protests directly as he promoted his jobs bill in Asheville, N.C.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: When you hear what's going on out in the country, when you take the time to listen, you understand that a lot of folks are hurting out there.
KWAME HOLMAN: The nearly month-old Occupy Wall Street movement had started with 1,500 gathered in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, but the ranks surged on Saturday. An estimated 6,000 people joined a rally in Times Square, insisting the system is weighted in favor of the rich and against everyone else.
PBS Newshour 10/17/2011
COMMENTS:
As the historian in Part-2 implied, this movement is a work-in-progress and new. This movement is at the stage of framing or defining issues, NOT providing policies. I think this is instinctively smart politically. What I mean by "instinctively" is that this is not planned.
If, or when, the movement provides policies they open the issue to direct political attack which will be a distraction from actual solutions.
What the movement is really addressing is a long fomenting issue with all modern societies in general. The ever WIDENING gab between haves and have-nots (societies becoming more unequal). IMHO this means that a political solution is not feasible UNTIL we change our societies. Can that happen? Maybe. Will it happen? Not in our life time, IF at all.
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