1. Doulas Rushkoff nails OWS' past and future in an essay written for the human microphone at Zucotti Park →

    I am humbled and honored to be amplified by your voices.

    You are not fighting against people, but against a machine.
    It was put in place over 500 years ago.
    By a wealthy elite – trying to repress a booming peer to peer economy.
    Those people are all dead, but their program lives on.

    They invented an operating system called central currency.
    People who used to trade directly,
    were now forced to borrow money from the king’s bank.
    At interest.

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