What Can Stop the One Percent?

Naomi Klein: There's only one thing that can block the wish list of the one percent, and it's a very big thing: the rest of us.

If there is one thing I know, it is that the one percent loves a crisis. When people are panicked and desperate and no one seems to know what to do, that is the ideal time to push through their wish list of pro-corporate policies: privatizing education and social security, slashing public services, getting rid of the last constraints on corporate power. Amidst the economic crisis, this is happening the world over.

And there is only one thing that can block this tactic, and fortunately, it’s a very big thing: the 99 percent. And that 99 percent is taking to the streets from Madison to Madrid to say “No. We will not pay for your crisis.”

http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/the-most-important-thing-in-the-world