AM Psalm 31 PM Psalm 35
Haggai 1:1-15
Rev. 2:18-29
Matt. 23:27-39
Quoting from : http://www.staythirstymedia.com/201112-064/html/201112-sipprelle-fair-shake.html
"Participants in the movement are motivated by the feeling that they
cannot get a fair shake any longer, despite their willingness to attend
college and graduate, work at (or try to find decent-paying) jobs and
serve in the U.S. military. They believe that the odds are increasingly
stacked by both business and government against their abilities as
individuals to shape their own futures.
Occupy Wall Street is an expression, born outside traditional
politics, of the fading confidence in the tenet that an American can
work hard, (mostly) control his or her destiny and achieve the American
Dream.
Yaneer Bar-Yam, an American born physicist, systems scientist
and founder of the New England Complex Systems Institute described
Occupy Wall Street as “an expression of general concern for financial
and economic well-being” that focuses on the problem of “undue
influence” exerted by business on government that government has been
unable or unwilling to withstand."
I'm wondering about OWS - is it more a true biblical call for economic justice, being concerned about those without power/standing/voice . . . or is it a yearning for the ability to be self-sufficient?
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