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azmom

(5,208 posts)
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 05:56 PM Jun 2015

Uniting fight $15 with Ferguson fury

http://www.socialistalternative.org/2014/12/19/uniting-fight-15-ferguson-fury/

For the tens of thousands demanding justice for Mike Brown and Eric Garner, the connection between economic injustice and state violence couldn’t be clearer. Just a few miles from where police murdered Eric Garner, a low-income black man selling loosey cigarettes to scrape out a living, the white collar criminals on Wall Street remain free to continue their corrupt, illegal financial schemes.
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Uniting fight $15 with Ferguson fury (Original Post) azmom Jun 2015 OP
Die selling a few cigarettes aspirant Jun 2015 #1
That poor man, and his family. azmom Jun 2015 #2
Somewhat aspirant Jun 2015 #3
I agree. It would be better for them to exit. azmom Jun 2015 #4

aspirant

(3,533 posts)
1. Die selling a few cigarettes
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 01:50 AM
Jun 2015

and then laugh at our laws when stealing trillions

Capitalism,isn't it amazing

azmom

(5,208 posts)
2. That poor man, and his family.
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 02:01 AM
Jun 2015

And all of us. Capitalism has failed. Have you been keeping abreast on the Greece situation?

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