Should the 99% be TIME's Person of the Year 2011? - Vote yes / no

[flamingdem]

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2098471_2098472_2098498,00.html?xid=poywalk-tweet

On Sept. 17, about 2,000 people amassed on Wall Street to protest corporate greed and influence in government. They didn't succeed in occupying all of the financial district, or even all of Wall Street, but they have taken and held a small urban park in lower Manhattan around the corner from Ground Zero. In the early weeks of the demonstrations, a core group of protesters set up a complex tent city from which they organized large marches and rallied around the slogan "We are the 99%." The movement has since gone national, with rallies and "occupations" in dozens of cities across the U.S., from Oakland, where confrontations with the police became violent, to Atlanta, where protesters expanded the group's mandate by occupying a house to prevent a bank from taking it in foreclosure. As they prepare for what will be a long and cold winter, the Occupy Wall Street protesters say they are deciding what will be next in their struggle, but they've already succeeded in changing the national conversation from a focus on the debt to one of income inequality, opportunity ...

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[AllyCat]

1. Nice! It should be 99%, but it is 74% and that is pretty good.

[bengalherder]

2. Ah Time will do their bait and switch dance again.

I'm sure they'll wind up some usual shill as their POY.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. 75% YES

Considering all that the corporate media have done to denigrate and vilify, I consider this figure astounding.

[RZM]

4. Probably won't happen

If they do they would fold it into 'the protester' and include the Arab Spring. If they go the 'mass' route like that they might even limit it to the Arab spring and leave out OWS entirely.

[NOMOREDRUGWAR]

5. I voted for Anonymous instead

nt

[Scuba]

6. Good choice. n/t

[xchrom]

7. recommend

[femmedem]

8. I voted for the 99%, but Elizabeth Warren's a good choice, too.

As are the Fukushima 50, Anonymous, Arab Youth Protestors and Gabrielle Giffords.
Is anyone else smiling because Kim Kardashian has more votes than Michelle Bachmann?

[roseBudd]

9. All DUers that are on Facebook share this on your wall to support OWS

[Upton]

10. Didn't Julian Assange win this vote last year?

And the Time editors just ignored it...I mean, what's the point in voting?

[roseBudd]

11. i voted yes on 99%, anonymous, warren & no on 1%, cantor, paul ryan, bachman, cain, romney...

to see results you have to vote. All my nos had very high nos, low yeses. Especially Cain

[roseBudd]

12. go OWS, 99% is at 80%

[aaaaaa5a]

13. No....

Sadly, the 99% haven't done enough with regards to changing this country to deserve it.



I voted for the arab protestors, because they ACTUALLY brought about REAL CHANGE.

[roseBudd]

14. now at 84%