[lbo-talk] Aiming at Roots of Climate Chaos, 'Flood Wall Street' Targets Capitalism Itself

Gar Lipow gar.lipow at gmail.com
Tue Sep 23 06:57:04 PDT 2014



> "What does climate change have to do with capitalism?

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Jan Cox <jkcox30 at yahoo.com> wrote:


> I don't know where to begin on this topic. Is your question serious,
> Joseph?
>
> Jan Cox
>

I gather you did not read all the way to the second sentence of his forward, which ended with the word "everything".


> > On Sep 21, 2014, at 17:44, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > "What does climate change have to do with capitalism? According to 'Flood
> > Wall Street <http://floodwallstreet.net/>' organizers, who are part of a
> > mass people's response to the upcoming United Nations Climate Summit in
> New
> > York City, the answer is simple: Everything.
> >
> > "To illustrate this, thousands of people on Monday, September 22 will
> bring
> > the climate crisis to the doorsteps of the financial institutions
> > underpinning the capitalist economic system by 'flooding' New York's Wall
> > Street district with a mass sit-in of people donning blue and bearing a
> > 300-foot banner that reads 'Capitalism = Climate Chaos. Flood Wall
> Street.'
> > ..."
> >
> >
> http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/16/aiming-roots-climate-chaos-flood-wall-street-targets-capitalism-itself
> >
> > --
> > "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
> > lytlað."
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