This is TIME Person of the Year Day, so it’s a perfect time to see who rates with Care2 members. This is a slide show of choices 1,2 and 3, with a few member quotes along the way.
Number One: Occupy Wall Street and the 99 Percent
The people of Occupy Wall Street deserve “people of the year”. This amazing groundswell of average citizens is transforming the national dialogue. Kris A.
Not person of the year, people of year, OWS hands down. Carlene V.
OWS. This is a true peoples’ movement. It was not founded by politicians. It is not financed by billionaires. They are fighting to bring democracy back to this country. Our ideal has always been about fairness, whatever the ups and downs we’ve had as a country over the course of our history. OWS is giving hope back to people. John D.
I vote for the 99% – the ordinary folk who work and struggle each day to make a living and care for family and friends, who deal with cutbacks, who pay the taxes, who live on limited pensions, who work to protect the ecology, who struggle for human rights… Wayne M.
Us. The 99%. Tracy S
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thank the gods and goddesses for the unions. egual pay in spite of what your dangly bits might be
wow sorry for all the typos. I need to proofread better
This should be the norm 4 every country! Thanks
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+ add your ownOWS all the way!
OWS!
OWS I thank them all for what they are doing.
Let's give the award to the veteran whose spleen was burst by a police baton, and left to writhe in pain on the floor of a jail cell for 13 hours, prior to being sent to a hospital where, thankfully, emergency surgery saved his life.
OWS for the win!
No argument here...... as part of OWS, I modestly admit that I think they should become that ONE PERSON of the YEAR!!!!
Beverly Smith
"Time" made a good choice. These brave people are standing up for all of us around the world who believe in justice and human rights. God bless them!
I'm for the 99%.
... im not so sure
"Occupy Wall Street" clearly the winner!
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