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Occupy Underground

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1. I would add that 'waking people up to inequality' helped Obama win in 2012.

Tue Sep 17, 2013, 09:20 PM

Sep 2013

Many who liked what Occupy was saying at first were moderates. They were the ones who had been asleep to inequality.

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