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egbertowillies

(4,158 posts) Tue May 13, 2014, 11:14 PM May 2014

Occupy Kingwood brought activism to a very conservative community.

Kingwood is a very conservative community. A group of residents brought a flavor of the Occupy Movement for 52 consecutive Saturdays. Check it out and please subscribe to my new YouTube Channel.

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Occupy Kingwood brought activism to a very conservative community. (Original Post) egbertowillies May 2014 OP

Will have to give this a better watch tommorrow, Joe Shlabotnik May 2014 #1

Here's an example: It was a mostly Republican group of Farmers in PA who truedelphi May 2014 #2

Where is Kingwood? ellenrr May 2014 #3

Joe Shlabotnik

(5,604 posts)

1. Will have to give this a better watch tommorrow,

Reply to egbertowillies (Original post)

Wed May 14, 2014, 04:16 AM

May 2014

but kudos to Occupy Kingswood.

And yes there ARE bipartisan issues that we can all agree on. The problem is that the 'bipartisan' agreements that Washington agrees to, are all of the same neo-liberal issues that many on the both the 'left' and 'right' disagree with. The beltway owned media will cover squabbles and scandals drama, but wont touch the venality of our whole system of governance and economics.

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)

2. Here's an example: It was a mostly Republican group of Farmers in PA who

Reply to Joe Shlabotnik (Reply #1)

Fri May 16, 2014, 12:54 AM

May 2014

Put together a Community Rights group, got an ordinance together, had local voters pass it, and thus kept a 14,000 pig farm out of their area. I can't think of any Democrats that would be opposed to that good bit of work!

ellenrr

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3. Where is Kingwood?

Reply to egbertowillies (Original post)

Tue May 20, 2014, 06:44 AM

May 2014

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