Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and its Poisonous Consequences
Tues., Jan. 31, 7:00 p.m. $8. The New School…66 W. 12th St.
Please join us for a public forum on the growing concentration of wealth, income and power in America. Why is it happening? How is it affecting us? What can we do about it? Moderated by Laura Flanders, author of The W Effect and host of Air America’s Laura Flanders Show and featuring Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist and Princeton economist, on the causes and far-reaching consequences of the quarter-century-long trend of growing economic inequality in America. Joined by Meizhu Lui of United for a Fair Economy; James Lardner, senior fellow at DEMOS and co-author of the groundbreaking new book Inequality Matters; and other panelists to be announced. Co-sponsored by The New School, The New Press and DEMOS.
World Can’t Wait to Rally in Times Square Tonight
1/31 | According to the World Can’t Wait Press Office, “as Bush steps to the podium to deliver his State of the Union address, “political drown-out” rallies will take place in 65 cities across the country.
By World Can’t Wait
As Bush steps to the podium to deliver his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, ‘political drown-out” rallies will take place in 65+ cities across the country. In New York City, people will gather at Times Square at 8, Rev. Al Sharpton and others will speak. In Washington DC, the rally will be on the west side of the Capitol on the National Mall. Featured speakers are Cindy Sheehan and Ann Wright.
At exactly 9:00 PM EST people at these rallies will BRING THE NOISE, drowning out Bush’s lies with drums and violins, banging pots, sounding car horns and voices, demanding: BUSH STEP DOWN and TAKE YOUR PROGRAM WITH YOU.
This is just me being naiive and ignorant, but let me think out loud for a minute and say how childish that sounds. Rather than listen, hear what Bush says, and then organize to discuss and educate, opponents of Bush are simply going to stick their fingers in their ears and go “LALALALALALALALA…I’M NOT LISTENGIN….LALALALALALA” They hope to metaphorically drown out Bush’s lies. I’m sure if you had a picture tom. of this protest, you could come up with some creative metaphors and captions of your own.
Is this humorous, or am I off?
Comments (2)
…stick their fingers in their ears and go “LALALALALALALALA…I’M NOT LISTENING….LALALALALALA”
Now there is a well-used metaphor. And yes, it is humorous (both the situation and your analysis).
humorous…you’re calling my metaphor humorours! well then, show me how it’s done…