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    “All right, there are 47% who are with him (Obama), who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to healthcare, to food, to housing, to you-name-it.”

    He added: “These are people who pay no income tax.”

    Mitt Romney confirms authenticity of video where he calls 47% of voters government-dependent, the latest in a gaffe-strewn Presidential campaign. He said only that the case was not “elegantly stated” and that he had “spoken off the cuff”.

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    Movements that may appear to us in retrospect as a unified set of events are, in fact, irregular and scattered. Only afterwards do we see the underlying common institutional causes and movement passions that mark these events so we can name them, as the abolitionist movement, for example, or the labor movement or the civil rights movement. I think Occupy is likely to unfold in a similar way.

    Francis Fox Piven on why it’s mistaken to write Occupy’s obituary this first anniversary: the lesson of history is that movements for justice are irrepressible, she claims in a comment piece for the Guardian.

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