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Title: Van Jones Praises Occupy Wall Street, Says Progressives Launching 'Oct.Offense Post by: Coach Hank Crisp on October 05, 2011, 05:10:02 PM Quote http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/01/van-jones-occupy-wall-street-rebuild-the-dream_n_990463.html Former White House adviser Van Jones says that progressives are going to launch an "October offensive" to rival the Tea Party, in the spirit of the Arab Spring protests across the Middle East. "Everybody should hold onto their seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back. You can see it coming," Jones said this week on MSNBC's "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell. "When Warren Buffett comes out and says, look, we've got to do something to raise taxes and to do better by America, and you've got these young kids who are going out there on Wall Street," Jones said, referring to the members of Occupy Wall Street, who have been camped out in Zuccotti Park in Manhattan's financial district for the past several weeks, "There's a generation of Americans who are looking around and saying 'What is the American Dream going to look like for me?' They're going to be standing up." |