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Mahler For The People: The L.A. Philharmonic In Caracas : Deceptive Cadence

Philharmonic in a rehearsal of Mahler's Symphony No. 4, on tour last month in Caracas, Venezuela. Brian Lauritzen/KUSC Conductor Gustavo Dudamel leads the L.A. Philharmonic in a rehearsal of Mahler's Symphony No. 4, on tour last month in Caracas, Venezuela. "Not Part of the 99%"? You're Fooling Yourself. "I'm not part of the 99%.

"Not Part of the 99%"? You're Fooling Yourself

" That's the catch-phrase of a counter-protest that misunderstands the entire nature of the Occupy movement. Buying the lies that 99% activists are just a bunch of unemployed hippies looking for handouts, people like the following young student trumpet their work-ethics, and chide the rest of us for not being them.

Parodying the various signs held by Occupy demonstrators, this picture epitomizes a view that misses the entire point of the protests. "The 99%" does not refer to people who want handouts; it refers to the people who pay the larger share of taxes, work the longer amount of hours, do the harder degree of work, and yet continually have our pay, jobs, health, environment and economy endangered or destroyed by the other 1%. * Having her pay or job cut so that her CEO can get a pay raise. Petition - Amazon of Europe.