Ah, Remember 2008, 2009 and 2010 when we were told Frances Pivens was just a delightful old Granny, baking cookies for her grandchildren and knitting afghans (not the people)…oh those where the days….but see what Granny is up to now….

2010 Frances Fox Piven Rings in The New Year By Calling for Violent Revolution

Frances Fox Piven:

You know I’m glad to be here! I’m so glad that you are here. You are amazing! Allot of you are young, you have energy, imagination, guts! You could start a movement in the United States and maybe across the globe! And you know, you have come to the right place to kick off that movement! Wall Street! Wall Street is the center of the neo liberal cancer that has spread across the world.
You know, you’ve heard people say they’re greedy, and they are greedy. You’ve heard people say they’re thieves, and they are thieves. But they’re also cannibals because they are eating their own… us!
They have managed over the last 50 years to push all the tax onto our backs and to virtually eliminate their own tax and then what do they do? They say oh the deficits, they are the big problem. They are a problem because big business and finance have stop paying taxes!
And then what do they do? They insist on attacking public education, they insist on firing teachers, they roll back pensions, does that make sense? They don’t even care if they live in this country! They’re gonna suck it dry!
Well, can we reverse that? Well, the people have reversed corporate greed and madness before! So, this is the beginning, there are movements, occupations like this now in LA, Chicago, I heard about one in Boston tonight, were gonna re-occupy our country! And to do that, we have to link arms, with poor people,with black people, with working people, with unions, we have to all be together because this is going to be the fight of our lives.

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Russel Simmons:
I had a long speech but she said everything. She started with the rap about how courageous you all are, how inspirational you are, how you represent the seeds of a revolution and it touched my heart. Then she went on to talk about Wall Street, and she went on to talk about our unions, she went on to talk about our social programs, and our education and the class warfare being waged on the poor on and the middle class. That fact is our problem, at least our number one problem is the corporations and the other special interest groups that are more important to our politicians than the people.
The lobbyists and the money gotta get the fuck out of Washington! I didn’t say we should tear the Democratic system down, I say we should re-build it. I didn’t say we should tear it down I said we should rebuild it.
The truth is, I should pay more taxes! If I can’t pay more taxes, I give it the fuck away anyways.
Now the point I’m making is that there are many news media outlets who say they don’t know what we want, we have to tell them one thing at least. That we want freedom from the politicians from the corporate ownership of their lives, we have to get the money out of Washington!That’s all I came to say.