G-20 deserves better protesters
April 4th, 2009
A great age of protest should be dawning. The global mismanagement of the financial system has led to a deep recession. Intellectual paralysis has gripped the authorities and their policy response has been risky.
After such failure, the political leaders gathered in London for the G-20 conference deserve a serious challenge. Sadly, all they are getting are the senseless slogans of a hippie festival.
The manifesto of the G-20 Meltdown group, which managed to collect a scraggly band of a few thousand malcontents on Wednesday, borrowed a piece of contemporary rhetorical vacuity from President Barack Obama.
But their "Yes we can" answered questions that were depressingly na
Filed under: money by Specialist