Where's the Protest at Home?

Robert Kuttner
Co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect
Posted: January 30
HuffPost

On Saturday, I crossed paths with a few hundred protesters marching from Cambridge to Boston to call for the resignation of Egyptian President Mubarak. By appearance, they were a mixture of Arab-Americans, locals, and people from assorted other backgrounds.

The loud, peaceful march was almost startling, because you hardly see street protests in America these days, even in liberal Massachusetts. The Boston Globe quoted one Egyptian-American woman saying that middle class anger in Egypt has swelled with unemployment and inflation.

"You can't live a fairly decent life without being rich," she said.

In 2011, you might say the same about downwardly mobile America.

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