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When Wall Street Mirrors Main Street

Oct 31, 2016
by Caroline Miller
Black Lives Matter, Demanding the Right to Bare Our Buttocks, Edwin Bendyk, Greg Farrell, James Norman, Market Financy, Network, Our Defiant Women in Black, social protest, Tea Party
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Around the world, people seem to be taking up the cry from the film, Network:  “ I’m mad as Hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.”  Whether it’s Bernie’s Millennials or Trump’s unemployed, Tea Party members, or Black Lives Matter folks, people are rising their voices to make their complaints heard. Even women in Poland, a predominately  Catholic country, are growing defiant.  When the country’s lawmakers announced they would introduce a bill to outlaw abortions, even when the mother’s health was at stake, “tens of thousands of women put on black clothes, boycotted work and staged protests.”  (“Our Defiant Women In Black,” by Edwin Bendyk, excerpted from Polityk in The Week, October 21, 2016, pg. 14.)   As a result, the bill was withdrawn.

In Victoria, Australia, the local government outlawed mooning as a form of protest.  In response, 100 protesters pledged to stand before the Victoria Parliament House on the next full moon and break the law.  (“Demanding The Right  To Bare Our Buttocks,” by James Norman, excerpted from The Sydney Morning Harold,  The Week, October 21, 2016, pg. 15.)

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Bankers have taken note of the rebelliousness abroad, particularly in the number of class action lawsuits being filed against them.  Recently, they met at Versailles to develop plans that would discourage such suits and to punish an individual bank if it broke ranks to save itself.  “They realize they are stronger together than when they splinter.” ((“Market Finance,” by Greg Farrell and Keri Geiger, Bloomberg Businessweek, Oct 12, 2016, pg.30-31.) 

Wall Street has at last fallen into step with main street.  Like the woman of Poland and the moonies of Australia, the bankers have decided they, too, don’t want to take it anymore.  Of course, one might ask how much is left for them to take?

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Portland, Oregon author Caroline Miller had distinguished careers as an educator, union president, elected official and artist/advocate.

Her play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast, was performed at the Post5 Theatre, Portland, OR, January/February 2015

Caroline published a serialized novelette, Marie Eau-Claire, on the website, The Colored Lens.  She also published the story Gustav Pavel,  a parable about ordinary lives, choice and alternate potential, on the website Fixional.co.

Caroline has published four novels

  • Ballet Noir
  • Trompe l’Oeil
  • Gothic Spring
  • Heart Land

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