Occupy DC doesn’t seem to think much about what the appointed Congressional Super Committee is (or isn’t) doing just up the road from their camp at Freedom Plaza. The protestors have sent notice they plan to hold their own Super Committee public hearing on Wednesday “for the 99 percent that will examine how to create a fair economy for all Americans.”
The ‘occupied’ protestors in major cities across the U.S. have drawn plenty of support for their movement, but they have also been criticized by some observers for a seeming lack of direction or solutions to their woes. Now, it seems, those criticisms may be addressed.
The Occupied Super Committee Hearing for the 99 percent “will examine critical issues facing the economy and the federal budget” and will include testimony from people including Andrew Fieldhouse of the Economic Policy Institute, Carl Conetta of the Project on Defense Alternatives and Kenneth Peres, an economist with the Communications Workers of America.
The committee says it will “put forward proposals that should be enacted to fairly fix the economy” and post them online at OccupyWashingtonDC.org by Nov. 16.
“These proposals should not be considered our demands as our demands are much more transformative than a short-term fix of the economy and budget,” the groups added in a statement.
