Researching some quotes of Howard Zinn, author of the widely used history text, The People's History of the United States, I came across a 2004 blog entry from historian Michael Kazin on George Mason University's History News Network about Zinn's book that said this:
"According to Zinn, '99 percent" of Americans share a "commonality" that is profoundly at odds with the interests of their rulers.' And knowledge of that awesome fact is 'exactly what the governments of the United States, and the wealthy elite allied to them--from the Founding Fathers to now--have tried their best to prevent.'"
Since many, many young people today are educated using Zinn's book - is this where they got the "we are the 99%" slogan?
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I think so. It was first published in 1994. Gotta be.
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