We the People: Your Voice in Our Government. Third Party Debates. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!
, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, as we continue our "Expanding the Debate" series. As President Obama and Mitt Romney debated at Hofstra University on Long Island, we are now going to include the voices of three presidential candidates shut out of last night’s debate: Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party, Rocky Anderson of the Justice Party and Virgil Goode of the Constitution Party. Voter suppression in states across the country could affect millions - Video on mnsbc.com. Www.levin.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/supporting/2011/PSI_WallStreetCrisis_041311.pdf.
Father Nathan Monk at Pensacola City Council. 100 Million Poor People In America And 39 Other Facts About Poverty That Will Blow Your Mind. Every single day more Americans fall into poverty.
This should deeply alarm you no matter what political party you belong to and no matter what your personal economic philosophy is. Right now, approximately 100 million Americans are either "poor" or "near poor". For a lot of people "poverty" can be a nebulous concept, so let's define it. The poverty level as defined by the federal government in 2010 was $11,139 for an individual and $22,314 for a family of four. Could you take care of a family of four on less than $2000 a month?
CNBC learns not to 'mess with' Ron Paul, followers. Ron Paul Message to Occupy Wall Street LETS END THE FED! Center for a Stateless Society. The Distributist Review. 10 Steps We Can Take Right Now to Build the New Economy. There is No Substitute for Organizing: How Unions Might Help Win Future Battles. Is It Hard for You to Say No to Sweets and Temptation? You May Be Suffering From "Ego Depletion" Job Insecurity: It's the Disease of the 21st Century. OWS: Noam Chomsky on Occupy's potential now, moving forward after their initial tactic. COVER UP: Behind the Iran-Contra Affair. Usfreedom22's Channel. Exclusive: Homeland Security Kept Tabs on Occupy Wall Street.
Www1.rollingstone.com/extras/13637_DHS IP Special.pdf. Occupation Nation. Movement "I DON'T PAY" is spreading across Europe (english subs) In a 325-Page SEC Letter, Occupy's Finance Gurus Take on Wall Street Lobbyists. Yesterday, a group affiliated with Occupy Wall Street submitted an astounding comment letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Point by point, it methodically challenges the arguments of finance industry lobbyists who want to water down last year's historic Dodd-Frank Wall Street reforms. The lobbyists have been using the law's official public comment period to try to kneecap the reforms, and given how arcane financial regulation can be, they might get away with it. But Occupy the SEC is fighting fire with fire, and in so doing, defying stereotypes of the Occupy movement.
Its letter explains: Occupy the SEC is a group of concerned citizens, activists, and professionals with decades of collective experience working at many of the largest financial firms in the industry. Proprietary trading by large-scale banks was a principal cause of the recent financial crisis, and, if left unchecked, it has the potential to cause even worse crises in the future. Keep Wall Street Occupied (Part 1) A Serious Occupation: Workers Occupy Goose Island Factory Armando Robles, a worker at Serious Materials and president of UE Local 1110, raises his fist inside the occupied factory. Photo by Aaron Cynic. A little over three years since the Republic Windows and Doors workers in Chicago won back their pay and benefits from the closing company by occupying their Goose Island factory, they are at it again. The workers are occupying the same factory, now owned by Serious Materials, to protest being laid off without notice after the closure of the factory.
“We are not leaving until we are satisfied,” Melvin Maclin, a worker at Serious Materials and vice president of UE Local 1110, told the Occupied Chicago Tribune . Arise Chicago issued an action alert announcing the action: UE [United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America] union is occupying Serious Materials factory, the former Republic Windows, right now . Pizza was delivered to the occupying workers, but met with some resistance from Chicago police present. Updated: 9:40 p.m. Occupy Portland Outsmarts Police, Creating Blueprint for Other Occupations. Photo by Paul by Lester Macgurdy The Portland Occupation stumbled upon a tactical innovation regarding occupying public spaces.
Occupy Winston-Salem. Debt strike. Gan Golan as the Master of Degrees. From the book The Adventures of Unemployed Man by Gan Golan and Erich Origen. Photo by Friedel Fisher. If you owe the bank $100, that’s your problem; if you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.” John Paul Getty To fight back against financial exploitation when many people are crushed by debt. What does non-cooperation with our own oppression look like? With wages in many countries stagnant since the 1970s, people have increasingly turned to debt financing to pay for education, housing and health care.
Most people feel obliged to pay back loans no matter the cost, or fear the lasting consequences of default, but the financial crisis has begun to change that. Enter the , an experiment in collective bargaining for debtors.