Lobbying Database You can use the options on the right to search through our database in several ways: search by name for a company, lobbying firm or individual lobbyist; search for the total spending by a particular industry; view the interests that lobbied a particular government agency; or search for lobbying on a general issue or specific piece of legislation. NOTE: Figures are on this page are calculations by the Center for Responsive Politics based on data from the Senate Office of Public Records. Data for the most recent year was downloaded on January 27, 2014. *The number of unique, registered lobbyists who have actively lobbied. Feel free to distribute or cite this material, but please credit the Center for Responsive Politics.
notetoanon | think globally, occupy locally Who is the 99% | notetoanon It is impossible and irresponsible to define or attempt to lead the 99% , except as individuals in collective opposition to the 1% . Only by defining the 1% can this opposition movement be understood. The 99% must be taken as anonymous and leaderless, as each individual need only share an opposition to the 1% and otherwise may differ in almost every other conceivable way. The modern conspiracy of the 1%, both planned and as product of laziness , is to rob Humanity of its diversity through their economic leadership and investment . Wall Street is a cult which worships money in the same way Pythagorean number cults once worshiped numbers, and have clearly and cleverly defined what each of our lives is worth . At the opening bell each of us is bought and sold in a low stakes video poker game, relative to the staggering income gap . Andrew Jackson [Anonymously, I’m not writing as a Marxist, but with more of a Small is Beautiful / Jeffersonian bias.] Our system is broken but fix it. Like this:
» Our Principles OCCUPY STUDENT DEBT CAMPAIGN As signatories of one these three pledges, we have engaged in an act of mutual aid, either by opting to participate in a debt strike, or by supporting one. By adding our voice to the call to strip higher education of its dependence on debt bondage, we are translating the precepts and working ideals of the Occupy movement into an initiative for action. The Four Principles/Beliefs **** Tuition-Free Public Higher Education The single, largest step we could take to alleviate future student loan debt would be to guarantee tuition-free education for students enrolled at public colleges and universities. **** Zero-Interest Student Loans Student loans are not consumer loans, and they should not be packaged as if they were consumer credit debt. ***** Private Colleges Must Open Their Books Students at private and for-profit universities and colleges have a fundamental right to know how their tuition dollars are being allocated and spent.