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Category Archives: Activism & Advocacy
Troy Davis Memorial Library
Take a look at the protesters in Lincoln Park in Portland, in their tented library, which they have called the Troy Davis Memorial Library.
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Robert Reich at OCCUPY SF: “You Can’t Stop This Once It’s Started”
Tax Cuts: Wall Street’s Gain Main Street’s Pain
Sources:
Mother Jones: Charts: 6 Big Economic Myths, Debunked
Corporate profits: Bureau of Economic Analysis
Unemployement rate: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Gov. Scott Walker Gets Checked, Mic Checked!
The beauty of this is the witnessing of the involuntary transfer of authority by the right-wing reactionaries, and the priceless look on their faces upon realization that their authority had just been stripped from them. That was pure poetry in motion!
Occupy Wall Street — “We Are What Democracy Looks Like!”
It’s called Occupy Wall Street for a reason: it’s about the MONEY, stupid! The money that has put profits before people and left human values to be measured by price alone. The money that (with the complicity of the Supreme Court) has replaced votes (one for each of us) with dollars (one for the 99 and 99 for the one!) turning democracy into plutocracy. . . Look at the process, which is a bold attempt to embody a “horizontal” paradigm of participatory engagement as an alternative to “vertical” big league moneyball democracy.
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Republicans 2012
Top 1% Average Income vs. Bottom 90%
Eight Quick Ways to Differentiate between the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street
The Big Banks are Terrified – We are Winning
We have had enough – and we’re not going to take it any more. It is up to us to go back on November 7th, and November 8th and every day after that. Already, Move Your Money on Nov 5th, has morphed into Move Your Money Mondays. It is a terrifying prospect for the banks. They will tell you that all of this doesn’t matter. After all, they don’t need no stinking customers. They are sitting on an unprecedented mountain of cash. They don’t make money off deposits. This can’t hurt them, this won’t hurt them. They are lying:
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Always Question Authority 