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“Die Gedanken Sind Frei,” A Dedication to Norman Finkelstein
Die gedanken sind frei
My thoughts freely flower
Die gedanken sind frei
My thoughts give me power
No scholar can map them
No hunter can trap them
No man can deny
Die gedanken sind freiI think as I please
And this gives me pleasure
My conscience decrees
This right I must treasure
My thoughts will not cater
To duke or dictator
No man can deny
Die gedanken sind freiTyrants can take me
And throw me in prison
My thoughts will burst forth
Like blossoms in season
Foundations may crumble
And structures may tumble
But free men shall cry
Die gedanken sind frei
A MUST-SEE for everyone in America who’s got any questions about what OWS is really all about.
How Inequality Has Soared in the US
If you want to get some idea of why the 99 per cent movement has attracted so much support in the US, just take a look at this graph. Over the last thirty years, the share of income taken by the top 1 per cent of Americans has risen from 10 per cent to 23.5 per cent . . . As you’ll notice, from the 1950s onwards, income distribution in the US remained broadly stable until the Thatcher-Reagan revolution. The neoliberal policies pursued by the Reagan administration – tax cuts for the wealthy (the top rate of tax was reduced from 50 per cent to 28 per cent), deregulation and privatisation, led to a dramatic rise in inequality.
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Quote: Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D., (born December 7, 1928)
American Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Professor (Emeritus)
Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, Author, and Activist
The reality is that under capitalist conditions–meaning maximization of short-term gain–you’re ultimately going to destroy the environment: the only question is when.
Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky,(The New York Press, 2002), 58.
Quote: Michael Parenti
Michael Parenti, Ph.D., (born 1933) Political Scientist,
Political Scientist, Historian, Author, Lecturer, and Culture Critic
Wealth is pursued without moral restraint. The very rich try to crush anyone who resists their endless, heartless, unprincipled accumulation. Like any addiction, money is pursued in that obsessive, amoral, singleminded way, revealing a total disregard for what is right or wrong, just or unjust, an indifference to other considerations and other people’s interests–and even one’s own interests should they go beyond feeding the addiction.
Thus it is necessary and desirable to have laws to protect the environment, workers’ lives, and consumer health because big business has a total indifference to such things, and–to the extent that they cut into profits–an outright hostility toward regulations on behalf of the public interest. We sometimes forget how profoundly immoral is cooperate power.
Michael Parenti, Blackshirts & Redshirts, (City Light Books, 1997), 154.
Banking Has Become an Oligopoly Instead of a Competitive Business — And That’s Really Bad News for Us 99%
Banking is not really a competitive industry. In reality, it’s more like an oligopoly — a scenario in which an industry is controlled by a small number of firms . . . Because they aren’t really a competitive industry, they can get away with huge cost v. returns gaps . . . We’re all familiar with the term “Too Big To Fail,” which sums up what happens nowadays to the biggest banks even when they commit fraud against consumers, poison them with toxic products, grossly neglect their duties to shareholders, and blow up the economy. They are rescued with public money . . . The alternative is to find a credit union or small bank, if for no other reason than to give your support to local businesses and to invest in Main Street. Read more . . .
Documentary: “The Canary Effect”
This documentary is a MUST WATCH!
The grim legacy of America’s treatment of its native peoples is explored in detail in this documentary. Filmmakers Robin Davey and Yellow Thunder Woman take the perspective that if one is to define “genocide” as the a deliberate effort by a government to exterminate a people, then the United States is clearly guilty of the crime given their actions against America’s indigenous population over the past 300 years . . .
WE ARE THE 99 PERCENT
We are the 99 percent. We are getting kicked out of our homes. We are forced to choose between groceries and rent. We are denied quality medical care. We are suffering from environmental pollution. We are working long hours for little pay and no rights, if we’re working at all. We are getting nothing while the other 1 percent is getting everything. We are the 99 percent.
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Quote: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945)
32d President of the United States (1933–1945)
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
Always Question Authority 