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Hope after Citizens United: Russ Feingold speaking in Eugene on Monday Nov 7 Corporations, legal fictions, run your lives and your government thanks to the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision. With Reagan, taxation shifted from corporate to individual. Neoliberal supply-side strategists fail in economic growth and employment. Time for Plan B, alternative economics, reduced working hours, person-oriented work, labor-intensive investment, redistribution, community centers, free Internet books and soft power! Russ Feingold, former senator from Wisconsin, wi...
Posted: Thu, Nov 3, 2011 10:55am PDT
Ports Significantly Disrupted Today, They Shut Down Tonight Despite push-back from union leaders and the management at the Port of Oakland, rank and file longshoremen are adamant that many longshoremen decided not to work today and disrupted work at the Port of Oakland today, in solidarity with the general strike called by the Occupy Oakland protesters...
Posted: Wed, Nov 2, 2011 5:46pm PDT
Video: Robert Pollin on Occupy Movement and Demands Social justice, solidarity and sharing open doors while unrestrained deregulation leads to exploding inequality and generalized insecurity. Unlike a chair, an idea can be shared by a whole people....
Posted: Wed, Nov 2, 2011 2:48pm PDT
Whole Foods Market Supports Strikers Whole Foods Market in Oakland says they support employees participating in the general strike....
Posted: Wed, Nov 2, 2011 2:11pm PDT
Some Economists Got It Right - Who Are These Economists? Twill 14: The Impossible Magazine is a tour de force. Alternative economics emphasizes reduced working hours, investment in the infrastructure, person-oriented work, labor-intensive investment, redistribution, community centers, free Internet books and soft power....
Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2011 6:31am PDT
Bay Area General Strikes: 1930s and Now For the upcoming Oakland General Strike this Nov. 2, 2011. This is a history of the General Strikes that happened around the country in the 1930s....
Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2011 2:37am PDT
US Finds Culprit Critical thinking and cultural shock have the power to turn the world upside down (like Jesus' parables and zen koans). Trivializing systemic/structural economic problems as motivational, psychological, bumps in the road or industrial accidents is a perversion like normalizing war and equating offense and defense. Destruction of language leads to cynicism and generalized mistrust....
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2011 7:26am PDT
Defend Occupy Oakland With The Muscle Of Organized Labor-Statement Of ILWU Members & Reti ILWU Members and Retirees Are calling for full labor support for Occupy Oakland...
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2011 6:00am PDT
Double Talker SEIU1021 SF Political Director Gabriel Haaland Pushes Prop C Pension Concess Double talker SEIU 1021 SF political director Gabriel Haaland pretends to defend SF city workers by pushing concessions in Prop C. Anti-labor Prop C attacks lower paid city worker pensions including attacking labor representation on the Health Service Board. SEIU 1021 Haaland manipulated and coerced SF City Museum workers to support the concession deal at an SF SEIU 1021 COPE meeting....
Posted: Wed, Oct 26, 2011 4:59pm PDT
When Financial Management Paralyzes Democracy The 2010 Attac Bank Tribunal in Berlin was a civil society legal proceeding that decried the speculative business model: take excessive risk and burden taxpayers with the costs. Rating agencies should be public. Banks that are too big to fail are too big to exist and should be broken up. The government is culpable for bailing out banks and abandoning the real economy. The Occupy movement is the protest of the younger generation against the financial crisis that became a global economic crisis...
Posted: Wed, Oct 26, 2011 5:06am PDT
Labor, act to defend the right to protest Many unions have come out in support of the right of the occupy movement to hold their encampments. Perhaps most powerfully the Teamsters and ILWU. Now is the time in Oakland to see paper resolutions turn to action. The unions have the numbers and most importantly the social power, to back off the capitalists state powers. The unions could be at the core of a protest that leads to the firm re establishment of Occupy Oakland in the face of the recent police attack.
Many unions have come out in...
Posted: Tue, Oct 25, 2011 6:35am PDT
Occupy World - The Protest Against the Financial System Intensifies Since the beginning of the financial crisis, governments from Berlin to Washington solemnly vowed to regulate the financial system more strongly, close the casino on the financial markets and call to account financially the unrestrained speculators for their inflicted damage. Good roaring, lions! But no deeds followed the words. The "monster" cannot be tamed with fancy speeches and declarations of intent. The financial markets drive politics. Trust in democracy is lost more and more....
Posted: Mon, Oct 24, 2011 6:46am PDT
The Future of the #Occupy Movement: Solidarity and Escalation A month after it began with a few hundred people marching on Wall Street, the #Occupy movement has grown to include tens of thousands of participants throughout the country and has captured headlines around the world. If it has not yet succeeded beyond its wildest dreams, that’s only because its participants have dreamed big: imagining a sustained popular uprising that could force fundamental changes in our political and economic system—ones that could end corporate dominance and promote real...
Posted: Sat, Oct 22, 2011 7:40am PDT
Generation Written Off Masses of young people are no longer reserved about a social system that writes them off and denies them work and existential security. "Prosperity for all" is no longer a promise of the dominant economy. "The left is right" means the global finance-driven market in its neoliberal state proves to be as brutal as the anti-capitalists have always described....
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2011 8:18am PDT
Patricia M - The Real Reason UTLA Substitute Teacher Was Fired-Exposed Corruption And Priv Patricia McAllister, a substitute UTLA teacher was fired by LA privatizer and corrupt privatizer operator UTLA Superintendent John Deasy for "anti-semitic" comments. The real reasons for the firing become clear in this video....
Posted: Thu, Oct 20, 2011 8:47pm PDT
Let's end corruption - starting with Wall Street "It has been left to a protest occupation to say it: Wall Street, a global symbol of wealth, has plenty to teach the world about corruption."...
Posted: Thu, Oct 20, 2011 7:08am PDT
Performance-Oriented Society and Basic Income The acquisition and accumulation of wealth are based on many natural and social conditions, Many societies and generations worked so today's possibilities of acquisition exist. General civilization techniques and cultural talents grew over centuries. The so-called performance justice is often only a veil for great injustices....
Posted: Wed, Oct 19, 2011 6:52am PDT
OWS Must Engage In Non-violent Civil Disobedient Traffic Blocking Now! OWS Must Engage In Non-violent Civil Disobedient Traffic Blocking Now!
http://occupywallst.org/forum/ows-must-engage-non-violent-civil-disobedient-traf/...
Posted: Mon, Oct 17, 2011 12:55pm PDT
Six Proposals for Helping the 99% Solidarity, social justice and sharing open doors while tax cuts for the super-rich only lead to exploding inequality. double standards and cynicism. Access could replace excess. The empire could be superseded by the republic.
Public necessities (housing, education, work, health care, food, airwaves, water and the air) must remain public rights and not private privileges....
Posted: Fri, Oct 14, 2011 6:33am PDT
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