Is The USA The Only Nation in the World With Corporate Personhood? By Rob Kall Posted: 02/ 8/2012 Huffington Post It’s not surprising to learn that no nation on earth enshrines in its constitution the right of corporate personhood. Mila Versteeg, associate law professor at the University of Virginia, is probably the only More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOzjkzwsU2M&w=560&h=315] Uploaded by SolidarityMusic on Oct 24, 2011 "1%, Your money's spent to circumvent the People's intent... You jacked the rent, caused this descent 'cuz you broke our sacred covenant. I'll pop a tent and we'll pound cement. We won't back down, no we won't relent till we unfuck, to the full extent, what you did to More
A.L.E.C. exposed in Minnesota by Ann Galloway February 7, 2012 via Veterans for Peace, Minnesota Chapter 27 http://www.alecmatch.org/ This list is from A.L.E.C. exposed. I added their cities/towns in their districts and what committees they are on. So is your Rep or Senator on this list and are they serving the public or Corporations that More
The Occupy Movement and Those That Would Love It To Death Liam Fox Jan 28, 2012 NEWS JUNKIE POST While the 99% have occupied Wall Street, Wall Street has occupied the Democratic Party. The Occupation movement is currently struggling with the same challenges of any grass-roots, populous movement. Well-meaning activists that have been pursuing these More
Occupy Wall Street activists are forcibly removed by New York City Police from Liberty Plaza, 11/15/11. (photo: Lucas Jackson, Reuters) A Call for Mass Action Against Suppression of Occupy Movement By Emma Kaplan OpenMike 30 January 12 RSN Sign the Call for Mass Action hese past several months have witnessed something very different in More
WAMM members Anne and David Winkler-Morey have been biking the country since June of 2011. They have shared their observations during this trip on a blog. All the entries over the months are interesting, but this perspective, one we don’t often get, on immigration and workers rights in Texas and New Mexico, along with conditions More
Why Climate Change Will Make You Love Big Government A Secret History of Free Enterprise and the Government That Made It Possible By Christian Parenti TomDispatch Look back on 2011 and you’ll notice a destructive trail of extreme weather slashing through the year. In Texas, it was the driest year ever recorded. An epic drought there killed half More
Excellent analysis of the state of the union by Ralph Nader. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWupFxpU1yQ&w=560&h=315] Uploaded by democracynow on Jan 25, 2012 democracynow.org - Responding to President Obama's State of the Union address, longtime consumer advocate and former Presidential candidate Ralph Nader says Obama's criticism of income inequality and Wall Street excess fail to live up to his record in More
Don’t Let Occupy Be Occupied: 6 Ways to Fight the Creep to Institutionalize Crucial movements of the past with clear and radical demands suffered a diminished voice when traditional organizational standards took hold. Hopefully not Occupy. Harriet Barlow January 25, 2012 | OCCUPY WALL STREET AlterNet Photo Credit: David Shankbone It’s worth a long night’s conversation More
The Occupy Effect Katrina vanden Heuvel on January 26, 2012 The Nation I don’t know how Occupy Wall Street will impact the 2012 election, but one thing seems pretty clear: it’s changed the national conversation. A few short months ago, the corporate media and inside-the-Beltway chatter was all debt and deficits, all the time. More
An Iraq Vet’s Journey From Wall Street to OWS Derek McGee January 25, 2012 This article appeared in the February 13, 2012 edition of The Nation. An American flag flies over the empty Occupy Wall Street Encampment at Zuccotti Park as dawn breaks, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) In late More
