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Chris Hedges: The Politicians Who Destroyed Our Democracy Want Us to Vote for Them to Save It

These establishment politicians and their appointed  judges promulgated laws that permitted the top 1 percent to loot $54 trillion from the bottom 90 percent, from 1975 to 2022, at a rate of $2.5 trillion a year, according to a study by the RAND corporation. The fertile ground of our political, economic, cultural and social wreckage spawned an array of neo-fascists, con artists, racists, criminals, charlatans, conspiracy theorists, right-wing militias and demagogues that will soon take power.

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Martin Luther King: Breaking the Silence, Riverside Speech

MLK's unheeded prophecy that has come true: "The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit, and if we ignore this sobering reality…and if we ignore this sobering reality, we will find ourselves organizing “clergy and laymen concerned” committees for the next generation. They will be concerned about Guatemala — Guatemala and Peru. They will be concerned about Thailand and Cambodia. They will be concerned about Mozambique and South Africa. We will be marching for these and a dozen other names and attending rallies without end, unless there is a significant and profound change in American life and policy."

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That's the Challenge! by Bruce Gagnon

We need conversion, and conversion campaigners, to be organizing particularly in communities where manifestations of the military production system are located. By Bruce Gagnon  Organizing Notes  July 25, 2017 'That's the Challenge' In early July Roy Pingel and his son visited our house here in Bath.  Artist and housemate Brown Lethem lived in New York More

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That’s the Challenge! by Bruce Gagnon

We need conversion, and conversion campaigners, to be organizing particularly in communities where manifestations of the military production system are located. By Bruce Gagnon  Organizing Notes  July 25, 2017 'That's the Challenge' In early July Roy Pingel and his son visited our house here in Bath.  Artist and housemate Brown Lethem lived in New York More

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We Will Never Pay, So Stop Harassing Us> Cindy Sheehan

Cindy Sheehan. (photo: Mike Kepka/SF Gate) We Will Never Pay, So Stop Harassing Us By Cindy Sheehan, Mike and Friends Blog    10 November 11   Reader Supported News  In this open letter to the IRS, Ms. Sheehan tells Federal tax collectors that she refuses to pay ‘your bill’ for the cost of the war More

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