Category Archives: CAPITALISM

Anonymous Message To Monsanto; We fight for farmers!

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Corporations Are Not People

This week marks the second anniversary of the infamous Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. FEC.  In a nutshell, Citizens United declared that corporations are people, and money is speech.  This opened the floodgates for unlimited corporate cash in U.S. … Continue reading

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A week of cognitive dissonance and direct action

What do we do when the government shockingly proves it already has the power to do one day what we were opposing the prior day? It is more than disquieting to see the government brutally illustrating the fact that the … Continue reading

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Capitalism and Loneliness: Why Pornography Is a Multibillion-Dollar Industry

By: Harriet Fraad and Tess Fraad Wolff Re-posted from Truthout | Op-Ed  Massive social changes in the US labor force and in commerce have transformed the economy and powerfully affected personal relationships. Since 1970, we have changed from being a … Continue reading

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Martin Luther King Jr. on Capitalism, etc

“What I’m saying to you this morning is that communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but … Continue reading

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300 Chinese Workers at Apple/ Sony / Microsoft Global Partner Foxconn ‘Threaten Mass Suicide’ At XBox Plant

By Michael Rundle HUFFINGTON POST Around 300 Chinese workers who manufacture XBox consoles took to a factory roof and threatened bosses with mass suicide over a dispute about pay, unconfirmed reports have claimed. The workers were employed at the Foxconn … Continue reading

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Wall Street Whines for Bonuses

By Jillian Berman HUFFINGTON POST For some on Wall Street, a less-than-stellar bonus is simply too much to bear. Brokerage executives at one Wall Street firm, Jefferies Group, have threatened to leave the company if their bonuses aren’t up to … Continue reading

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Conspiracy Theory Rock By Robert Smigel

A Banned Segment from Saturday Night Live The 1998 Robert Smigel animated short film “Conspiracy Theory Rock”, part of a March 1998 “TV Funhouse” segment, has been removed from all subsequent airings of the Saturday Night Live episode where it … Continue reading

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Occupying a New Reality

One of the things I’ve loved the most about the Occupy movement is the position that we just don’t give a fuck what political analysts, pundits, and “experts” think or project about the “strategies” and tactics that this global revolution … Continue reading

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Can Gift Exchange Fix the Problems of Capitalism and Rebuild our Lost Community?

        The reclamation of the gift-based commonwealth not only hastens the collapse of a growth-dependent money system, it also mitigates its severity. Re-posted from AlterNet, January 1, 2012 Wherever I go and ask people what is missing … Continue reading

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Winning Moments for the 99% in 2011

Re-posted from AlterNet / By Sarah Jaffe / December 26, 2011 This year saw working people around the world begin to stand up and fight back. Ten organizers share their most inspiring moments from the U.S.’s year of action. 2011 … Continue reading

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Sam Vaughan’s Che-huahua!

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Economic Hit Man Speaking Freely: John Perkins (1 of 4)

This is one of the best analyses of corporatocracy I’ve heard – I highly recommend!   For many years John Perkins was an “economic hit man” in the world of international finance; a function he performed by persuading Third World … Continue reading

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Economic Hit Man Speaking Freely: John Perkins (2 of 4)

This is one of the best analyses of corporatocracy I’ve heard – I highly recommend!   For many years John Perkins was an “economic hit man” in the world of international finance; a function he performed by persuading Third World … Continue reading

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Economic Hit Man Speaking Freely: John Perkins (3 of 4)

This is one of the best analyses of corporatocracy I’ve heard – I highly recommend!   For many years John Perkins was an “economic hit man” in the world of international finance; a function he performed by persuading Third World … Continue reading

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Economic Hit Man Speaking Freely: John Perkins (4 of 4)

This is one of the best analyses of corporatocracy I’ve heard – I highly recommend! For many years John Perkins was an “economic hit man” in the world of international finance; a function he performed by persuading Third World countries … Continue reading

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The Decline of Labour Unions in the US and Its Devastating Effect on The Economy

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The Growing Militarisation of Police in the U.S. and Around the World

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OCCUPY ART!

It’s encouraging to see a momentum building in the art world in support of and/or response to the Occupy movement. When we first launched CIO! in July 2010 we encountered a good deal of ambivalence and resistance from the art … Continue reading

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Occupy Y’All Street: Three Generations Try To Escape Poverty Through Occupy Columbia

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