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Category Archives: CORPORATE BRUTALITY
What Kind of Country …
This American Life March 2, 2012 All across the country right now, local and state governments are finding they can’t pay their bills. Schools are losing teachers, street lights are going dark, garbage is piling up in public parks, and … Continue reading
Dilemmas: Smaller Bonuses for the Rich 1% and Motel Room Homes for Those The Rich Have Screwed
COMPANION PIECE: How The Rich Are Living with Smaller Bonuses & How Those They’ve Screwed Over Are Barely Managing To Survive: Wall Street Bonus Withdrawal (1% Bonus Withdrawal) By Max Abelson Bloomberg Florida Homeless Students Increase (Barely Surviving) By Christine Armario Huffington … Continue reading
Wells Fargo Customer 1994 – 2012
Today I finished the process of transferring my $$$ to a credit union and closing out my account at Wells Fargo at the Berkeley/Elmwood branch that I opened the account in September 1994. In addition, I delivered the following letter to … Continue reading
Elaine Brown Feb 6, 2012 Anti-Repression Rally
Words of wisdom from Elaine Brown at Occupy Oakland’s rally yesterday. Why is it that when the United States steps in and enacts extreme violence on its “enemies” (including innocent civilians) and/or those deemed “terrorists” it’s awarded almost half of … Continue reading
Is US democracy being bought and sold?
The Stream Al Jazeera Has money corrupted US politics beyond repair? The landmark Supreme Court case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruled that individuals working through corporations, unions, or independent political action committees, known as SuperPACs, could make unlimited … Continue reading
Working Poor: Almost Half Of U.S. Households Live One Crisis From The Bread Line
Don’t be fooled by the latest numbers released by the Labor Department reporting that unemployment has dropped to 8.3% due to a hiring surge … or the idea that the country’s problem is just a “crisis of confidence.” This is … Continue reading
Occupy stands firm – solidarity with Longview continues!
OCCUPY THE EGT! Don’t stop mobilizing until the workers declare victory! From Occupy The EGT: As you may have heard, EGT and ILWU are back at the bargaining table and scab work at the Longview grain terminal has stopped. Did … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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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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
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