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Edward Snowden is an American hero who has significantly raised public awareness about the United States' government's threat to global freedom by using extreme and illegal measures of surveillance.
Category Archives: UNEMPLOYMENT
Chevron’s Worst Year Ever, Episode 5: Nigeria
By Rebecca Tarbotton, Rainforest Action Network, Executive Director / reposted from SFGate / originally posted May 28, 2012 This has been one of the worst years ever for Chevron. From it’s ongoing massive legal losses in Ecuador, to offshore disasters … Continue reading
Posted in Big Oil, BIGOTRY, CAPITAL, CAPITALISM, CAPITALISM IS OVER!, COLONIALISM, CONSUMERISM, CORPORATE BRUTALITY, DEMOCRACY, ECONOMY, EMPIRE, EMPLOYMENT, ENVIRONMENT, Global Warming, GLOBALIZATION, Health, HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES, imperialism, INCOME INEQUALITY, INTERNATIONAL, Investment, OCCUPY THE WORLD!, POLICY, postcolonialism, RACISM, RESOURCES, UNEMPLOYMENT, Women's Rights
Tagged Big Oil, capitalism, Chevron, corporate capitalism, corporate money, dispossession, global warming, health, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Nnimmo Bassey, oil rig burning, permanent underclass, The Corporate State
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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
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
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
Posted in AUSTERITY, CAPITALISM, OCCUPY WALL STREET, OCCUPY!, THE 99%, UNEMPLOYMENT, Women's Rights
Tagged CAPITAL, capitalism, loneliness, pornography
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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
Posted in AUSTERITY, CAPITAL, CAPITALISM, CIVIL LIBERTIES, CORPORATE BRUTALITY, OCCUPY WALL STREET, OCCUPY!, RESOURCES, UNEMPLOYMENT, Unions, US Military expansioin, Wall Street, WE ARE THE 99%
Tagged austerity, CAPITAL, capitalism, corporate capitalism, DEMOCRACY, health, occupy wall street, permanent underclass, privatization, sit/lie law, The Corporate State
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Anticapitalism and Occupation
Re-posted from THECURRENTMOMENT 19 Dec The novelty of Occupy in relation to the past decades of anticapitalism has been to introduce one other way of thinking about alternatives – the camp itself as a kind of autonomous, self-sufficient community, with … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM, CIVIL LIBERTIES, OCCUPY ALL STREETS!, OCCUPY ALOHA!, OCCUPY LA!, OCCUPY OAKLAND!, OCCUPY PORTLAND!, OCCUPY SF, OCCUPY STUDENT DEBT!, OCCUPY THE WORLD!, OCCUPY WALL STREET, OCCUPY!, TAX THE RICH, THE 99%, UNEMPLOYMENT, Wall Street, WE ARE THE 99%
Tagged anticapitalism, capitalism, corporate capitalism, OCCUPY, occupy wall street, The Platypus Society, THECURRENTMOMENT
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Protest Chevron’s Tax Grab! Tomorrow 12/15 in Martinez, CA
Protest Chevron’s Tax Grab 651 Pine Street, Martinez Thursday December 15, 2011 11:30 AM – Gather and Leaflet Area 12 Noon Rally Find flyers, the Richmond City Council resolution asking Chevron to drop its property tax appeals, and more information … Continue reading
Posted in AUSTERITY, Big Oil, CAPITAL, CAPITALISM, EVIL CORPORATIONS, PROTESTS, RESOURCES, TAX THE RICH, THE 99%, UNEMPLOYMENT, WE ARE THE 99%
Tagged austerity, capitalism, Chevron, corporate capitalism, DEMOCRACY, global warming, health, Richmond, tax grab, underclass
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We are all Occupiers | Arundhati Roy
People the world over salute the Occupy movement for standing up to injustice and fighting for equality at the heart of empire Arundhati Roy · 17/11/2011 ·Text re-posted from guardian.co.uk Tuesday morning, the police cleared Zuccotti Park, but today the … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITAL, CAPITALISM, CIO Heroes, CORPORATE BRUTALITY, ECONOMY, EMPIRE, FASCISM, GLOBALIZATION, GOVERNMENT, OCCUPY THE WORLD!, THE 99%, UNEMPLOYMENT, US Military expansioin, Wall Street
Tagged arms sales, Arundhati Roy, austerity, Bail Out, capitalism, DEMOCRACY, evictions, foreclosures, globalization, The American Way of Life, The Corporate State, WARS
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SOLUTIONS: Urban Peace Movement & United Roots!
Video News Report “Swagn 4 Justice Youth Rally at Occupy Oakland” 11.1.11 from United Roots/ Oakland PAYV Acad. on Vimeo.