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workers action
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13.01.2012 22:16 |
Theory and Practice in Occupy
For a movement that started with one strategy and a couple of slogans, Occupy has preformed brilliantly. Having based itself on the examples of Egypt and Wisconsin, the Occupy Movement has raised the political consciousness of millions and created a large layer of new activists. But the uninterrupted string of successes of Egypt and Tunisia haven't materialized for Occupy. We're in a lull period. Next steps are being considered and some tactics are being re-thought.
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Gerd Zeitler
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13.01.2012 06:10 |
Neoliberal Vicious Circle
"One of the peculiarities of the neoliberal globalization is that its protagonists seek to fight the devastations — for which they bear responsibility — by the same means that cause the devastations. They call these means »market liberalization« or simply »liberalization«. They refer to the deregulation of national markets..."
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joe anybody (re posting from e-mail)
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10.01.2012 07:12 |
Occupy the Courts 1.20.11
Many local Occupy groups are cooperating with Move to Amend's "Occupy the Courts" action on January 20th (and 21st in Salem) challenging the Supreme Court's string of decisions - beginning in 1886 - according "personhood" to corporations.
In Portland: Start gathering at 11:30.
Rally starts at 12 Noon
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Portland City Council Voting on Corporate Pershonhood Resolution
This Thursday (January 12) at 2:00 pm the Portland City Council will be voting on a resolution urging the Oregon congressional delegation to amend the U.S. Constitution to address corporate personhood and reverse the Citizens United decision.
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Lloyd Hart
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09.01.2012 10:35 |
Obama's Transfer Of The Public's Equity To The 1%
So they steal your house and will now rent it back to you at outrageous artificially inflated rent while still taking 50% of your deflated income to earn a profit margin off what used to be your equity.
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Gabriela Simon
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09.01.2012 07:45 |
Shock Strategy for Europe
The cocktail of social cuts, deregulation and privatization struck societies like a blow. Naomi Klein rightly described as "crisis opportunism" what is passed off as crisis management. The economy hit the wall; social securities were taken away. The debt problems are used as "timely opportunities" to gain new ground for the free market.
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Joe Anybody
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06.01.2012 08:11 |
Video: We Are The 99 Percent
A music video compilation from Occupy Portland 2011. This is a montage of video and pictures from just some of the protesting at Occupy Portland last year.
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Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh
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06.01.2012 06:47 |
Smart Meter Replacement Program In California Has Begun
California, always ahead in matters of sense and sensibility, has begun replacing "smart" meters due to the many health related complaints that have been coming in to PGE. Smart meters, like the ones we have in Portland, emit constant bursts of high frequency pulsed microwave radiation at 487 times the FCC limit. How do they get away with this?? Nobody in Oregon seems to care enough to scream at the PUC for installing this dangerous life threatening technology. Smart meters are about surveillance and graft and racketeering. The money made (and paid) for these is in the billions.
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Video: Rally Supporting Portland City Council Resolution to End Corporate Personhood
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Portland Action Lab
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03.01.2012 15:07 |
F29- Shut Down the Corporations
On February 29th, we will reclaim our future from the 1%. We will shut down the corporations and recreate our democracy.
Join us! Leap into action! Reclaim our future! Shut down the corporations!
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Montana High Court Says 'Citizens United' Does Not Apply In Big Sky State
Montana's Supreme Court has issued a stunning rebuke to the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in 2010 that infamously decreed corporations had constitutional rights to directly spend money on 'independent expenditures' in campaigns.
 link to www.alternet.org
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Brent Herbert
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31.12.2011 21:42 |
Analysis: The Rise of the Global Police State
What would be the inevitable outcome of the revolution of the Middle Class?
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Ben Waiting (reposting email)
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31.12.2011 12:16 |
End corporate personhood - Rally/Hearing Wed. January 4th at Portland City Hall
In Wednesday, January 4th, join the Alliance for Democracy and Move to Amend Portland chapter and our allies as we rally outside City Hall to support and strengthen the proposed city resolution supporting a federal constitutional amendment to End Corporate Personhood. You can view the Mayor's proposed resolution here.
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David Delk
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28.12.2011 15:07 |
Petition to COP: pass resolution against corporate personhood
Move to Amend Portland (www.moveetoamendpdx.org) has created an on-line petition to show support for Portland city council to pass a resolution advocating for passage of constitutional amendment to eliminate corporate personhood and make clear that money is not speech.
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workers action
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25.12.2011 18:52 |
Uniting Occupy and Labor Over Health Care
Politicians are attacking Medicare and Medicaid on all sides--Democrats and Republicans alike. Obama's national health care bill will slash hundreds of billions from Medicare over the next decade, an act supported by so-called "progressive" Democrats. Soon after this "victory" Obama created the Super Committee to balance the budget, which included automatic "triggers"-- if no decision was reached -- that are now slated to cut $600 billion more from Medicare.
On a state-by-state basis, Medicaid -- a program that provides health care to the poor -- is being cut in virtually every state, where they are using their manufactured budget crises as an excuse. This under-funding of Medicaid has created a lack of doctors for patients, according to USA today:
"With a shortage of doctors...[Medicaid] patients have little choice but to use hospital emergency rooms for more routine care." (July 5th, 2011).
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Den Mark, Vancouver WA
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21.12.2011 09:43 |
Tim DeCristopher
obama/holder department of injustice
202-514-2000
ask for public comment line
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Julia Friedrichs
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21.12.2011 07:45 |
The Worthless Value System of the Financial Branch
The Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman wrote: "In a free economic system, there is only a single responsibility for the actors. Businesses must be carried out for the greatest possible profitability." To believers in the self-healing market, questions about guilt, humility and pangs of conscience must sound like questions from another world.
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Just a little video to remind you of your "debts" to the owning class:
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Eric Toussaint
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20.12.2011 06:26 |
"The illegimate debts must be cancelled"
A neoliberal tax policy followed for thirty years drastically lowered the taxes paid by private corporations on their profits, above all by big business.. The debts are not an incomprehensible plague but rather the result of a conscious and completely unjust policy.. During the first months Roosevelt raised the tax rate of the highest income brackets to 90%.
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marktorakle.com
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18.12.2011 16:51 |
Video: Boehner presented with golden calf
Occupy demonstrators carried a golden calf to the US capitol. Social justice and self-criticism are our life-blood. Justice is mocked when the interests of short-term profit, banks and speculation are enforced against the survival of humans and nature.
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Sudhama Ranganathan
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17.12.2011 05:54 |
Their Priorities
With election season upon us it's very easy to see the impact special interests have on our nation's politicians. Elected leaders in Washington make this fact especially obvious to see, though not purposefully. At this point, not only is it visible in the president, but after so many debates it is starting to become evident on the part of Republicans. Money and power guides not just who they are polite to, but also what promises they make and the flip flops they make while still campaigning even. One moment they may say something leading voters to believe they stand firmly against an issue, and later on they may soften their rhetoric on the issue or information emerges either contradicting the initial statement or placing what they said in a hypocritical light.
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Rocky Anderson and The Justice Party in 2012
Rocky Anderson, former mayor of conservative Salt Lake City, is running for president on The Justice Party. He decries how Obushka has "completely betrayed his base."
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Den Mark, Vancouver WA
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15.12.2011 16:46 |
It's OVER? & We Are To Be PROUD?
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workers action
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14.12.2011 13:07 |
Reform vs. Revolution Within Occupy
Many Occupiers have expressed a valid concern over the Obama campaign attempting to hijack the Occupy movement. To avoid this pitfall some Occupiers advocate more radical methods, ideas and strategies. But sometimes these tactics create new problems. While swerving safely left of the Democrats' grasp, some Occupiers have overreached and exited the orbit of most working people, who would otherwise naturally gravitate to the Occupy movement. Some Occupiers dismiss this new worry, viewing the Occupy movement as an unstoppable social movement.
This raises the question: is Occupy a real social movement or one still struggling to be born? The answer to this question helps determine what strategy the Occupy movement should take, what demands it should fight for and the level of confrontation of its actions. If you believe that the Occupy movement is still struggling for a mass base, as this writer does, then you'll likely agree that Occupy needs to immediately focus on broadening its base and wage militant struggles for demands that will bring in the wider working class community.
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2012 Euro Memorandum
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14.12.2011 06:17 |
Alternative for the Euro Zone
In a new study, leftist economists from a dozen EU countries criticize the policy of the German government in the Euro crisis. Its analysis and the proposed solutions are wrong. Bailing out the big banks in the fall of 2008, the 2009 collapse of economic output and the enormous decline in tax revenues tore deep holes in the budget. The state deficits are not the cause.
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Jim Lockhart
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13.12.2011 11:17 |
KGW Poll on Support for West Coast Port Protest
KGW is polling viewers on t her reaction to Occupy Portland's solidarity protest on the Port of Portland.
So far the numbers look pretty dismal. Out of 5500 or so votes:
Yes 14%
No 82%
Don't Care 4%
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Stefan Fuchs and Martin Wolf
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13.12.2011 07:24 |
Beyond the Homo Economicus
The Homo economicus is a kind of calculating machine on two legs who incessantly calculates personal benefits and profit. His conduct follows the model of rational expectations and assumes all other persons will follow this model.. Incursions of the state should make possible more social equality. Finance-driven capitalism is based on myths and false models.
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Dana Gabriel
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12.12.2011 05:31 |
The Pretext for a North American Homeland Security Perimeter
A North American Homeland Security perimeter goes well beyond keeping people safe from any perceived threats. It is a means to secure trade, resources, as well as corporate interests and is a pretext for control over the continent. Ultimately, the U.S. wants the final say on who is allowed to enter and who is allowed to leave.
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False Climate Solutions Drive Land Grabs in Africa
An unsavory but major element to the land grab phenomenon in Africa is the "green investment" stance of agrofuel and agroforestry producers. Even though the need to end dependence on fossil fuels is compelling, this idea as well as carbon trade and carbon credits are being used as a "green cover" to accelerate land acquisitions in Africa.
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Many local Occupy groups are cooperating with Move to Amend's "Occupy the Courts" action on January 20th (and 21st in Salem) challenging the Supreme Court's string of decisions - beginning in 1886 - according "personhood" to corporations.
A music video compilation from Occupy Portland 2011.
California, always ahead in matters of sense and sensibility, has begun replacing "smart" meters due to the many health related complaints that have been coming in to PGE. Smart meters, like the ones we have in Portland, emit constant bursts of high frequency pulsed microwave radiation at 487 times the FCC limit. How do they get away with this?? Nobody in Oregon seems to care enough to scream at the PUC for installing this dangerous life threatening technology. Smart meters are about surveillance and graft and racketeering. The money made (and paid) for these is in the billions.
On February 29th, we will reclaim our future from the 1%. We will shut down the corporations and recreate our democracy.
In Wednesday, January 4th, join the Alliance for Democracy and Move to Amend Portland chapter and our allies as we rally outside City Hall to support and strengthen the proposed city resolution supporting a federal constitutional amendment to End Corporate Personhood. You can view the Mayor's proposed resolution here.
With election season upon us it's very easy to see the impact special interests have on our nation's politicians. Elected leaders in Washington make this fact especially obvious to see, though not purposefully. At this point, not only is it visible in the president, but after so many debates it is starting to become evident on the part of Republicans. Money and power guides not just who they are polite to, but also what promises they make and the flip flops they make while still campaigning even. One moment they may say something leading voters to believe they stand firmly against an issue, and later on they may soften their rhetoric on the issue or information emerges either contradicting the initial statement or placing what they said in a hypocritical light.
KGW is polling viewers on t her reaction to Occupy Portland's solidarity protest on the Port of Portland.