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Archive for September, 2012
Walmart Warehouse Strike in Elwood, Day 8: Why We Strike
by n0madic, posted on Monday, September 24th, 2012 at 8:05 amTaking Stock of the Occupy Movement
by n0madic, posted on Sunday, September 23rd, 2012 at 12:21 pmVijay Prashad (Trinity College, and author of Arab Spring, Libyan Winter) discusses what the Occupy movement has accomplished, and what’s next.
QE3 Another Fed Give Away to the Banks
by n0madic, posted on Sunday, September 23rd, 2012 at 11:04 amMichael Hudson (Department of Economics, University of Missouri, Kansas City, and author of The Bubble and Beyond): Shoveling money to the banks not meant to create jobs, it’s a way to give banks even more speculative capital and prepare them for another meltdown.
Pam Brown: Occupy Debt
by n0madic, posted on Thursday, September 20th, 2012 at 8:19 pmfrom GRITtv with Laura Flanders
We as a society view our monetary debts as a moral issue: We took out the money, we should have to pay it back. The problem with this logic is that the money we are giving the banks, financial institutions and our government never existed before the interest we incurred piled up.
Pam Brown of the Occupy Student Debt Campaign and Strike Debt says there’s another way out of our predicament: If our numbers are large enough, we can collectively refuse to pay back the trillions that are being extorted from us.
Dr. Jill Stein: We Need a Politics of Courage
by n0madic, posted on Thursday, September 20th, 2012 at 8:04 pmfrom The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann (RT)
Dr. Jill Stein, Green Party candidate for President joins Thom Hartmann. Part of the reason why there is so much bickering and gridlock in Washington is because the US government is a two-party system. How would our democracy be different with a third major party – and could the Green Party be that party?
Sensata Workers in Freeport Camp Out to Pressure Romney, Bain to Save Jobs
by n0madic, posted on Thursday, September 20th, 2012 at 9:32 amfrom Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! broadcasts from just outside a Freeport, Illinois, factory owned by Bain Capital, the private equity firm founded by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Workers at Sensata Technologies have set up an encampment called “Bainport” across the street from the facility to protest the company’s plan to close the plant and move it to China, taking 170 jobs with it. The workers have been trying to get Romney to save their jobs. We’re joined by two Sensata workers, Mark Schreck and Tom Gaulrapp; and Freeport Mayor George Gaulrapp, who has supported the encampment and fended off calls for it to be shut down.
“Welcome to Bainport, a taste of the Romney economy” — that’s the message on one of the banners that greets you at the tent city where we broadcast from in Freeport, Illinois. “Bainport” is an encampment set up by workers who face losing their livelihoods when their workplace closes its doors in November and moves to China, taking 170 jobs with it. The workers’ plant, Sensata Technologies, is owned by Bain Capital, the firm co-founded by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Democracy Now! first spoke to the Sensata workers when we met them at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, where they unsuccessfully tried to meet with Romney. Now, they have returned to Freeport and set up a protest camp in a bid to save their jobs. We speak to “Bainport” workers Dot Turner and Cheryl Randecker.
See also: bainport.com
As Strike Ends, Chicago Teachers and Activists To Fight School Closings
by n0madic, posted on Thursday, September 20th, 2012 at 8:53 amActivists with “Journey For Justice” demand national moratorium on school closings
What does labor need to do to make a comeback?
by n0madic, posted on Wednesday, September 19th, 2012 at 3:27 pmfrom The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann (RT)
Bill Fletcher, Jr., AFGE/activist, joins Thom Hartmann. Ronald Reagan may be a Republican hero – but he’s played the role of the villain to American workers for over three decades. How has the American worker suffered over the last 30 plus years – and how can we stop the war on unions that’s been plaguing America?
Chicago Teachers Union Votes to End Historic Strike
by n0madic, posted on Wednesday, September 19th, 2012 at 7:37 amOne Year of Occupy Wall Street
by n0madic, posted on Tuesday, September 18th, 2012 at 6:59 pmfrom The Nation
One year ago on September 17, a few activists began a peaceful protest just outside Wall Street in New York’s financial district. That action sparked a sweeping movement of public space “Occupations,” in which citizens could air their grievances against corporate greed, protected interests and much more. Encampments sprang up across the world, from Oakland City Hall to St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. Police cleared out the tents months ago, but the networks of activists, young and old, remain intact, as evidenced by this weekend’s packed schedule of Occupy actions. Watch this video to see what activists, union workers and students in debt are planning for the second year of Occupy.
