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Sudhama | 09.21.2011
Contrary to what so many politicians today believe, non-performance is not so easily smoothed over. In fact it costs them much more in campaign dollars in trying to make seem alright than it would were they to just perform. If they did the work, if they simply came through on their promises when given, they wouldn't have to spend so much trying to come up with something – anything - to embellish their records in front of the public. We would know. They would not have to worry and fret about whether or not their lies are working. They would be out touting their record – a record no one could deny, because when they previously promised they would do such and such if elected, they could prove they in fact did.
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Gregory Elich | 07.25.2011
Vast wealth for those at the top, unemployment and poverty for the rest of society One can never have too much money. In the U.S., the top one percent of the population rakes in almost a quarter of the national income and enjoys 40 percent of the wealth. That class sees this as a problem. It is not enough. For ordinary workers, the recession brought only economic hardship. But for corporate America, it meant one thing: opportunity. This is the chance to permanently mold the economy into something approximating the Third World model: vast wealth and privilege for those at the top, and unemployment, falling wages, and inadequate or nonexistent social services for the rest of society.
COMMUNIST MANIFESTO: A PLATYPUS TEACH-IN
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anon | 12.21.2010
Late Monday, a majority of the FCC's commissioners indicated that they're going to vote with Chairman Julius Genachowski for a toothless Net Neutrality rule. http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/12/20-8 Late Monday, a majority of the FCC's commissioners indicated that they're going to vote with Chairman Julius Genachowski for a toothless Net Neutrality rule. [According to all reports, the rule, which will be voted on during tomorrow's FCC meeting, falls drastically short of earlier pledges by President Obama and the FCC Chairman to protect the free and open Internet. ]According to all reports, the rule, which will be voted on during tomorrow's FCC meeting, falls drastically short of earlier pledges by President Obama and the FCC Chairman to protect the free and open Internet.
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Maleka | 10.22.2010
As a potty-mouthed graffiti writer from the South Side of Chicago, William Upski Wimsatt electrified the literary and hip-hop world with two of the most successful underground classic books in a generation, Bomb the Suburbs (1994) and No More Prisons (1999), which, combined, sold more than ninety thousand copies. In Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs, Wimsatt weaves a first-person tour of America's cultural and political movements from 1985-2010. Friday, October 29, 7:00pm. Free and open to everyone in Big Blue Marble Bookstore cafe, 551 Carpenter Lane, Mt. Airy. Event Details It's a story about love, growing up, a generation coming of age, and a vision for the movement young people will create in the new decade. With humor, storytelling, and historical insight, Wimsatt lays out a provocative vision for the next twenty-five years of personal and historical transformation. Never heard of Billy Wimsatt before? Your life just got better. William Upski Wimsatt is the author of Bomb the Suburbs and No More Prisons. A maverick graffiti artist, journalist, and political and philanthropic organizer, Wimsatt has appeared in dozens of publications and is a popular speaker at colleges and conferences.
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Walden Bello | 09.18.2010
My apologies to T. S. Eliot, but September, not April, is the cruelest month. Before 9/11/2001, there was 9/11/1973, when Gen. Pinochet toppled the Allende government in Chile and ushered in a 17-year reign of terror. More recently, on 9/15/2008, Lehman Brothers went bust and torpedoed the global economy, turning what had been a Wall Street crisis into a near-death experience for the global financial system. Two years later, the global economy remains very fragile. The signs of recovery that desperate policymakers claimed to have detected late in 2009 and early this year have proven to be mirages. In Europe, four million people are unemployed and the austerity programs imposed on highly indebted countries such as Greece, Spain, Italy, and Ireland will add hundreds of thousands more to the dole. Germany is an exception to the dismal rule.
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Electorate Power | 08.03.2010
Below are the 114 House members (102 Democrats 12 Republicans) who voted against the Bush Obama war and 58 additional billion dollars for the bloodbath in Afghanistan and the impoverishment of Americans. If your congressperson is not on this list please vote him or her out. Black congresspersons like Rangel and Waters who voted against the war are being targeted for investigation. Vote Out Pennsylvania New Jersey Legislators Who Voted For Bush Obama WarAuthor
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 This work is in the public domain. Only the congressperson below voted against the Bush Obama War Baldwin Becerra
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Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) | 07.28.2010
MANILA - The new administration of President Benigno S. Aquino III begins with an extremely high trust rating of 88 percent – higher than any of the post-dictatorship presidents. This is a measure of people’s belief in the commitment of the Aquino administration to reverse the anti-poor policies implemented during the regime of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. We in the Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) submitted to the President an Agenda outlining demands for changes in the debt and public finance policy, the power industry, the water sector, and government’s stance on climate negotiations and responses to climate crisis. This is in the context of a looming fiscal crisis due to the record-breaking deficit and empty public coffers left by the Arroyo administration, electricity prices soaring past major Asian cities save Tokyo, a water crisis that is pushing Filipinos to desperate extremes, and a looming La Niña that might bring us another devastating Ondoy.
Since publishing An Afrikan Awakening in 1990, poet and activist Ewuare Osayande has been waking up minds with his iconoclastic verse and lyrical vision. For the past twenty years his work has remained on the front-lines of cultural activism. His published books bear witness to his literal mission: art as a force for social change. They include: So the Spoken Word Won’t Be Broken, Blood Luxury, Art at War: Revolutionary Art Against Cultural Imperialism and Misogyny & the Emcee: Sex, Race & Hip Hop. His forthcoming book is entitled Fighting Words: 20 Years of Literary Resistance. Come out and be inspired by the sincere fire that is Ewuare X. Osayande.
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Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM) | 06.30.2010
THERE IS A REASON to celebrate the inauguration of President Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino -- we have finally dumped the most corrupt and most hated regime since the fall of the Marcos dictatorship in 1986. GMA didn't deserve the President's farewell granted her. She should have been ousted years ago. Nevertheless, Aquino’s victory rightfully belongs to the Filipino people who voted against Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her minions. But there is also reason to be concerned. A day before the inauguration, President Noynoy selected his Cabinet team. Most of those tasked to run the economic affairs of the country are former Cabinet members who have been known to implement neo-liberal policies proven detrimental to our people, such as Cesar Purisima of Department of Finance, who donated P10 million to Noynoy’s campaign. Other appointees came from the camps of Senator Mar Roxas, the Hyatt 10, and Noynoy’s close friends and political allies. Not a single one comes from the people’s organizations and the progressive movement, although a number of them supported him; this is unlike the Cory’s administration which brought in progressives into the government in her 
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