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Got Class Warfare? Occupy Wall Street Now!
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t r u t h o u t | 10.06
Got Class Warfare? Occupy Wall Street Now!
http://www.truth-out.org/got-class-warfare-occupy-wall-street-now/1317760461
Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: "Class warfare has once again entered the vocabulary of mainstream national politics, but this time with a strange twist. Right-wing politicians such as Paul Ryan and various high-profile conservative media pundits and corporate-funded think-tank spokespersons have made visible what ruling classes have long tried to bury beneath the discourse of meritocracy and the myth of the classless society - that is, the harsh consequences of class power, hierarchical rule and savage inequality."
On the Ground Report From Day 19: "The Whole World Is Watching!" Shouts Occupy Wall Street
http://www.truth-out.org/whole-world-watching-shout-enough/1317881594
Paul Mutter, Truthout: "Wednesday, October 5 constituted the largest mass action so far in support of the Occupy Wall Street activists who have established a base camp in Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan. The evening march, which counted as many as 10,000-20,000 participants, included many new supporters and a large number of union workers from National Nurses United, the Transport Workers Union, Services Workers International Union, the Teamsters as well as the city's teachers' and public service employees' unions, among others."
Obama Endorses Millionaire Tax "Surcharge," Presses for Jobs Bill
http://www.truth-out.org/obama-endorses-millionaire-tax-surcharge-presses-jobs-bill/1317929645
Michael Levenson, The Boston Globe: "President Obama, continuing to stump for his jobs bill, said today that he would accept a Senate plan to pay for the legislation by imposing a tax surcharge on those who earn more than $1 million annually. 'I'm fine with the approach they have taken,' the president said, answering a question about the proposal during a 75-minute press conference at the White House."
Koch Subsidiary Told Regulators It Has "Direct and Substantial Interest" in Keystone XL
http://www.truth-out.org/koch-subsidiary-told-regulators-it-has-direct-and-substantial-interest-keystone-xl/1317915241
Stacy Feldman, InsideClimate: "In recent months Koch Industries Inc., the business conglomerate run by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, has repeatedly told a U.S. Congressional committee and the news media that the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline has 'nothing to do with any of our businesses.'"
Report: New Restrictive Voting Rules Could Hurt Five Million Americans
http://www.truth-out.org/report-new-restrictive-voting-rules-could-hurt-five-million-americans/1317914322
Jorge Rivas, ColorLines: "A new study from the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU puts forth an ominous prediction: five million voters could be affected by the deluge of restrictive voting laws that have swept the country in recent years. The report finds that the voters are from traditionally Democratic demographics and could be kept away from the polling booths in 2012. Importantly, the sheer number of voters who could be impacted is larger than the margin of victory in two of the last three presidential elections."
Dennis Kucinich and Chris Hedges on the 99 Percent
http://www.truth-out.org/dennis-kucinich-and-chris-hedges-99-percent/1317925772
Congressman Dennis Kucinich and Chris Hedges, Truthdig: Rep. Dennis Kucinich and Chris Hedges explain why the 99 percenters are "the best among us."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Republicans Around the Country Are Passing Strict Voter ID Laws, and More
http://www.truth-out.org/news-thom-hartmann-republicans-around-country-are-passing-strict-voter-id-laws-and-more/1317916381
In today's On the News segment: The Occupy Wall Street movement swelled to at least 20,000 people yesterday, at least one concrete reform that could come out of this outrage against Wall Street is a financial transaction tax, Steve Jobs died yesterday at 56, Republicans around the country are passing strict voter ID laws, Herman Cain is surging in the polls, and more.
What Role for Labor in the Progressive Uprising? A Conversation With Stephen Lerner
http://www.truth-out.org/what-role-labor-progressive-uprising-conversation-stephen-lerner/1317916123
Amy Dean, Truthout: "No force did more to build the American middle class than organized labor. In recent decades, however, unions have been decimated. Despite concerted efforts to turn the tide, the movement now represents only 7 percent of workers in the private sector. Never have working people in this country been more in need of a collective voice. Yet, we must ask, can labor alone create the change we need? If it can't do it by itself, what role can unions play in supporting a wider progressive uprising?"
Why Is School of the Americas Absent From the National Dialogue?
http://www.truth-out.org/activists-continue-efforts-shut-down-school-americas/1317836361
Rose Aguilar, Truthout: "On April 8, 1993, a Newsweek investigation about the Fort Benning, Georgia-based US Army School of the Americas (SOA), also known as the 'School of Dictators,' 'turned up hundreds of less than honorable graduates linked to military death squads.' They include at least six Peruvian officers who killed nine students and one professor at a university near Lima in 1992 and four of five senior Honduran officers accused of organizing a secret death squad called Battalion 316 in the early 1980s."
Paul Krugman | Economic "Experts" Got Crisis All Wrong
http://www.truth-out.org/economic-experts-got-crisis-all-wrong/1317921967
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "It took bad thinking and bad policy by many players to get us into the state we're in; rarely in the course of human events have so many worked so hard to do so much damage."
Robert Reich | Follow the Money: Behind Europe's Debt Crisis Lurks Another Giant Bailout of Wall Street
http://www.truth-out.org/follow-money-behind-europes-debt-crisis-lurks-another-giant-bailout-wall-street/1317916625
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "Follow the money: If Greece goes down, investors start fleeing Ireland, Spain, Italy, and Portugal as well. All of this sends big French and German banks reeling. If one of these banks collapses, or show signs of major strain, Wall Street is in big trouble."
Occupy Boston: Day One
http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-boston-day-one/1317911627
Mark Provost, Truthout: "The $64 trillion dollar question, 'When will Americans hit the streets like people in other countries?' has been answered. Over the last several days, occupations have spread from Wall Street, and erupted in more than 50 cities across America. The '99 percent' are rising to voice their grievances against an economic and political system which has disenfranchised them for too long. We share painful stories and common concerns, and want profound changes to how this country is governed - and for whom it is governed"
Watch Your Health and Your Pocketbook: A Bipartisan Scheme for Regulatory Deform
http://www.truth-out.org/watch-your-health-and-your-pocketbook-bi-partisan-scheme-regulatory-deform/1317914007
Gerald Epstein, TripleCrisis: "Right wing politicians in the U.S. have gotten very good at channeling George Orwell: As the world economy teeters on the brink of another economic catastrophe whose precipitating cause was a twenty year project to de-regulate finance in the U.S. and abroad, they insist that the cause of our woes is 'job killing' regulations. Never mind that, according to the World Bank, the U.S. ranks 5th in the world in terms of ease of doing business in relation to regulations, and that over the past 5 years, doing business in the U.S. overall has become easier, not harder. The same report shows that in the OECD the ease of doing business has stayed the same or improved since 2006. Yet in the OECD countries 50% more people were unemployed in 2010 than in 2007."
Malawi's Solar Micro-Finance Initiative Builds Business for Women Entrepreneurs
http://www.truth-out.org/malawis-solar-micro-finance-initiative-builds-business-women-entrepreneurs/1317912196
Jessica Buchleitner, Women News Network: "In the small landlocked southeastern African nation of Malawi only 8% of its growing 15.263 million people are connected to the national power grid, a source of power that has become increasingly unreliable. For many women and their families this often means only one thing - complete darkness at night or limited light generated only by candles or kerosene lamps."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
It was an extraordinary moment: a United States senator called for a boycott of the Bank of America.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) took to the Senate floor this week to denounce (http://vodpod.com/watch/15504519-bank-of-america-customers-get-the-heck-out-of-that-bank-senator-dick-durbin?u=buzzflash&c=buzzflash) how Bank of America is gouging Americans through excessive charges on debit card "swipe fees."
Debit card swipes, according to the Federal Reserve Bank, cost at most 12 cents to process, but the banks have historically charged, according to Durbin, on average 44 cents to the retailer. On October 1, a new law went into effect that put a ceiling on the swipe fees at about 24 cents. So, the Bank of America and other banks "too big to fail" are still getting at least a 100 percent profit for every debit card transaction, which is crippling some small businesses.
Moreover, the Bank of America represents the greed that is at the heart of Wall Street by not being content with a 100 percent profit. To circumvent the cap on grossly excessive swipe fees, the Bank of America is now going to charge customers $5 a month as a debit card "use fee."
"Bank of America customers, vote with your feet," Durbin urged in outraged reaction to the new "service charge."
"Get the heck out of that bank," Durbin exhorted. "They are overcharging their customers even for this new debit card reform. It is hard to believe that a bank would impose [such a fee] on customers who simply are trying to access their own money on deposit at the Bank of America."
"After helping to drive our economy off the cliff's edge in 2008, Bank of America was happy to accept a $45 billion dollar federal bailout for their stupidity, their greed and their mistakes," the senior senator from Illinois said with disdain. "And it was just as happy to take that money and hand out $3.3 billion dollars in employee bonuses in the same year 2008."
Remember that if you have a savings account - unless you have a ton of money - in many cases you are earning no interest or just pennies, even though the bank is lending out your cash and getting double-digit returns in loan interest.
This is legalized criminal behavior. The New York Police Department is arresting the wrong people down in southern Manhattan. What's going on in the Bank of America and many other New York City financial institutions is the looting of the United States.
Mark Karlin
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout
Secret Panel of Government Officials Can Put Americans on "Kill List"
Read the Article at Reuters
http://news.yahoo.com/secret-panel-put-americans-kill-list-041603267.html
Suit Alleges Banks and Mortgage Companies Cheated Veterans and US Taxpayers
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/suit-alleges-banks-and-mortgage-companies-cheated-veterans-and-us-taxpayers/2011/10/04/gIQATp4RLL_story.html
Poor New Yorkers Can't Afford Milk Anymore, but Mayor Bloomberg Says Priority Is to "Help" the Banks
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13053
Russ Feingold Endorses Occupy Wall Street
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/russ-feingold-endorses-occupy-wall-street-this-will-make-the-tea-party-look-like-a-tea-party/2011/03/03/gIQANucZNL_blog.html
Congress Looks Abroad to Distract From Wall Street Protests
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13055
Boehner to Obama: All Roads Lead to Nowhere on Your Jobs Plan
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/boehner-to-obama-all-roads-lead-to-nowhere-on-your-jobs-plan.php?ref=fpa
Meet the Kendrick Brothers: God's Faithful Filmmakers
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<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="content" --><p>Thursday 6 October 2011 <br />
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<font><strong>Got Class Warfare? Occupy Wall Street Now!</strong></font><br />
Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: "Class warfare has once again entered the vocabulary of mainstream national politics, but this time with a strange twist. Right-wing politicians such as Paul Ryan and various high-profile conservative media pundits and corporate-funded think-tank spokespersons have made visible what ruling classes have long tried to bury beneath the discourse of meritocracy and the myth of the classless society - that is, the harsh consequences of class power, hierarchical rule and savage inequality."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Zszwz7b9A2gB0e1nx7WJdPKRG7QYG8II"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>On the Ground Report From Day 19: "The Whole World Is Watching!" Shouts Occupy Wall Street</strong></font><br />
Paul Mutter, Truthout: "Wednesday, October 5 constituted the largest mass action so far in support of the Occupy Wall Street activists who have established a base camp in Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan. The evening march, which counted as many as 10,000-20,000 participants, included many new supporters and a large number of union workers from National Nurses United, the Transport Workers Union, Services Workers International Union, the Teamsters as well as the city's teachers' and public service employees' unions, among others." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2tFs1Gc0WfKLgJ1xXnsANfKRG7QYG8II"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Obama Endorses Millionaire Tax "Surcharge," Presses for Jobs Bill</strong></font><br />
Michael Levenson, The Boston Globe: "President Obama, continuing to stump for his jobs bill, said today that he would accept a Senate plan to pay for the legislation by imposing a tax surcharge on those who earn more than $1 million annually. 'I'm fine with the approach they have taken,' the president said, answering a question about the proposal during a 75-minute press conference at the White House." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wUpfB3oDXJrfsec7UPC6xvKRG7QYG8II"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Koch Subsidiary Told Regulators It Has "Direct and Substantial Interest" in Keystone XL</strong></font><br />
Stacy Feldman, InsideClimate: "In recent months Koch Industries Inc., the business conglomerate run by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, has repeatedly told a U.S. Congressional committee and the news media that the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline has 'nothing to do with any of our businesses.'" <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=o%2B%2FAVNXOzTgW0gBOzeEnlvKRG7QYG8II"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Report: New Restrictive Voting Rules Could Hurt Five Million Americans</strong></font><br />
Jorge Rivas, ColorLines: "A new study from the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU puts forth an ominous prediction: five million voters could be affected by the deluge of restrictive voting laws that have swept the country in recent years. The report finds that the voters are from traditionally Democratic demographics and could be kept away from the polling booths in 2012. Importantly, the sheer number of voters who could be impacted is larger than the margin of victory in two of the last three presidential elections."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=LPQCg7c86Y6EWT79U%2ByzjfKRG7QYG8II"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Dennis Kucinich and Chris Hedges on the 99 Percent</strong></font><br />
Congressman Dennis Kucinich and Chris Hedges, Truthdig: Rep. Dennis Kucinich and Chris Hedges explain why the 99 percenters are "the best among us."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wpA61EYPkjig4Rsth%2B29W%2FP0BTbQla3W"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Transcript and Listen to the Audio</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Republicans Around the Country Are Passing Strict Voter ID Laws, and More</strong></font><br />
In today's On the News segment: The Occupy Wall Street movement swelled to at least 20,000 people yesterday, at least one concrete reform that could come out of this outrage against Wall Street is a financial transaction tax, Steve Jobs died yesterday at 56, Republicans around the country are passing strict voter ID laws, Herman Cain is surging in the polls, and more.<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Ix7lCyaSR91aimV36B%2FLF%2FP0BTbQla3W"><font color="#cc0000">Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>What Role for Labor in the Progressive Uprising? A Conversation With Stephen Lerner</strong></font><br />
Amy Dean, Truthout: "No force did more to build the American middle class than organized labor. In recent decades, however, unions have been decimated. Despite concerted efforts to turn the tide, the movement now represents only 7 percent of workers in the private sector. Never have working people in this country been more in need of a collective voice. Yet, we must ask, can labor alone create the change we need? If it can't do it by itself, what role can unions play in supporting a wider progressive uprising?" <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=DoPhN7h1p6BrJ7jU%2FRea3fKRG7QYG8II"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Why Is School of the Americas Absent From the National Dialogue?</strong></font><br />
Rose Aguilar, Truthout: "On April 8, 1993, a Newsweek investigation about the Fort Benning, Georgia-based US Army School of the Americas (SOA), also known as the 'School of Dictators,' 'turned up hundreds of less than honorable graduates linked to military death squads.' They include at least six Peruvian officers who killed nine students and one professor at a university near Lima in 1992 and four of five senior Honduran officers accused of organizing a secret death squad called Battalion 316 in the early 1980s."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UM1IsdrKfx0W%2FtBooGzfC%2FKRG7QYG8II"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Paul Krugman | Economic "Experts" Got Crisis All Wrong</strong></font><br />
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "It took bad thinking and bad policy by many players to get us into the state we're in; rarely in the course of human events have so many worked so hard to do so much damage." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=nQPxGIKqmrI5qPc1LoLWf%2FKRG7QYG8II"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Robert Reich | Follow the Money: Behind Europe's Debt Crisis Lurks Another Giant Bailout of Wall Street</strong></font><br />
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "Follow the money: If Greece goes down, investors start fleeing Ireland, Spain, Italy, and Portugal as well. All of this sends big French and German banks reeling. If one of these banks collapses, or show signs of major strain, Wall Street is in big trouble." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3As2UwJtGu4wWRVZCUq2yPKRG7QYG8II"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Occupy Boston: Day One</strong></font><br />
Mark Provost, Truthout: "The $64 trillion dollar question, 'When will Americans hit the streets like people in other countries?' has been answered. Over the last several days, occupations have spread from Wall Street, and erupted in more than 50 cities across America. The '99 percent' are rising to voice their grievances against an economic and political system which has disenfranchised them for too long. We share painful stories and common concerns, and want profound changes to how this country is governed - and for whom it is governed" <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=0pfJEquVwHEhFarNynLYzvKRG7QYG8II"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Watch Your Health and Your Pocketbook: A Bipartisan Scheme for Regulatory Deform</strong></font><br />
Gerald Epstein, TripleCrisis: "Right wing politicians in the U.S. have gotten very good at channeling George Orwell: As the world economy teeters on the brink of another economic catastrophe whose precipitating cause was a twenty year project to de-regulate finance in the U.S. and abroad, they insist that the cause of our woes is 'job killing' regulations. Never mind that, according to the World Bank, the U.S. ranks 5th in the world in terms of ease of doing business in relation to regulations, and that over the past 5 years, doing business in the U.S. overall has become easier, not harder. The same report shows that in the OECD the ease of doing business has stayed the same or improved since 2006. Yet in the OECD countries 50% more people were unemployed in 2010 than in 2007." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HQvM6EWb76fFaYLlVmtycvKRG7QYG8II"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Malawi's Solar Micro-Finance Initiative Builds Business for Women Entrepreneurs</strong></font><br />
Jessica Buchleitner, Women News Network: "In the small landlocked southeastern African nation of Malawi only 8% of its growing 15.263 million people are connected to the national power grid, a source of power that has become increasingly unreliable. For many women and their families this often means only one thing - complete darkness at night or limited light generated only by candles or kerosene lamps." <br />
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<p>It was an extraordinary moment: a United States senator called for a boycott of the Bank of America.</p>
<p>Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) took to the Senate floor this week to denounce <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=L7CUjzBR%2Bse451t8s23HHfKRG7QYG8II"><font color="#cc0000">how Bank of America is gouging Americans</font></a> through excessive charges on debit card "swipe fees."</p>
<p>Debit card swipes, according to the Federal Reserve Bank, cost at most 12 cents to process, but the banks have historically charged, according to Durbin, on average 44 cents to the retailer. On October 1, a new law went into effect that put a ceiling on the swipe fees at about 24 cents. So, the Bank of America and other banks "too big to fail" are still getting at least a 100 percent profit for every debit card transaction, which is crippling some small businesses.</p>
<p>Moreover, the Bank of America represents the greed that is at the heart of Wall Street by not being content with a 100 percent profit. To circumvent the cap on grossly excessive swipe fees, the Bank of America is now going to charge customers $5 a month as a debit card "use fee."</p>
<p>"Bank of America customers, vote with your feet," Durbin urged in outraged reaction to the new "service charge."</p>
<p>"Get the heck out of that bank," Durbin exhorted. "They are overcharging their customers even for this new debit card reform. It is hard to believe that a bank would impose [such a fee] on customers who simply are trying to access their own money on deposit at the Bank of America."</p>
<p>"After helping to drive our economy off the cliff's edge in 2008, Bank of America was happy to accept a $45 billion dollar federal bailout for their stupidity, their greed and their mistakes," the senior senator from Illinois said with disdain. "And it was just as happy to take that money and hand out $3.3 billion dollars in employee bonuses in the same year 2008."</p>
<p>Remember that if you have a savings account - unless you have a ton of money - in many cases you are earning no interest or just pennies, even though the bank is lending out your cash and getting double-digit returns in loan interest.</p>
<p>This is legalized criminal behavior. The New York Police Department is arresting the wrong people down in southern Manhattan. What's going on in the Bank of America and many other New York City financial institutions is the looting of the United States.</p>
<p>Mark Karlin<br />
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout</p>
</em></p>
<p><strong>Secret Panel of Government Officials Can Put Americans on "Kill List"<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=JBWidvcWc%2BuyBsJecE9iAvKRG7QYG8II" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at Reuters</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Suit Alleges Banks and Mortgage Companies Cheated Veterans and US Taxpayers<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=8ddA9bCfzWs%2F1q634t0WWPP0BTbQla3W" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at The Washington Post</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Poor New Yorkers Can't Afford Milk Anymore, but Mayor Bloomberg Says Priority Is to "Help" the Banks<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=pjqbk6JK4hhtOIHO7Bq1xvP0BTbQla3W" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at BuzzFlash</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Russ Feingold Endorses Occupy Wall Street<br />
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