Tuesday, February 28, 2012
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Wisconsin Uprising Anniversary Week of Action Schedule
Wisconsin Uprising Anniversary Week of Action Schedule
Anniversary Week of Action to Celebrate the Wisconsin Uprising
February 11th-19th, 2012
One Year Longer, One Year Stronger!
Why an Anniversary Week of Action?
- To remember and honor the unprecedented protests of February and March of 2011, when the people of Wisconsin rediscovered the power of collective action. Read Full Post Here | Week of Action Schedule
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
New Hampshire Legislature Turns Policy Reins Over To ALEC
Jacqueline Janecke and 4 others shared a link.
crooksandliars.comRepublicans in the New Hampshire legislature seemingly have ceded all control of the state to the American Legislative Exchange Council by introducing an unprecedented seven of ALEC's pieces of model legislation in the past week. ALEC …
Bureau of Indian Affairs ::: BREAKING ON WI MINE ISSUE!
Paul Shinkle and 4 others shared I Stand with the Bad River Tribe's note: Bureau of Indian Affairs ::: BREAKING ON WI MINE ISSUE!
BREAKING ON WI MINE ISSUE! "...The US Dept of the Interior, Indian Affairs has assigned Kimberly Bouchard, Great Lakes Agency Superintendent, to look into possible Treaty violations by WI Assembly passing this Bill. Contact her at 715-682-4527, Mon-Fri 8AM-4PM with concerns." Why? ...
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Friday, January 27, 2012
Daily Kos: Citizens Shut Out of a Wisconsin State Assembly Hearing www.dailykos.com
Citizens Concerned about the proposed Penokee Mine
www.dailykos.com
Today the Wisconsin State Assembly voted on AB 426, a bill which is explained here. I was sitting outside of the assembly gallery posting live updates to my Facebook and Twitter during the hearing. Things got a little crazy part way into the hearing, and below I will repost my live updates (includin...
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Scott Walker Staffers Arrested-Reince Priebus Now Involved
AFT-Wisconsin and 3 others shared a link.
www.dailykos.comA fish rots from the head down. Two staffers who worked directly for Gov. Scott Walker while he was county executive were charged Thursday with illegally doing extensive political work while being paid by taxpayers to do county jobs. This is in addition to the three aides of Scott Walker that were
Heartbeat of Red Cliff Band Arrested in Capitol
wcmcoop.com
Sam Morris of the Red Cliff Band was arrested for drumming a prayer in the Wisconsin state capitol just after noon today. He was escorted out of the building by Capitol Police officers and was issued a $260 ticket
How Swedes and Norwegians broke the power of the ‘1 percent’ / Waging Nonviolence - People-Powered News and Analysis
How Swedes and Norwegians broke the power of the ‘1 percent’
A march in Ådalen, Sweden, in 1931.
While many of us are working to ensure that the Occupy movement will have a lasting impact, it’s worthwhile to consider other countries where masses of people succeeded in nonviolently bringing about a high degree of democracy and economic justice. Sweden and Norway, for example, both experienced a major power shift in the 1930s after prolonged nonviolent struggle. They “fired” the top 1 percent of people who set the direction for society and created the basis for something different.
Both countries had a history of horrendous poverty. When the 1 percent was in charge, hundreds of thousands of people emigrated to avoid starvation. Under the leadership of the working class, however, both countries built robust and successful economies that nearly eliminated poverty, expanded free university education, abolished slums, provided excellent health care available to all as a matter of right and created a system of full employment. Unlike the Norwegians, the Swedes didn’t find oil, but that didn’t stop them from building what the latest CIA World Factbook calls “an enviable standard of living.”Read Full Article Here
Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort
Madison Capitol Protesters shared Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort's photo.
Update: Now, nearly 80% of Wisconsinites live in counties that have decided to k...eep guns out of most or all county buildings!
Hey, state government, the locals are doing a great job representing the people instead of the gun lobby: You should try it! Really.See More
Hey, state government, the locals are doing a great job representing the people instead of the gun lobby: You should try it! Really.See More
The Claremont Institute - Who is Ayn Rand?
The Claremont Institute - Who is Ayn Rand?
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In 1991, the book-of-the-month club conducted a survey asking people what book had most influenced their lives. The Bible ranked number one and Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged was number two. In 1998, the Modern Library released two lists of the top 100 books of the 20th century. One was compiled from the votes of the Modern Library's Board, consisting of luminaries such as Joyce Carol Oates, Maya Angelou, Edmund Morris, and Salman Rushdie. The two top-ranked books on the Board's list were Ulysses and The Great Gatsby. The other list was based on more than 200,000 votes cast online by anyone who wanted to vote. The top two on that list were Atlas Shrugged (1957) and The Fountainhead (1943). The two novels have had six-figure annual sales for decades, running at a combined 300,000 copies annually during the past ten years. In 2009, Atlas Shrugged alone sold a record 500,000 copies and Rand's four novels combined (the lesser two are We the Living [1936] and Anthem [1938]) sold more than 1,000,000 copies.
And yet for 27 years after her death in 1982, we haven't had a single scholarly biography of Ayn Rand. Who was this woman? How did she come to write such phenomenally influential novels? What are we to make of her legacy? These are the questions that finally have been asked and answered splendidly, with somewhat different emphases, in two new biographies published within weeks of each other: Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right by Jennifer Burns, an assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia, and Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller, a former executive editor at Condé Nast Publications. Read Full Article Here | The Claremont Institute
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Bad River Drums Arrive at the Capitol January 25, 2012 - YouTube
Bad River Drums Arrive at the Capitol January 25, 2012 - YouTube
Okay, a little context for far-flung friends about this video. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Waler gave his "state of the state" address tonight. Simultaneously, a corporate-written anti-environmental mining bill is being voted on in the Assembly tomorrow. The bill is believed to have been written by Cline Group, whose taconite mine (G-Tac) would significantly encroach on the sovereignty of the Bad River ...Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, by rendering their hunting and wild rice gathering grouns hopelessly polluted with mining tailings and waste.
The drum group in this video are signing the "AIM Song" (acc. to Robert DesJarlait of Red Lake Chippewa). It is sung at protests nationwide and among First Nations in Canada. N-joy. There is actually just one drum in this song. Bobby Gee
Okay, a little context for far-flung friends about this video. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Waler gave his "state of the state" address tonight. Simultaneously, a corporate-written anti-environmental mining bill is being voted on in the Assembly tomorrow. The bill is believed to have been written by Cline Group, whose taconite mine (G-Tac) would significantly encroach on the sovereignty of the Bad River ...Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, by rendering their hunting and wild rice gathering grouns hopelessly polluted with mining tailings and waste.
The drum group in this video are signing the "AIM Song" (acc. to Robert DesJarlait of Red Lake Chippewa). It is sung at protests nationwide and among First Nations in Canada. N-joy. There is actually just one drum in this song. Bobby Gee
Scott Walker’s Plutonomy: An Economy for the One Percent | Truthout
Scott Walker’s Plutonomy: An Economy for the One Percent | Truthout
www.truth-out.org
At the hour petitions were being deposited on January 17, Mother Jones revealed that Walker was scheduled to attend a high-dollar fundraiser in the heart of the New York’s financial district at 339 Park Avenue -- the towering headquarters for global financial giant CitiGroup.
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