tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22641258403321822542024-02-07T02:37:05.601-08:00Occupy PortlandUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2264125840332182254.post-35315248869612640412011-12-07T01:06:00.000-08:002011-12-07T01:06:03.877-08:00Where is the Left Wing in America?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwOEGmhmxCrfWD4RYEijl1YJ0iv3ztsT1wqmyQIxj4P3TGbtqJmGsyNJSxR5fVSdnd5pugtYKLljxdVekJCePPMSl_GKOHFLyb2CuBINi8GtxmzkgoRkqRyapV8-EyRTMnEKGc9gjw2rM/s1600/Eliana.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwOEGmhmxCrfWD4RYEijl1YJ0iv3ztsT1wqmyQIxj4P3TGbtqJmGsyNJSxR5fVSdnd5pugtYKLljxdVekJCePPMSl_GKOHFLyb2CuBINi8GtxmzkgoRkqRyapV8-EyRTMnEKGc9gjw2rM/s320/Eliana.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: 'PrimaSans BT,Verdana,sans-serif';">The left have already arrived. <br />
They are right here at home. <br />
Occupying this nation. <br />
And informing the 1% that <br />
they have got to grow up <br />
and obey the law. <br />
<br />
68% of America wants an end to<br />
the corporate wars, enforcement <br />
of laws limiting the machinations <br />
of the banking industry, and <br />
investment in jobs with justice <br />
here in America. <br />
<br />
We also want universal health care and education, <br />
like the rest of the western-industrialized nations <br />
on the earth, so that we can complete.<br />
<br />
Only healthy, well-educated, financially-secure, <br />
citizens can build a better tomorrow. <br />
<br />
Many on the right have joined us in these demands. <br />
And the two-faced, right wing sleaze machine <br />
dreamers will be relegated to the dustbins of history....</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2264125840332182254.post-22490725319435463482011-12-07T00:56:00.000-08:002011-12-07T00:56:31.284-08:00Occupy Portland: Cutting Social Services to Pay for Corporate Wars....<a href="http://owsmovement.blogspot.com/2011/12/cutting-social-services-to-pay-for.html?spref=bl">Occupy Portland: Cutting Social Services to Pay for Corporate Wars....</a>: 7-9 Trillion spent on bailing out the banks. Maybe this is part of why we are broke. I guess now congress will tell us we have to cut...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2264125840332182254.post-62851189378928046682011-12-07T00:55:00.000-08:002011-12-07T00:55:45.920-08:00Cutting Social Services to Pay for Corporate Wars....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihyphenhyphentXceKCXp6c2Hv8cQQkz7DSFicOEj4cLKSbcLku7HsKtOLZ4T4RtZB90edU_GFiEHcXkpkwY13EGctAcId53jQFQtvdxTj9eVa1IZllLduaBHW1mo5B2e657ZMh7Ne2Gzh4BuEY03nU/s1600/occupywithrose.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihyphenhyphentXceKCXp6c2Hv8cQQkz7DSFicOEj4cLKSbcLku7HsKtOLZ4T4RtZB90edU_GFiEHcXkpkwY13EGctAcId53jQFQtvdxTj9eVa1IZllLduaBHW1mo5B2e657ZMh7Ne2Gzh4BuEY03nU/s200/occupywithrose.jpg" width="154" /></a></div>7-9 Trillion spent on bailing out the banks. <br />
Maybe this is part of why we are broke. <br />
I guess now congress will tell us we have to <br />
cut Social Security Benefits, school funding, <br />
health care funding, and funding for jobs to <br />
pay for all that corporate welfare. <br />
But something sounds very wrong. <br />
<br />
How will poor, stupid, sick, and unemployed <br />
citizens help secure the peace and rebuild <br />
the economy? Instead we could stop funding <br />
corporate contractors overseas, quit misusing our <br />
troops in corporate profiteering, and bring our <br />
people home to help rebuild America. <br />
But this makes entirely too much sense <br />
for congress to listen.<br />
<br />
They only listen when we camp out in <br />
front of city hall, march, rally, <br />
and raise a ruckus. <br />
<br />
So I guess we will be back. <br />
<br />
----- Original Message -----<br />
From: Mark Schwebke <br />
Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 3:28 pm<br />
Subject: [Issues] FOCUS: Bailout Was Really $7.77 Trillion<br />
To: 'Discussions of political issues and topics' </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2264125840332182254.post-76727527661434044462011-12-07T00:50:00.000-08:002011-12-07T00:50:41.577-08:00Some Movement Goals...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: 'PrimaSans BT,Verdana,sans-serif';"><b>Invest in America</b>:<br />
Stop sending trillions to Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc...<br />
(Three trillion plus at this point) Instead, invest these funds in <br />
rebuilding highways, bridges, ports, railroads, electrical grids, <br />
and other infrastructure. Basic, common sense investment,<br />
which creates jobs and funds the necessary human services we<br />
must provide for our people. <br />
<br />
<b>Effective education</b>: <br />
Schools run by teaching professionals instead of having curriculum<br />
and texts selected by the local McDonalds franchise owner.<br />
<br />
<b>Adequate Health care: </b><br />
Universal Public health care for the people, just like every other nation <br />
on the planet. (Instead of allowing insurance executives to bankrupt the nation.) <br />
<br />
<b>Jobs with Justice: </b><br />
Create jobs at home instead of shipping them overseas.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2264125840332182254.post-37039867329300566932011-12-07T00:15:00.000-08:002011-12-07T00:15:21.880-08:00What is the "Occupation" all About?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: 'PrimaSans BT,Verdana,sans-serif';">In America today...<br />
<br />
Wiretapping, giving trillions to the banks, starting corporate <br />
wars of choice, sending in assassination squads, invading <br />
sovereign nations for profit, rendering Americans, turning <br />
over health care delivery to corporate transnationals, and <br />
financing foreclosures on American homes are legal acts.<br />
<br />
If you want to see what Democracy looks like,watch the people<br />
of this nation shut down the west coast on December 12 to declare a <br />
national economic emergency. This is what Democracy looks like. <br />
And it is about time. <br />
<br />
We ended the Vietnam war by taking it to the streets. We will end the <br />
wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan,and elsewhere by the same <br />
method. Martin Luther King was right. Dwight David Eisenhower<br />
was right. Courage will prevail over fear and when the American <br />
people demand peace, the right wing had best get out of the way and <br />
let them have it.<br />
<br />
in solidarity and with best regards, <br />
Tim<br />
<br />
Associate Editor at The Portland Alliance,<br />
part-time instructor at PCC, JWJ Steering Committee, <br />
and member of the Labor Radio Collective.<br />
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