US Uncut Targeting Corporate Tax Dodgers - Day of Action, February 26th - 0 views
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thinkahol * on 20 Feb 11Action map for Saturday 26th February
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Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now | Naomi Klein - 0 views
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I was honored to be invited to speak at Occupy Wall Street on Thursday night. Since amplification is (disgracefully) banned, and everything I said had to be repeated by hundreds of people so others could hear (a.k.a. "the human microphone"), what I actually said at Liberty Plaza had to be very short. With that in mind, here is the longer, uncut version of the speech.
US Uncut's Anti-Austerity Protests Hit Bank of America - 0 views
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As a voice at the megaphone of the Portland protest said, "The United States does not have a deficit problem. The United States has a revenue problem." According to a 2008 report by the Government Accountability Office, 25 percent of the biggest corporations pay no federal income tax. B of A, the recipient of $45 billion in bailout funds, shuttles its would-be tax dollars into 115 offshore tax havens. Meanwhile, budget deficits are cited as justification for pay freezes for public workers and cuts to heating assistance programs, Social Security, and other social safety nets.
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