Overwhelmingly the people who showed up were young ones who felt, “We played by the rules, we went to school, we studied hard, we did everything we’re supposed to do, and now not only are we $50,000 in debt with no way out, there’s no jobs because the bankers crashed the economy—they didn’t play by the rules but they got bailed out. Now we’re stuck being told we’re deadbeats for the rest of our lives, owing money to the very people who destroyed everything.”
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Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action | Video on TED.com - 0 views
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Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers ...
Glenn Greenwald Explains How The Law Is Used To Destroy Equality & Protect The Powerful... - 0 views
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Uploaded by MOXNEWSd0tCOM on Oct 25, 2011 October 25, 2011 MSNBC http://MOXNews.com
Message to Occupy Wall Street: Power to the Neighborhoods - YouTube - 0 views
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A message to Occupy Wall Street tailored to the mainstream left--focused on transcending the left/right spectrum for the purpose of revolution by means of pan-secessionism and decentralizing politics and economics into a system of decentralized cities, towns and neighborhoods where all colors, genders, and political groups can achieve self-determination.
Port of Oakland brought to a standstill | MGx - Musings, Essays & Ballads - 0 views
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Jack Heyman, a recently retired business agent for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union local 10, drove through the Port of Oakland and called in the following statement to Truthout at 9:25 AM Pacific time:"The port of Oakland is effectively shut down. None of the ships are being worked. There is limited trucking activity by non-union workers but the port is effectively shut down. Trucks waiting to pick up containers are backed up over a mile," Heyman said. The truck backup was confirmed by the Oakland Tribune.According to Heyman, this partial shutdown was initiated by the rank-and-file workers at the port, in solidarity with the call for a general strike by the Occupy Oakland protesters. The union's official position on the strike call was to work in the morning and then join the demonstrations in the evening, but according to Heyman, the rank and file decided to vote with their feet and not fill key jobs at the port this morning.
Boston Review - David V. Johnson: What We Owe to Each Other, Part 2 (David Graeber, Debt) - 0 views
AlterNet: Bill Moyers: Our Politicians Are Money Launderers Not Too Different from Tony... - 0 views
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Evidence abounds that large inequalities undermine community life, reduces trust among citizens, and increases violence. In one major study from data collected over 30 years [by the epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett in their book: The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger] the most consistent predictor of mental illness, infant mortality, educational achievements, teenage births, homicides, and incarceration, is economic inequality. And as Nobel Laureate Kenneth Arrow has written, “Vast inequalities of income weakens a society’s sense of mutual concern…The sense that we are all members of the social order is vital to the meaning of civilization.”
Debt deal: anger and deceit has led the US into a billionaires' coup | George Monbiot |... - 0 views
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As the Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz points out, in the past 10 years the income of the top 1% has risen by 18%, while that of blue-collar male workers has fallen by 12%.
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The debt deal will hurt the poorest Americans, convinced by Fox and the Tea Party to act against their own welfare
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