Capitalism

SPECTRA’s Office Taken Over

April 28, 2015 FANG: Fighting Against Natural Gas, www.facebook.com Resist! Capitalism, Environment, Fracking, Gas

Earlier today people from across the Northeast converged and took over Spectra Energy's office in Waltham, MA. A "Final Notice" was delivered to Spectra, letting them know that they have 40 days to cancel their northeast fracked-gas pipeline expansion project or face escalated resistance. Permits do not equal permission, and Spectra will be guilty of crimes against humanity if they move forward with this fracked-gas project that will hurt local communities and attribute to the climate chaos that is killing thousands of people each year. We are giving Spectra Energy and their executives one last chance to do the right thing. But if they don't, we are prepared to stop this project ourselves. Join the resistance movement, pledge to take action: http://www.fangtogether.org/pledge More footage and pictures from "the takeover" coming soon.

Koch Brothers’ Quiet Takeover Of Universities

April 24, 2015 Kalin Jordan, www.prwatch.org Educate! Capitalism, Education, Student Activism

Our work with UnKochMyCampus has shown us that transparency removes the smoke and mirrors that cloud the debate, leaving ordinary people ill-equipped to develop informed opinions on research and policy around the most important issues of the day. Our policy is being shaped by corporations, for corporations - and that’s a huge problem. There was a time when the public engaged in a seemingly-legitimate debate about whether smoking caused cancer. Then we learned that the studies claiming cigarettes were safe were funded by the tobacco industry. Once the cat was out of the bag, people saw that “debate” for what it was - a farce.

Domestic Terrorism, Youth And The Politics Of Disposability

April 23, 2015 Henry A. Giroux, www.truth-out.org Educate! Capitalism, Education, Intellectual, Private, Public

Education is no longer a public good but a private right, just as critical thinking is no longer a fundamental necessity for creating an engaged and socially responsible citizenship. Neoliberalism's disdain for the social is no longer a quote made famous by Margaret Thatcher. The public sphere is now replaced by private interests, and unbridled individualism rails against any viable notion of solidarity that might inform the vibrancy of struggle, change, and an expansion of an enlightened and democratic body politic. One outcome is that we live at a time in which institutions that were designed to limit human suffering and indignity and protect the public from the boom and bust cycles of capitalist markets have been either weakened or abolished.

Fast Track Reveals Deep Corruption Of Government

April 18, 2015 Kevin Zeese and Sharmini Peries, www.therealnews.com Resist! Capitalism, Democracy, Free Trade, Human Rights, TPP

Because they have the experience of NAFTA and the WTO. What they've seen in the past, some of the promises in this fast-track are, they put 150 negotiating objectives. You know, protect the environment with enforceable rules, protect labor rights with enforceable rules. Those have been put into every fast-track agreement since the NAFTA and WTO and they've never accomplished anything. In fact there was a leak of the environmental chapter a year ago of the TPP, and it showed that the enforcement sections for the environment are weaker than they were under President Bush's trade agreements. And so there's less enforcement of the environment than there's ever been. And so you have this fast-track that says the objective is to protect the environment with enforceable protections, and the leak says there's no enforcement.

Protesters Slam Wall Street Elites: Profit Off ‘Misery Of Workers’

April 15, 2015 Nadia Prupis, www.commondreams.org Resist! Capitalism, Living Wage, Poverty Wage, Wall Street, Wall Street Journal

A union-supported activist group known as the Hedge Clippers disrupted a hedge fund conference in Manhattan on Monday to call out financial investors they say support poverty wages. The Hedge Clippers describe themselves as "working to expose the mechanisms hedge funds and billionaires use to influence government and politics in order to expand their wealth, influence and power." Roughly 20 protesters entered the main room of the Active-Passive Investor Summit, where a panel on shareholder activists was taking place, and marched in front of the stage for about 20 minutes, chanting, "Hedge fund billionaires, pay your fair share!" "Bill Ackman, show me $15!" the protesters shouted, referring to the billionaire founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital, who was not present during the panel.

Debt Resistance Grows, Attorney General’s Call For Loan Forgiveness

April 11, 2015 Shahien Nasiripour, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Capitalism, Debt, Law, Politics

Top state prosecutors from Oregon to Massachusetts, who contend they have evidence that thousands of Americans were fraudulently urged to take out federal student loans to attend dodgy for-profit schools, urged the U.S. Department of Education on Thursday to forgive the borrowers’ debts. The group of nine Democratic attorneys general demanded that Education Secretary Arne Duncan use his existing authority to cancel debts for students who attended schools currently or formerly owned by Corinthian Colleges Inc., a once-multibillion-dollar company that owned more than 100 for-profit schools with names such as Everest, Heald and Wyotech. The Thursday letter follows similar requests made by Senate Democrats and appeals from consumer groups, such as the National Consumer Law Center, that the Education Department grant debt relief to those who attended Corinthian’s schools.

Formerly Homeless Man Threatens Lawsuit Over St. Louis Stadium

April 10, 2015 Travis Waldron, www.thinkprogress.org Resist! Capitalism, Law, Participatory Democracy, Sports

A St. Louis resident who was formerly homeless and wants to see the city devote more money to social services and homelessness this week threatened a lawsuit against the city of St. Louis if it moves ahead with a plan to fund a new NFL stadium without giving the public a say in the process. The man, William White, is a St. Louis resident and city taxpayer, according to a letter from his lawyers to the city of St. Louis. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch first reported the letter, written by St. Louis University law professor John Ammann and three SLU law students, on Tuesday. Though specific plans are unclear, the city of St. Louis and state of Missouri could use as much as $400 million in public funds to help build a new stadium for the NFL’s St. Louis Rams, whose owner Stan Kroenke has also explored the possibility of moving the team back to Los Angeles, where the franchise played from 1946 to 1994.

Occupation Of University Of Amsterdam Defies Market Education

April 10, 2015 James Anderson, www.truth-out.org Resist! Capitalism, Education, Student Activism

When students kicked in the door of the main administrative building, the Maagdenuis, at the University of Amsterdam on February 25, the "New University" - or "De Nieuwe Universiteit" - movement introduced a new aesthetic dimension of protest. The Maagdenhuis occupation, a protest against the financialization of higher education and against the concentration of decision-making power at the university, disrupted the everyday flow of doing, changing the normal organization of human sense experience on campus. By taking a building and reorganizing human activity inside, with emphasis on dialogue, deliberation and shared decision-making, occupiers created new aesthetic conditions necessary for a new politics, as philosopher Jacques Rancière, who recently visited the Maagdenhuis to show solidarity with UvA students, suggests.

Trade Tribunals Favor Foreign Trans-National Corporations

April 10, 2015 Ben Lilliston, www.iatp.org Educate! Capitalism, Corporatism, Environment, Law, NAFTA

We have entered a new era of corporate rights—where, in their quest to access natural resources around the world, multinational firms now routinely ride roughshod over governments and communities. Two trade tribunal rulings issued last month explain how. Digby Neck, on the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, is a popular whale-watching area. After hearing community concerns about the environmental impact of a proposal to expand a basalt quarry, a Canadian government review panel denied approval of the project. The Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador requires oil companies drilling offshore to invest a portion of their profits into local research and development projects.

Boycott, Divest And Sanction Corporations That Feed On Prisons

April 7, 2015 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Strategize! BDS, Capitalism, Mass Incarceration

“Organizing boycotts, work stoppages inside prisons and the refusal by prisoners and their families to pay into the accounts of phone companies and commissary companies is the only weapon we have left,” said Amos Caley, who runs the Interfaith Prison Coalition, a group formed by prisoners, the formerly incarcerated, their families and religious leaders. “Mass incarceration is the most important civil rights issue of our day. And it is time for communities of faith to stand with poor people, mostly of color, who are unfairly exploited and abused. We must halt human rights violations against the poor that grow more pronounced each year,” Caley said here. He and other prison reform leaders spoke Saturday at the Elmwood Presbyterian Church.

Activists ‘Shut Down’ Nestlé Water Bottling Plant In Sacramento

April 6, 2015 Dan Bacher, www.dailykos.com Resist! California, Capitalism, Human Rights, Water

Environmental and human rights activists, holding plastic “torches” and “pitchforks,” formed human barricades at both entrances to the Nestlé Waters bottling plant in Sacramento at 5:00 a.m. on Friday, March 20, effectively shutting down the company's operations for the day. Members of the “Crunch Nestlé Alliance" shouted out a number of chants, including ”We got to fight for our right to water,” “Nestlé, Stop It, Water Not For Profit," and “¿Agua Para Quien? Para Nuestra Gente.” The protesters stayed until about 1 pm, but there were no arrests. Representatives of the alliance said the company is draining up to 80 million gallons of water a year from Sacramento aquifers during a record drought.

First ‘Clean Coal’ Plant Is Backdoor Subsidy To Oil

April 4, 2015 David Roberts, www.grist.org Educate! Capitalism, Environment, Government, Oil & Gas

The Boundary Dam Power Station, located just north of the North Dakota border, is the province’s oldest and largest coal-fired power plant. Its first boiler was commissioned in 1959. Boilers have been added and decommissioned over the years; there are now six, four of which are active. It is owned and run by SaskPower, the province’s principal utility. (A vertically integrated monopoly utility, for those keeping score at home.) In 2008, the provincial government announced the Boundary Dam CCS project, whereby one of the station’s boilers (No. 3) would be replaced with a modern 160-megawatt boiler and coupled with a facility that would capture and store up to 90 percent of the boiler’s CO2 emissions.

President Obama Announces Weak Carbon Pollution Cuts

April 1, 2015 Center for Biological Diversity, www.biologicaldiversity.org Educate! Capitalism, Environment, Obama

The target for carbon pollution cuts announced today by the Obama administration uses deceptive accounting to disguise weak reductions that won’t prevent catastrophic warming. U.S. negotiators will take this climate plan to December’s United Nations climate talks in Paris. “The starting gun in the race against global warming went off a long time ago, but the United States is still just jogging,” said Kevin Bundy of the Center for Biological Diversity. “We need a stronger strategy. Global efforts to prevent catastrophic climate change depend on the United States making much more ambitious cuts to planet-warming pollution.”

50 Years After Farm Workers Boycott, New Movement Needed

April 1, 2015 Cherri Senders, www.alternet.org Resist! Capitalism, Farmworkers, History, Workers Rights and Jobs

If Chavez were alive today and grappling with the nation’s epidemic of economic inequality, he might well embrace another tactic: building a consumer movement to support good jobs. While activists have yet to seize on this strategy, the opportunity is there for a 21st century visionary to rally the public in the same way that Chavez did half a century ago. A mass movement for good jobs may seem like the polar opposite of a boycott, but it is really just the other side of the same coin. It relies on the same principle as the boycott -- that consumers should not patronize companies that mistreat their employees -- but offers a different call to action.

Corporation Literally Served Inmates Trash

March 31, 2015 Carimah Townes, www.thinkprogress.org Educate! Capitalism, Human Rights, Mass Incarceration

Two weeks ago Progress Michigan uncovered emails revealing that a prison food provider served cakes nibbled on by rats to inmates. They’ve now discovered that employees from this same food vendor, Aramark, served inmates at another facility an equally unsavory meal: garbage. In an email exchange between the company’s general manager, Sigfried Linder, and the state’s Department of Corrections, Linder admitted that prisoners at Saginaw Correctional Facility were served food that was previously thrown in the trash. “Mr. Chisolm discarded the left-overs from the line before the last half unit was in the chow hall.

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