Democracy

‘Soon We Will Be Millions’: From Paris With Love And Lessons

April 18, 2016 Marina Sitrin, www.roarmag.org Resist! Democracy, Nuit Debout

By Marina Sitrin for ROAR Magazine - Thousands gather every evening in the Place de la République, and even more during the days and nights of the weekends. Assemblies are held every evening at 6pm, with people of a wide diversity of ages and social classes taking part. The plaza begins to fill around 5pm with circles of people standing and sitting, talking under cardboard signs to identify the theme of their discussion, including groups on economics, education, facilitation, feminism, housing and ecology.

US-NATO’s Failed Attempt To Deny The Will Of Syrian People

April 17, 2016 Vanessa Beeley, www.global research.ca Educate! Democracy, Elections, Syria

By Vanessa Beeley for Global Research. Yesterday Parliamentary elections were held in Syria. 7000 polling booths were opened across the country. 11, 341 candidates were proposed from across Syria with 250 to be elected to Parliament, including a number of female candidates. So contrary to spurious claims from western governments and media, efforts were made to open the voting to all Syrian civilians including those who have fled terrorists held areas. We must also bear in mind that over 90% of IDPs [Internally displaced persons] have fled to Government controlled areas, thus further discrediting claims that these elections are non representative.

Newsletter: The Corruption Of Money

April 16, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Black Lives Matter (BLM), Citizens United, Corporate tax, Democracy, Fight for 15, Living Wage, Occupy, oligarchy, Panama Papers, Tax Evasion, Tax Haven

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers. As tax day approaches, there will be numerous reports about how US oligarchs – wealthy individuals and major corporations – do not pay their fair share in taxes. A GAO report released this week found “at least two-thirds of active U.S. corporations paid zero federal income taxes between 2006 and 2012. The report also found that large, profitable corporations only paid 14% of their profits in federal income taxes on average from 2008 through 2012, while approximately one-fifth of them paid nothing at all.” This is not only due to tax laws that provide corporations with a wide array of loopholes to lower their taxes, but is also due to the intentional hiding of money off-shore. A 2015 report found that nearly 75% of Fortune 500 companies tucked away $2.1 trillion in accumulated profits offshore to avoid paying US income taxes.

Take Action To Stop The TPP This Year

April 16, 2016 Staff, www.flushthetpp.org Resist! Democracy, Jobs, TPP, Trade, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Flush the TPP. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is an international agreement that was negotiated in secret by the Obama administration with the help of hundreds of corporate lawyers from 2009 to 2015. It was signed by the twelve member countries (Australia, Brunei,Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States, Vietnam) on February 4, 2016. It must be ratified by the member countries within two years of signing. Currently, Congress does not have the votes to pass TPP legislation. But, the TPP is a high priority for the Obama administration. White House staff and representatives of Big Business, such as the US Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable and National Association of Manufacturers, are lobbying members of Congress heavily.

Arrests Made As Elderly Americans Protest At 2nd ‘Democracy Spring’ Sit-In

April 13, 2016 Staff, www.rt.com Resist! #DemocracySpring, Democracy, Protests, Washington DC

By Staff of RT - Hundreds of Americans, many of whom are elderly, marched in support of political reform in Washington, DC, taking part in a sit-in and risking arrest as they pushed for fairer elections. RT's 'Redacted Tonight' host Lee Camp was one of those detained. Already, multiple arrests have been made, according to reports from those on the ground near the demonstrations.

Cable News Devotes 30 Seconds To Mass Arrests Protesting Political Corruption

April 13, 2016 Lee Fang and Zaid Jilani, www.theintercept.com Educate! Democracy, Media, Protesters Arrested, Washington DC

By Lee Fang and Zaid Jilani for The Intercept - THE DEMOCRACY SPRING, a protest movement calling on Congress to “end the corruption of big money in our politics” and “ensure free and fair elections,” converged on Capitol Hill on Monday, staging a nonviolent sit-in that resulted in over 400 arrests — a massive number by Washington sit-in standards. While the action, dubbed #DemocracySpring, garnered wide coverage on social media and over 136,000 tweets, cable news programs found little time to cover the political protests, instead focusing largely on horse-race coverage of the presidential candidates for most of the day.

Over 400 Arrested At Capitol On First Day Of Democracy Spring

April 12, 2016 John Zangas, www.tdcmediagroup.us Resist! Democracy, Protesters Arrested, Washington DC

By John Zangas for DC Media Group - Washington, DC – Over 400 Democracy Spring protesters were arrested Monday at the U.S. Capitol on the first day of eight days of planned protests. It was a record number of arrests in one day for a protest there, according to U.S. Capitol police. At one point, police had to stop processing arrests because the jail was full. Cenk Uygur, host of the TV show Young Turks was among the last few people that police removed from the Capitol steps.

Nuit Debout Occupies In Revolutionary Call For Change

April 10, 2016 Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com Resist! Democracy, France, Nuit Debout, Occupy, Refugees, Worker Rights

By Angelique Chrisafis for the Guardian. Nuit debout, which loosely means “rise up at night”, the protest movement is increasingly being likened to the Occupy initiative that mobilised hundreds of thousands of people in 2011 or Spain’s Indignados. Cherifa, a French student at Paris’ Louis-le-Grand high school, who is taking part in the night-time protests. Cherifa, a French student at Paris’ Louis-le-Grand high school, who is taking part in the night-time protests. Photograph: Elliott Verdier/AFP/Getty Images Despite France’s long history of youth protest movements – from May 1968 to vast rallies against pension changes – Nuit debout, which has spread to cities such as Toulouse, Lyon and Nantes and even over the border to Brussels, is seen as a new phenomenon. It began on 31 March with a night-time sit-in in Paris after the latest street demonstrations by students and unions critical of President François Hollande’s proposed changes to labour laws. But the movement and its radical nocturnal action had been dreamed up months earlier at a Paris meeting of leftwing activists.

National Consensus For Transformational Change: Action Needed

April 10, 2016 Robert Weissman, www.huffingtonpost.com Strategize! Banking and Finance, Citizens United, Corporate tax, Democracy, Food and Agriculture, GMOs, Healthcare, Inequality, Social Security, Taxes, Wages

By Robert Weissman for Huffington Post. Americans overwhelmingly agree on a wide range of issues. They want policies to make the economy more fair and hold corporate executives accountable. They want stronger environmental and consumer protections. And they want to fix our political system so that it serves the interest of all, not just Big Money donors. These aren’t close issues for Americans; actually, what’s surprising is the degree of national consensus. The problem isn’t that Americans don’t agree. The problem is that the corporate class doesn’t agree with this agenda, and that class dominates our politics. Because this reality runs so counter to the dominant media story, it’s worth diving into the numbers to get a sense of the vast divide between conventional wisdom and empirical data.

#DemocracySpring, 140-Mile March Before DC Sit-Ins, Arrests

April 4, 2016 Deirdre Fulton, www.commondreams.org Resist! Democracy, March, Protests

By Deirdre Fulton for Common Dreams - Taking their first steps "along the path to a better future," roughly 150 people on Saturday began a 140-mile march from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., marking the official launch of the mass civil disobedience campaign known as Democracy Spring. The Democracy Spring effort—which organizers describe as "poised to possibly be one of the biggest and most impactful acts of civil disobedience in a generation"—is supported by climate, labor, healthcare, and social justice organizations, along with more than 6,000 people who have signed up to participate.

Building Democracy Without The State

April 3, 2016 Dilar Dirik, www.roarmag.org Create! Autonomy, communalism, Democracy, Rojava

By Dilar Dirik for Roar Magazine. Rojava - "When people first came to our house a few years ago to ask if our family would like to participate in the communes, I threw stones at them to keep them away,” laughs Bushra, a young woman from Tirbespiye, Rojava. The mother of two belongs to an ultra-conservative religious sect. Before, she had never been allowed to leave her home and used to cover her entire body except her eyes. “Now I actively shape my own community,” she says with a proud and radiant smile. “People come to me to seek help in solving social issues. But at the time, if you had asked me, I wouldn’t even have known what ‘council’ meant or what people do in assemblies.” Today, around the world, people resort to alternative forms of autonomous organization to give their existence meaning again, to reflect human creativity’s desire to express itself as freedom.

Last Hurrah? Chevron’s Attack On Democracy In Richmond

March 31, 2016 Steve Early, www.popularresistance.org Educate! 2016 Elections, Corporatism, Democracy, Oil and Gas

By Steve Early. Richmond, California’s next municipal voting is less than seven months away. But memories of our last election—one of the most expensive in local history-- remain fresh in the minds of many participants. For Richmond residents whose recollections are fading, we now have a fascinating 90-minute video history of that campaign. Entitled Nate Bates for Mayor, it provides a timely reminder of the stakes involved in a key Left Coast battle against big money in politics that resonated nationally. To watch the trailer or the whole film, go to: www.natbatesformayormovie.com Most political videography (like The War Room) is about winners, rather than losers. So how does the business-backed runner-up in Richmond’s 2014 mayoral race get top billing in this movie?

Real America: An Endangering And Endangered Ruination

March 31, 2016 Gary Brumback, www.dissidentvoice.org Educate! Democracy, Environment, Failed State, Fascism

By Gary Brumback for Dissident Voice. Real America is not the window dressing of a nation posed by her government or by the corporate dominated mass media. Behind that pose is an endangering and endangered “ruination.” If you follow unbiased accounts of current events and conditions you know I am not exaggerating. For decades I have been keeping tabs on Real America’s conditions and her actions at home and away and they are appalling. To summarize them I compiled and reported elsewhere a list of what I call “sadtistics.” [1] They amount to a pitiful portrait of every element of America that matters, whether domestic (e.g., high rates of homelessness and poverty), environmental (e.g. polluted rivers/reservoirs/drinking water) or international (e.g., ubiquitous military bases and destructive and deadly military and CIA operations around the globe).

Flowers Excluded From Debate Disrupts For Democracy

March 30, 2016 Green Party Watch, www.greenpartywatch.org Resist! Democracy, Open Debates

By Green Party Watch. Maryland Green Party U.S. Senate candidate Margaret Flowers was forcibly prevented from participating in a candidate forum sponsored by the Baltimore Jewish Council and Goucher College on Monday evening. Flowers, who had been extended invitations to the debate twice by the organizers, was abruptly disinvited without notice two weeks before the event. When the candidates were asked to take the stage, Flowers stepped up . . . “This is one of many ways the two wealth-based parties create an unfair electoral system for those who challenge them,” said Flowers.

Newsletter: The Unfolding Story Of Latin America

March 27, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Argentina, Boliva, Brazil, Cuba, Democracy, Ecuador, Honduras, Imperialism, oligarchy, Venezuela

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. Latin America has been a key battleground in the conflict between neo-liberal capitalism and US hegemony against the growing people power that is demanding a more equitable economy that builds from the bottom up and is more democratic. Venezuela has been the focal point of the campaign against the progressive cycle. The amnesty bill shows the extreme actions the US and oligarchs are willing to take to wrest power from the people and return it to the wealthy business interests. The wealthy have made progress in some key countries leading to people ask whether the progressive cycle has come to an end and what lies ahead for the region.

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