Finance and Economy

Fed Up With The Federal Reserve

March 28, 2014 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Federal Reserve, Finance and Economy, Protest

A group of activists concerned with the continuing economic struggle of Americans held a sidewalk “conference” in front of Federal Reserve Board headquarters in Washington, DC on March 21 and 22. Their conference, called “Fed Up: The Peoples First Conference on Monetary Reform,” coincided with a European Central Bankers’ meeting to discuss international monetary policy. Occupying the sidewalk in front of the Federal Reserve, they spoke to passersby about the need to change U.S. economic policy and redistribute wealth. Fed Up delegates claim the Federal Reserve is a “black box of decision-making,” responsible for policies that enrich banks with free money at the expense of millions who are economically strapped. Their message: “We need to take back the Federal Reserve, stop bailing out Wall Street and start rebuilding America.”

Is Minimum Wage Another Distraction? Let’s talk Basic Income, Shall We?

March 6, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Finance and Economy, Green Party Shadow Cabinet, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

Cheri Honkala of the Poor Peoples Economic Campaign and Vice President of the Green Shadow Cabinet joins the host Dennis Trainor, Jr. and the Resistance Report panel (Nicole Carty (The Other 98%), Julianna Forlano (Absurdity Today) and Joel Northam (Acronym TV Contributor) - to discuss the jobs crisis in the United States, the perpetually underemployed, and the impact of a raise in the minimum wage versus a policy that guaranteed an income for all.

Open Pharmaceuticals Hit Big Pharma Where It Hurts

February 15, 2014 Staff, www.localorg.blogspot.com Create! Finance and Economy, Health Care

Circumventing these barriers will require creativity and ingenuity on the part of the people. Legislation simply will not work, since the legislators are easily and continuously bought off - nor will protests. Instead, we must unwrap the enigma within which pharmaceutical R&D exists, and begin developing our own medical treatments through professional cooperatives. There are already people working toward this goal - multidisciplinary professionals seeking to circumvent the frustrating pipeline of pharmaceutical and treatment development. One of these people is Andrew Hessel, who is currently working on a project called the "Pink Army Cooperative." Cancer is perhaps the most frustrating condition with which one can be inflicted. It is also a disease that generates millions for the health care industry and pharmaceutical giants despite...

UC Students Still Locked-In To Oust Napolitano

February 15, 2014 Doug Gilbert, www.fireworksbayarea.com Resist! Education, Finance and Economy, Privatization

UC Berkeley students and allies occupied Blum Hall at the North end of UC Berkeley on the afternoon of Thursday, February 13th after a march through the campus. Students are demanding the resignation of Janet Napolitano, who has recently become the President of the University of California (UC) system. Napolitano is a member of the Democratic Party, former Governor of Arizona from 2003 to 2009, an architect of the "Secure Communities" deportation campaign, and was the former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. As of this writing, the occupation is still ongoing and students remain locked inside the building.

Long Suffering In Silence, Bosnians Erupt With Roar

February 15, 2014 Mate Kapovic, www.roarmag.org Resist! Bosnia, Finance and Economy, Poverty

Since the rebellion began, almost all the analysts have insisted that it had been inevitable and that they had been sure all along that something like this was bound to happen sooner or later. Of course, this is not true. Although the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina was indeed catastrophic, prior to all of this most analysts would have claimed that this kind of uprising was impossible because the people are passive, inert and divided by nationalism. But, as is often the case, there was an unpredictable spark and it all grew quickly from there. The uprising began in Tuzla in the North-East of the country; a city with a long left-wing and working class tradition. “A different city”, as is often claimed, because nationalism has never firmly established itself there, unlike the rest of the country.

The Hidden Potential Of The Greens

February 7, 2014 Rivera Sun, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Climate Change, Democracy, Finance and Economy, Nonviolence

While interviewing Jill Stein, Green Party Presidential Candidate in 2012, for the weekly Occupy Radio show that I co-host (listen here), it seems that she, like many of us, is frustrated by traditional politics. Our conversation revolved not around upcoming election or pieces of legislation, but around building a long overdue mass movement for Peace, People, and Planet over Profit - as the slogan for the upcoming Global Climate Convergence goes. This series of marches, demonstrations, civil disobedience and direct actions being planned for Earth Day to May Day 2014 is intended to set the ground for a global strike in 2015. The time has come to move out of traditional politicking and into the arena of concentrated, coordinated, effective nonviolent struggle. With climate change knocking on our doors, an escalation of nonviolent action is required to match the rapid demise of civil liberties and the disturbing rise of authoritarian, corporate-political collusion that seeks profit over peace, people, and the planet. The countdown for change has begun. If we are to survive on Earth, we, the people, need to become skilled in wielding what Gandhi referred to as "the greatest force at the disposal of mankind."

How Do We Get Past Capitalism?

February 6, 2014 Robert Jensen, www.resilience.org Educate! Capitalism, Communism, Finance and Economy, Socialism

The main argument of the book is that capitalism is constituted by a varied of different practices, and so challenging capitalism needs to be about a variety of struggles. I draw on the important work of J.K. Gibson-Graham, who argues that we should model anti-capitalist struggle on feminist struggles. Second-wave feminists didn’t look for an overthrow of patriarchy. Instead, they analyzed what they were up against and fought it in all of its varied manifestations. One of the problems with traditional anti-capitalist thought is that it defines capitalism as a totality, which encourages us to imagine another totality, socialism, which we can try to replace it with. This totalizing perspective has colonized the imagination of anti-capitalism and left us waiting for a revolution we can never have. In the book I argue that we see ourselves as inhabiting a complex social world that has some capitalist things going on in it as well as some socialist ones, some communist ones, and many where economics are not separated out of the broader fabric of life (such as sharing and gift giving, and mutual support). The way we get past capitalism is by building on the healthy non-capitalist aspects of our world while we also do pitched battle with the capitalist ones that we have a fair chance of winning against. In that way we build a better world and shrink the destructive capitalist practices that are part of the social fabric.

Is the TPP Dead? Have We Won?

February 3, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Corporate Personhood, Finance and Economy, Free Trade Agreements, NAFTA, TPP, Video

An interview with Kevin Zeese, organizer with Flush the TPP and Popular Resistance.

It has been 20 years since NAFTA, (North American free Trade agreement) went into effect with the promise of more equality, more jobs, and a better, more prosperous and peaceful world for all of us. Given that NAFTA has contributed to a world that is a negative image of what was sold to us, it is no surprise that the global elite and the Obama administration have been negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership in secret.

Video: Legalize Democracy – Full Documentary

January 27, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Activism, ALEC, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Democracy, Finance and Economy, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Government, Video

Legalize Democracy is a documentary film by Dennis Trainor, Jr. (American Autumn: an Occudoc) about the movement to amend — why it is needed, and how you can get involved, placing the response to corporate coup of our government in the context of the growing Democracy movement emerging right here and right now. Combining interviews with Move To Amend’s national leadership team, with archival footage, and dynamic animated time lines that tell the stories of the Supreme Court cases that shaped the doctrine of “corporate personhood”, the rights guaranteed by amendments fought for by people’s movements, and the intersection of law and culture that codified and created discrimination based on race.

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