Poverty

National Gathering On The New Economy Next Spring

November 20, 2013 Staff, , www.neweconomy.net Create! Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Poverty, Worker Rights and Jobs

The New Economy Coalition is delighted to invite you to a convening at Northeastern University in Boston, MA from June 6-8, 2014. In the spirit of our "Strategies for a New Economy" conference at Bard College in 2012, and our "reRoute: Building Youth and Student Power for a New Economy" convergence at New York University in 2013, we will be bringing together a diverse group of the New Economy’s most energetic thinkers, practitioners, and newcomers. We intend to share practices, tools, and stories; highlight achievements; and create an environment that propels existing work and powerful innovations forward. Everywhere we look, people are experimenting with new ways to create sustainable businesses, share knowledge and resources, and build resilient and democratic communities. From many people and places, a common vision for a New Economy is gaining the momentum and power to transform our broken system. A movement is emerging . . .

Open Letter to MoveOn: Time To Change Course On Obamacare

November 19, 2013 Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Health Care, Medicare, Pensions, Poverty, Social Security

It is with great sadness that I watch you making last-gasp desperate attempts to save Obamacare and Obama’s reputation. You look foolish when you say that “Of course, it’s a good law” at the same time as your constituents see through the Obamacare illusion. The law is becoming less popular because people are beginning to see through the false partisan claims of Democrats. And worse, you are actually playing right into the Republican’s trap, really the trap of Wall Street and big business interests. It’s time for honesty. Obamacare is policy that has roots in the Nixon administration, was updated by the Heritage Foundation, a Right-wing think tank, and supported by people like Newt Gingrich. It was first put in place by Republican Governor Mitt Romney in Massachusetts (where it has not worked).

Why We Are Allowed To Hate Silicon Valley

November 12, 2013 Evgeny Morozov, www.faz.net Educate! Corporatism, NSA, Poverty, Privacy, Surveillance

“Is it O.K. to be a Luddite?” ran the title of a fabulous 1984 essay by Thomas Pynchon – a question that he answered, by and large, in the affirmative. This question feels outdated today. “Is it okay not to be a Luddite but still hate Silicon Valley?” is a much better question, for the real enemy is not technology but the present political and economic regime – a wild combination of the military-industrial complex and the out-of-control banking and advertising – that deploys latest technologies to achieve its ugly (even if lucrative and occasionally pleasant) ends. Silicon Valley represents the most visible, the most discussed, and the most naive part of this assemblage. In short, it’s okay to hate Silicon Valley – we just need to do it for the right reasons. Below are three of them – but this is hardly an exhaustive list.

Anti-Poverty Quilt Highlights Disparity

November 10, 2013 Helen Armstrong, www.rabble.ca Educate! Austerity, Finance and the Economy, Poverty

People living in poverty unveiled a collective art piece more than 175 feet long on the Ontario Government lawn on October 17 to mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. They urged the Wynne Government to repair the frayed social safety net. More than 500 individuals and groups from across Ontario joined the Stitching Our Own Social Safety Net campaign. They created artistic squares that, stitched together, represent a whole and complete social safety net. They show the need for new affordable housing, higher social assistance rates, a higher minimum wage, improved dental care and lower post-secondary tuition, employment equity, among other important public supports. "The Wynne Government must stop focusing on economic austerity and program cuts. They should instead repair our social safety net and fund social programs to lift people out of poverty and help the economy," said ODSP recipient Veronica Snooks.

Life In The World’s Largest Refugee Center Explains Al-Shabaab

November 6, 2013 Thymaya Payne, wwwcreativetimereports.org Educate! Poverty, Racism, Wars and Militarism

Whirling red dust clouds the outskirts of a massive temporary “city,” erected on scorching earth, that is now the size of Cleveland, Ohio. A patchwork of plastic bags—the roofs of people’s homes—stretches for miles and miles. This is Dadaab, the world’s largest permanent refugee camp. Women, children, and the elderly, mostly from war-ravaged Somalia, have found their way to this desolate United Nations refugee camp by foot, in harrowing journeys that last several days. 500,000 people have passed through the gates of Dadaab, roughly 60 miles from the Somali border, not knowing that for most this place is a dead end. Yet these resilient souls make a life for themselves in impossible conditions. If Dadaab were actually counted as a city, it would be Kenya’s third or fourth most populous. Yet it’s not counted; it doesn’t exist.

VIDEO: Lessons From Occupying Hurricane Sandy; & Israeli Racism

November 5, 2013 Pamela Brown and Joel Northram, www.popularresistance.org Resistance Report Israel, Poverty, Racism, Video

Lessons from Occupying Hurricane Sandy | Pamela Brown In this Resistance Report segment, Pamela Brown examines the lessons learned from Occupy Sandy in the context of the long history of race-based housing policies that have led to class based economic opportunities and asks, can these issues be addressed by localized organizing alone? Israel Is A Racists State | Joel Northam In this report, Joel Northam explores the question: What happens when you condense 500 years of conquest and colonial expansion into 65 years, possess the latest high tech weaponry, sprinkle a little bit of imperialist patronage of the United States to the tune of 30 billion dollars a year in military aid, possess a vast nuclear arsenal, and gift wrap it all in a nationalist ideology that would make every fascist dictatorial regime in history proud?

Detroit Will Be Democracy’s Decisive Battle

November 5, 2013 Glen Ford, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Democracy, Finance and the Economy, Poverty, Racism

A half-century after the man once known as Detroit Red spoke those words, the last grains of sand are trickling from the hour glass of what has passed for democracy in America. The principle of one-person, one vote – or any meaningful franchise, at all – is no longer operative for the majority of Black people in the state of Michigan, whose largely African American cities are run by emergency managers accountable to no one but Rick Snyder, the venture capitalist in the governor’s mansion. The same bell is tolling for every urban center in the land, as hegemonic finance capital creates the template for direct corporate rule through the systematic destruction of Detroiters’ citizenship rights. The 82 percent Black metropolis has been reduced to a Bantustan in both the economic and political senses of the term.

Book Review: Ours To Master And To Own

November 4, 2013 Reviewed Andy Piascik, www.workerscontrol.net Create! Democracy, Finance and the Economy, Poverty, Worker Rights and Jobs

Much recent discussion and scholarship has gone into dissecting the decline in the strength of the working class in the United States. For the most part, the emphasis has been on the steady weakening of trade unions and on excavating why union officials have been unwilling to attempt new forms of resistance. In such a context, discussions of workers control of the means of production—how it might look, what about it has succeeded and failed in the past, its relationship to revolutionary change—may seem a stretch. But maybe not. For perhaps what the U.S. working class needs as much as anything is to explore alternatives not only to neoliberalism but to traditional unionism, even that of the social movement type.

Low-Wage Workers Robbed More Than Banks, Gas Stations, Convenience Stores Combined

November 3, 2013 Caroline Fairchild, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Finance and the Economy, Poverty, Worker Rights and Jobs

Low-wage workers are robbed far more often than banks, gas stations and convenience stores combined -- and the perpetrators are their own employers. That's because many employers don't abide by minimum wage laws or pay overtime, according to a study, released on Thursday by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. "The country suffers an epidemic of wage theft, as large numbers of employers violate minimum-wage, overtime, and other wage and hour laws with virtual impunity," University of Oregon economist Gordon Lafer wrote in the report.

America’s Shame: Child Poverty Rises, Food Stamps Cut While Billionaires Boom

November 2, 2013 Les Leopold, www.alternet.org Educate! Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Poverty

There are 16.4 million American children living in poverty. That's nearly one quarter (22.6%) of all of our children. More alarming is that the percentage of poor children has climbed by 4.5 percent since the start of the Great Recession in 2007. And poor means poor. For a family of three with one child under 18, the poverty line is $18,400. Meanwhile, the stock market is booming. Banks, hedge funds andprivate equity firms are making tens of billions of dollars again, while the luxury housing and goods markets are skyrocketing. Most amazing of all is the fact that 95 percent of the so-called "recovery" has gone to the top 1 percent who have seen their incomes rise by 34%. For the 99 percent there's been an undeclared wage freeze: the average wage has climbed by only 0.4 percent. To add to the misery, Washington has decided that the best way to tackle childhood poverty is to have poor kids eat less.

Hundreds In Maryland Call For Universal Health Care

October 30, 2013 Jaisal Noor, www.therealnews.com Resist! Health Care, Human Rights, Poverty

Protesters organized by Health Care is a Human Right - Maryland took to the streets in Baltimore demanding healthcare as a basic human right. “We didn't start a movement to be anti-Obamacare or to be anti-CareFirst or anti-Kaiser,” says Sergio Espana of Health Care Is a Human Right - Maryland. “We started a movement for something. And it was to remind ourselves that there are fundamental public goods. And we understand that we need to fight to make sure that they're actually protected. And chief among them, in terms of our organization, our campaign, is that health care itself is a public good.” The march route included the headquarters of CareFirst, one of Maryland’s largest health insurance providers. CareFirst says they plan to increase rates on January 1 because President Obama's healthcare reforms will increase their costs.

Popular Resistance Newsletter – Building A National Culture Of Resistance

October 25, 2013 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Corporatism, Energy, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Fracking, Nuclear Energy, Poverty, Tar Sands

We are starting to see how the movement is in fact changing the political system without focusing on elections, but instead by focusing on the big issues of a failed economic system that creates inequity and puts profits before the people and the planet. An example is the extreme austerity measures, including threats to Social Security and Medicare, that need our attention. Building alliances and creating solidarity across the movement are critical ingredients to our success. In the end, we are confident that it is not who is in office, but the environment we create for them to operate in. We need to continue to protest when elected officials go off in the wrong direction – which is too often – but always build a mass national movement of communities across the country networked together and working to end the rule of money in each of its manifestations and to shift power to the people.

One Year Anniversary Of Occupy Sandy

October 21, 2013 Staff, www.occupysandy.net Create! Environment, Finance and the Economy, Housing, Human Rights, Poverty, Racism

As the one-year anniversary of HurricaneSandy approaches, folks in the New York & New Jersey area are taking time to reflect on the strength and resilience of our community this past year. Occupy Sandy began as a spontaneous effort by a group of people who felt compelled to act in response to disaster. None of us were comfortable sitting by as others suffered. Your contribution helped improve immediate and long term circumstances for many affected by the storm. Each individual’s role was essential in building our collective power; whether working on the ground, contributing financially, baking a lasagna, supporting our information infrastructure, or sharing the Occupy Sandy story.

National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality

October 18, 2013 Staff, www.revcom.us Resist! Immigration, Police abuse, Poverty, Racism, Trayvon Martin

October 22, the 18th annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation, is less than two weeks away. So far, 15 cities in this country and one in Canada have announced plans to take to the streets on this day. This list needs to grow quickly. We need to have 50 or even 100 cities planning marches and rallies, cultural events, teach-ins, and more on O22. Look at the horrors being inflicted on people. Police killing innocent, unarmed people is about an everyday occurrence. And these cops are almost never punished in any way for these crimes. Recently in some outrageous cases where cops were brought into court for killing people, those courts have dropped the charges or overturned convictions of killer cops. All this is unacceptable and it must be stopped! BE THERE ON OCTOBER 22 TO SAY NO MORE!!

Shutdown Solution: Opt Out Of Tyranny

October 18, 2013 David DeGraw, www.daviddegraw.org Create! Democracy, Education, Energy, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Government, Health Care, Housing, Human Rights, Poverty

The overwhelming majority falsely believes that we can’t create change, which is why we are in this mess. The mainstream media has propagandized most people into feeling like we can’t do anything to fix the problems we are confronted by. BULLSHIT!! We live in the richest, most technologically advanced society humanity has ever known. We don’t need the plastic puppet politicians anymore. They’re obsolete! It’s time for us to evolve society by starting our own autonomous local communities. Occupy inspired thousands of autonomous camps. What if we reestablished those camps as permanent Sustainable Autonomous Zones? There are already many intentional communities and collectives that are organically growing all over the place. Let’s learn from them. We’ve dedicated our energy to working on a plan to create a decentralized network of Sustainable Autonomous Zones so we can begin creating self-sufficient communities that can model new ways of living that make present ways of living obsolete.

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