Poverty

Searching For Occupy

October 2, 2013 Crystal Zevon, www.indypendent.org Organize! Environment, Housing, Indigenous Rights, Media, Occupy, Poverty

I can still recall my sense of ‘shock and awe’ when, at home on a break from four months of ‘occupying’ a tent, two General Assemblies (GAs) a day and multiple protests each week, I watched on live stream as the police charged through the Washington, D.C. encampment at Freedom Plaza. They tore down our tents, took apart the kitchen and issued threats to the Occupiers still standing their ground. From home, I did the only thing I could do and responded to tweets that the Occupiers were hungry and put out a call to send them pizza. When all was said and done, a few symbolic tents remained, but the Occupy movement was declared (according to mainstream media) ‘dead.’ I sat at home for months, depressed, deflated and yet unwilling to be defeated. In July, 2012, I was in Paonia, Colorado to scatter my parents' ashes, when a local guy named Sid and I decided to protest the younger Koch brother, Bill’s, WWII tank that was to lead the July 4th parade.

Government Shut Down Affects All Especially Poor & Working Class

October 2, 2013 Imara Jones, www.colorlines.com Educate! Finance and the Economy, Poverty, Racism, Worker Rights and Jobs

The shutdown of the federal government which began at midnight today is a body blow to our economy that could prove difficult to bear. Coming on the heels of the automatic budget cuts of sequestration, which are already forecast to cost 750,000 jobs this year, and three years of an anemic economic recovery, the furlough of almost a million federal workers is just not what the economy needs right now. The shutdown was touched off by a Senate vote yesterday to turn down a measure that would have kept the government operating for 10 weeks in exchange for a one year delay in Obamacare. It will be hard to find an American who won’t be touched by this freeze in government activities, especially if it lasts for more than a few short days. As the parts of the government affected by the shutdown disproportionately impact economic opportunity programs for the working poor, historically marginalized communities are likely to the feel the effects of a shutdown acutely as time goes on.

Ending Hunger: Sustainable Development Goals After 2015

September 30, 2013 Olivier De Schutter, Jochen Flasbarth and Dr. Hans R. Herren, www.ipsnews.net Create! Food and Agriculture, Poverty

United Nations - Reducing the proportion of undernourished people by half until 2015 was one of the Millennium Development Goals that the international community set in 2000. It will not be reached: At least 870 million people worldwide – and one child in five – still go hungry; this in a world where we already produce enough food today to feed nine billion people in 2050. Further progress towards reaching this goal can be made in the remaining months, but we must ask ourselves what comes afterwards. The debate on the so-called Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to be reached by 2030, has already begun. On Wednesday, Sep. 25, heads of states and governments will meet in New York. Defeating hunger remains a priority. This is not simply a matter of providing everyone with enough food; crucial for the future of all human beings is how this should happen.

Gentriﬁcation Equals Racism To Me

September 28, 2013 R. B. Jones, www.indyreader.org Educate! Housing, Poverty, Racism

Where Lexington Terrace’s foreboding high-rises once glared at travelers along the Expressway that goes nowhere along Franklin and Mulberry Streets, now stand The Terraces a community of renters and owners. South of there is the neighborhood of Poppleton, which is being gentriﬁed which, usually means moving in middle-class white people. My old neighborhood is now called Heritage Crossing. George Street is gone and the streets in that neighborhood that is almost surrounded by a wall are named after prominent African Americans. The question that must be asked is,“where are all the poor people who used to inhabit that area?” Gentriﬁcation, when it comes to black people means their removal with little or no input or compensation. The biotech park north of Hopkins is a perfect example.

Pope Francis: Not So Much A Reformer As A Revolutionary

September 28, 2013 Paul Vallely, www.independent.co.uk Create! Human Rights, Poverty

Radical change has become the new norm in Rome under the first six months of the pontificate of Pope Francis. The first Pope from the Americas has brought with him – “from the ends of the earth”, as he put it – a fundamentally new perspective. Now conservatives in the Vatican are braced for what could be, next week, a bigger change than anything so far. A new council of eight cardinal advisers – mavericks to a man – will meet for the first time on Tuesday to offer guidance from outside the dysfunctional and self-serving Vatican bureaucracy known as the Roman Curia. The new Pope from Argentina has tasked them with the massive job of reforming the Curia. The new body has been described by the leading ecclesiastical historian Professor Alberto Melloni, of the University of Modena, as the “most important step in the history of the church for the past 10 centuries”.

Popular Resistance Newsletter – Celebrate The Culture Of Resistance

September 20, 2013 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Newsletter Democracy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Immigration, Occupy, Poverty, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

This week we reflect on the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street and the fifth anniversary of the financial collapse. There are reasons to celebrate despite continued economic stagnation and growing debt: the culture of resistance in the US is here and it’s having an effect. There are cracks in the pillars of power, and it’s up to us to pry them open and shine light on the lies and corruption that have been used to steal our future. We see a movement that is building momentum. We look back over the events of the past two years and feel cautiously optimistic. As we met to organize the occupation of Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC, there was a strong sense of suspense. Some said that Americans weren’t feeling enough pain, that we hadn’t reached the tipping point. Similarly, the organizers of Occupy Wall Street acted out of anticipation.

EPA Victims Ask: Who Will Protect Us From Our Protectors?

September 18, 2013 Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Environment, Food and Agriculture, Government, Poverty, Racism, Whistleblowers

The EPA's dismal record of discrimination and intolerance gives the Agency the odious distinction of having had its retaliatory and intimidating policies cited in the first whistleblower protective legislation of the 21st century when Congress and the Executive in 2002 took the first tentative steps toward reigning in this rogue agency that has come to symbolize institutionalized governmental coercion and systematic fear tactics applied by criminal elements within the upper ranks of government against lower level, conscientious workers. The EPA is an Agency that has historically neglected economically-disadvantaged communities and allowed poor children to disproportionately suffer from asthma and other chronic upper-respiratory diseases, sometimes leading to death. The bulk of these children are Black, Hispanic and others who have nowhere else to go, but remain in toxic dumping grounds throughout the United States.

Stop Criminalizing Homelessness: International Boycott Of Palm Restaurant

September 16, 2013 Darren O'Connor, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Poverty

On Saturday, October 19th, an international protest will take place at The Palm restaurant locations to raise awareness of this chain’s support of criminalization of homeless people. In 2012, Denver’s Palm restaurant manager Wendy Klein spoke on behalf of business groups in support of the Urban Camping Ban. The ban made it illegal for people in Denver to sleep with anything covering them, including a blanket, a jacket (if not worn), or a piece of cardboard. In early 2012 I was a nascent member of the Occupy movement here in Denver, Colorado. My frustration with giant banks crashing our economy and getting rewarded with bail-outs by the American taxpayer had led me to participating in Occupy Denver’s Foreclosure Working Group, now the Colorado Foreclosure Resistance Coalition.

How Millions In America Get Entrenched In Poverty

September 15, 2013 Sasha Abramsky, www.alternet.org Educate! Finance and the Economy, Poverty, Worker Rights and Jobs

“There are essentially two stories over the last forty years,” Georgetown Law School’s Peter Edelman explained. “The positive story is there would be forty million more people who are poor if we didn’t have the public policies we have—including Social Security, the Earned Income Tax Credit, food stamps, and Medicare and Medicaid. They have helped quite measurably in keeping poverty from being even higher than it is. So it isn’t that we’ve been unwilling as a country to take steps to alleviate poverty.” But, Edelman continued, there’s a second, less savory story that runs parallel to the first. “Over the last forty years, we’ve increasingly become a low-wage economy. People in the bottom 20 percent are worse off than they were forty years ago. Income distribution has deteriorated. The gaps between the rich and poor have widened spectacularly.”

The Egyptian Revolution’s Next Barrier

September 14, 2013 Reza Fiyouzat and Shamus Cooke, www.truth-out.org Educate! Democracy, Egypt, Poverty, Worker Rights and Jobs

To prevent the possibility of a civil war between the Islamists and the military regime, the Egyptian revolutionaries must take the initiative. If the rank and file of the Nasserite Party, the Tamaroud movement, the April 6th movement, socialist and trade union groups, and others put forth a united set of demands to resolve the economic crisis by taking revolutionary action, the true voice of the revolution will have found a common platform, a potent expression, and the power of the generals and the Muslim Brotherhood will instantly be weakened, since the rank and file of both groups would be natural recruits and would most likely be drawn to such demands.

Pittsburghers Demand Fair Treatment, Taxes from Huge ‘Charity’

September 13, 2013 Leah Samuel, www.labornotes.org Resist! Finance and the Economy, Health Care, Poverty, Worker Rights and Jobs

“If the city’s largest employer has tax-exempt status, it puts the burden on those who do pay taxes,” said UPMC cafeteria worker Christoria Hughes. “And we’re not making enough to sustain that.” Meanwhile, UPMC was getting worse as an employer, too. Wages got so low that some workers have had to turn to food stamps and food banks to get by, said longtime employee Terri Collins. “When I started, there were three housekeepers on each floor,” said Collins, who worked as a UPMC housekeeper for 25 years. “But they’ve cut it down to one. And for raises, I was getting two cents [an hour] a year.” Problems with her back led Collins to take a job as a secretary on one of UPMC’s hospital units eight years ago. Since there’s no union contract, she said, promotions are subjective: “I could become a secretary [only] because the unit director liked me.”

Two Years Later – Where Is The Occupy Movement?

September 11, 2013 Podcast Climate Change, Foreclosure, Occupy Wall Street, Poverty

Two years ago hundreds of people began to occupy Zuccotti Park in New York City in the heart of Wall

Walmart Workers Take Demands To Marissa Mayer’s Penthouse

September 10, 2013 R. M. Arrieta, www.inthesetimes.com Resist! Poverty, Walmart, Worker Rights and Jobs

With Bob Marley’s “Get Up, Stand Up For Your Rights” blasting in the background, about 150 loud and raucous Wal-Mart workers and local union supporters marched down Market Street in downtown San Francisco on Thursday toward the Four Seasons hotel, where Wal-Mart board of director member and Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer lives in a penthouse apartment. When they arrived, they held a dance party with a message: Raise the wages and improve conditions for some of the nations lowest paid workers. In addition to their own action, workers joined another earlier in the day at SF City Hall where immigrant-rights groups were rallying in support of aDue Process Ordinance to stop police collaboration with Immigration & Customs Enforcement. “I think that we’re all in the same boat,” former Wal-Mart worker Jeanette Pendleton told ITT.

VIDEO: Acronym TV Weekly Resistance Report 006

September 5, 2013 Dennis Trainor, Jr., www.youtube.com Resistance Report Education, Poverty, Syria, Video, Wars and Militarism, Worker Rights and Jobs

Mid-East Mission Creeping The horrific suffering of the Syrian people must end. The United States government should have our full support in doing what it can to help ease or end the suffering. However, granting President Obama authorization to wage war with Syria, (even if you call that war an intervention, a limited strike with no boots on the ground, or simply a “strong message”) will not end the suffering in Syria, it will increase it significantly. We look at the crisis, and the alternatives, from multiple points of view outside of the binary lose-lose choice President Obama has presented to Congress, the American people, and the global community.

We Love The Kids, But Only In Syria

September 5, 2013 Kymone Freeman, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Democracy, Human Rights, Poverty, Syria, Wars and Militarism

Contrary to popular beliefs, preemptive strikes were not invented by the Bush Administration. Rather, it was initially introduced by the man that Presidential Candidate Barack Obama said that he admired so much during the Democratic Primary against Hillary Clinton, Ronald Reagan. Reagan “convinced” the Western World that the Island of Grenada under the leadership of Maurice Bishop poised an eminent threat to the security of the United States. In actuality, Bishop was only leading his small tropical island country in an experiment in socialism. This proved to be a deadly undertaking as it garnered the full wrath of the world’s greatest military power who would not tolerate another anti-capitalist economy in the Caribbean.

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