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The Enclosed Public: Protest and Premonitions at the Vice-Presidential Debate in St. Louis
A record television audience of almost 70 million people viewed the vice-presidential debate last Thursday night at Washington University's Athletic Complex in St. Louis. But nearly a mile out of view of the complex lay an example of what corporations, the media, and the state have together tried to quell in increasingly forceful ways: public dissent.
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Over one hundred workers, activists, students, veterans and families gathered in Northmoor park near campus to voice alternatives to the candidates' discussion of abstract policy issues. Activist groups Instead of War, Code Pink, and Veterans for Peace organized the protest to highlight the narrow scope of the debate, and to expose the carefully mediated lack of public access to discussions of public policy.
International seminar to discuss how to exit the financial crisis announced
He criticized the conduction of economic policy by Brazilian Central Bank. "The CB is throwing money in the market without taking a specific concern with the change in the economic model, with public investment." Our concern is to analyze the crisis from the perspective of individuals, of the nation, and not from the perspective of the market, because the market heralds want to resolve now what themselves caused, with their bad
International seminar to discuss how to exit the financial crisis announced
Brazilian Paraná States’ governor Roberto Requião announced, Sunday (9) night in the auditorium of RTVE (Paraná State’s Public TV), that the State Government will sponsor a world seminar at Curitiba, to discuss the economic crisis.
He says the biggest obstacle to Brazil overcome the crisis and get strengthened out of it is the Central Bank’s President Henriq
He says the biggest obstacle to Brazil overcome the crisis and get strengthened out of it is the Central Bank’s President Henrique Meirelles, formed by the Bank of Boston, and that will do nothing that would undermine the private banks.
Carlos Lessa proposes control of exchange rate for Brazil to overcome the crisis.
The economist Carlos Lessa, former rector of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and former president of BNDES – National Bank to Economic and Social Development, proposes control of exchange as the primary measure for Brazil overcome the economic worldwide crisis, responsible for bankruptcy of several banks and even nations such as Iceland and Russia, which are at the verge of a moratorium.
STOCK MARKET RALLY, BIG OIL-BUSH-WALL-STREET MANIPULATION!
The world stock market rally is a manipulation by Big Oil, Wall Street and Bush to white-wash the capitalist greed and anarchy of Big Money and promote the candidacy of the Big Oil candidate, John McCain.
The recent bounce in the U.S., Japanese and European stock markets by 11 per cent more than meets the eye.
The Banana Incident
Bananas, cosmic radiation, and private property.
The chimpanzee troop contentedly enjoyed their stand of trees. There were bananas and termites enough for everyone. Nearly everyone had a branch, even the lower ranking chimps. And then it happened.
Capitalism is a failure - what the bailout means for working people
Capitalism is a failure - what the bailout means for working people
Public meeting to discuss the collapse of the financial markets and what this means for working people.
Location: 3022 Cherokee St # A (CAMP Building), St. Louis, MO 63118
Sponsored by: Workers International League
Contact: (314) 435-2493
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Capitalism has Failed
The Working Class Should Not Have to Pay for the Capitalist Crisis!
After a week of turmoil on financial markets, on Saturday, September
Date:
10/04/2008 - 4:30pm - 10/04/2008 - 6:30pmNO TO BUSH-PELOSI BAILOUT OF WALL STREET GREED! TIME FOR PEOPLE’S ACTION AND REAL CHANGE!
The Bush-Pelosi proposed law bailing out Wall Street capitalist greed and hyper-profit,will hit the American poor and middle class even harder, and prolong the crisis. Time to stop the bill! Time to change Wall Street-coddling politicians! Time to go into the streets and make the people's voice heard!
The Bush administration, the Republican kingpins of Wall Street led by Paulsen and Capitol Hill led by the Democrat Nancy Pelosi is selling to the American people a bill hatched to bail out Wall Street greed and hyper-profit, hit the American poor and middle class even harder, and prolong the crisis.
No to the Bailout of the Capitalist Speculators!
The financial crisis that has been heating up since early 2007 reached the boiling point in late September. Credit markets virtually stopped functioning. A full-blown panic swept stock markets worldwide. The U.S. economy is in the throes of a recession that could turn into a Depression lasting for years. In these dire straits, the Wall Street speculators who set off this crisis are demanding that the government rescue them with a bailout priced at $700 billion. The actual costs will be far higher, a trillion dollars or more. Meanwhile, the Democrats are pushing hardest for the Bush bailout of the banks. Presidential candidate Barack Obama blames "greed" for the crisis on Wall Street (capitalism without greed?) and says there must be no "blank check to Washington" -- meaning he's for putting in a few conditions as window dressing. Following in the Democrats' footsteps, the AFL-CIO labor bureaucrats called a demo for "No Blank Check for Wall Street." Yet no amount of regulation will stop the boom-bust cycle of capitalism. Meanwhile unemployment lines are growing and a million families were thrown out of their homes by bank foreclosures in the last year. While the fat cats, Democrats and bureaucrats are all going for the Bush bailout to prop up U.S. capitalism, revolutionary Marxists oppose this trillion-dollar giveaway to the Wall Street speculators, calling instead for a program of transitional demands leading to the expropriation of the banks and the entire bourgeoisie through workers revolution.
Expropriate the Bourgeoisie Through Workers Revolution!
No to the Bailout of the Capitalist Speculators!
Down with the Dictatorship of Finance Capital!
Gold reserves in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Since 1971, the American dollar is no longer backed by gold but only by confidence in the U.S. How long will that last? Photo: Federal Reserve Bank of New York
2008 Midwest SOCIALIST Conference: Building a REVOLUTIONARY Alternative
****BUILDING A REVOLUTIONARY ALTERNATIVE****
November 15-16 * Chicago * DePaul University
(Munroe Hall, 2312 N. Clifton)
****2008 MIDWEST SOCIALIST CONFERENCE****
On November 15, join hundreds of socialists and activists from across the Midwest to discuss today's struggles and building a movement for revolutionary change at the 2008 Midwest Socialist Confernece.
****SESSIONS & WORKSHOPS
*Saturday Morning Plenary
Capitalism in Crisis: Building the Revolutionary Alternative
*Saturday Evening Plenary
Resisting U.S. Empire
*Saturday Workshops
Date:
11/15/2008 - 9:00am - 11/16/2008 - 1:00pmSolarFest Renewable Energy Fair
SolarFest Renewable Energy Fair ~
Meridian Park School ~
175th and Meridian Ave N
Shoreline WA ~
July 19, 2008 ~ 10AM – 8PM
The Speaker Schedule is available here:
http://www.shorelinesolar.org/fair5/speakers.php
The list of Exhibitors is available here:
http://www.shorelinesolar.org/fair5/exhibitors.php
Check out our Sponsors here:
http://www.shorelinesolar.org/fair5/sponsors.php
Interested in volunteering at the Shoreline SolarFest?
volunteer@shorelinesolar.org
Special Offerings at the Fair
Kitchen Compost Pail and Biobag give-a-way.
For Residents of Shoreline Only:
