Extreme Civil Disobedience 2012

Politicians are raising tuition fees on students and want to raise taxes on everyone. California is facing a projected budget shortfall of over 2 billion dollars. Governor Jerry Brown has proposed raising sales tax due t prison overcrowding. Raising your taxes will NOT solve this problem. In 2010, corporate giant GE made hundreds of millions [...]

(How to) End the FED (for dummies) Pt. 3 of 3

WE HAVE THE POWER TO STOP FED POLICY (WITH A CONSUMER FAST) What is QE2? Quantitative easing, or QE is the electronic equivalent of starting up the Fed’s printing presses to create money for buying financial assets in the market – in this case long-term U.S. Treasury bonds. Buying bonds pushes down their yields, and [...]

Welcome to the movement. Welcome to action.

Taxpayer Shutdown 2012 is more than a movement. It’s action. We have marched, protested, and voted. Yet somehow, our elected officials do not listen to our voice when making decisions regarding our country’s future. A majority of Americans believe that the top 1% of wage-earners in the U.S. should be taxed at a higher rate, [...]

Consumer Fast

We would like to raise awareness about steps we can all take and solutions we can all participate in. You can take part in this exchange of information and, at the same time, contribute to Global Non-Compliance against Corruption, Theft, Fraud, and Murder. We have always had the power to stop these crimes. Stop the [...]

General Strikes- a brief history

This was created by the South Central Federation of Labour (http://www.scfl.org/) in Madison, who have called for a general strike in Wisconsin. It’s a brief intro to what general strikes are and what they’ve accomplished in US history. It was based on a paper by Prof. Peter Rachleff, Macalester College. General Strikes: A Brief History [...]

How to start a “Revolution for Dummies”

  Above all, Adams was a publicist: the first American since Roger Williams to appreciate the power of public opinion and to wield it -and organize it. He used all the instruments at hand to promote his crusade. He was an indefatigable letter writer, article writer, and speaker. “Every dig of his pen stings like a [...]

the Corporate Charter

Excesses of corporations chartered by England to exploit the colonies triggered the Boston Tea Party. Once upon a time kings were the sovereigns; they were all-powerful. They had the power to charter corporations whereby capital could be consolidated and directed to benefit both the King and those who were granted corporate privileges. In 1628 King [...]

Thomas Paine

Common Sense SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness Positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining [...]

Get Up ~ Stand Up

We live in a time when elected politicians ignore the needs of their constituents; where the judiciary and police institutions will not uphold the rights of citizens; where the media are afraid to report the truth; where lawlessness abounds and ordinary people are left unprotected and defenseless against the rapacity of a few. The answer to our dilemma [...]

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