[The following missive must have been slipped into my pocket this evening as I made my way down Michigan Avenue with my dog.] The State Capitol of Art and Activism by Occupy Ypsilanti What do GoldmanSachs, Jerry Sandusky, Michael Bloomberg, McDonald’s, Rick Snyder, The Gap, Nestle, Major League Baseball, and Mary Sue Coleman have in […]
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Occupy teach-in this Saturday afternoon at Woodruff’s…. Ideas for Ypsi’s occupation abound
Posted in Other, Politics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged 99%, Arab Spring, Blogbaby, Brian Whitener, co-ops, Dave Strenski, Deja Vu, Edible Commons, EMU, foreclosure resistance, GoldmanSachs, Howard Bunsis, Iceland, Jeff Clark, Jerry Sandusky, Liberty Square, local food production, Major League Baseball, Maria Cotera, Mary Sue Coleman, McDonald’s, Michael Bloomberg, Michael Shallal, Natalia Harris, Nestle, Oakland, Occupy Ypsilanti, Olympia, origami, Peter Linebaugh, power, Recreation Park, Rick Snyder, school lunches, teach-in, The Gap, The State Capitol of Art and Activism, Transition Ypsilanti, urban farming, Water Street, wealth inequality, Woodruff's, Zuccotti Park 34 Comments
“The Super Committee failed: We have a solution…”
Yesterday, a group of people associated with the Occupy group in Washington, D.C. took out a full page ad in the San Francisco Chronicle, declaring that, as the Deficit Reduction Super Committee had failed, they had some ideas to offer as to how we might create jobs, reduce the wealth divide and control spending. Their […]
Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 99%, Bush tax cuts, capital gains, deficit reduction, Deficit Reduction Super Committee, drill baby drill, foreclosure, infrastructure, job creation, Medicare, Medicare for all, military spending, Occupy D.C., social security, solutions, Speculation Tax, Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act, subprime mortgage crisis, tax havens, tax loopholes, tax reform, tax the rich, wealth inequality, Works Progress Administration, writing down all underwater mortgages to market value 10 Comments