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Social justice groups to protest at Amazon company meeting, Thurs. May 24
Posted on Author admin
Working Washington and Fuse Washington are planning a Rally outside Amazon’s shareholder meeting Thurs, May 24, 8:30-9:30am Seattle Art Museum 1300 First Avenue, downtown Seattle meet at the Hammering Man “Amazon is a member of American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a shadowy corporate front group that writes bills for conservative legislators across the country.” Amazon […]
Ellen Brown on how banks rip off municipalities via interest rate swaps
Posted on Author Linda Boyd
Excerpts from Ellen Brown’s WALL STREET CONFIDENCE TRICK: How “Interest Rate Swaps” Are Bankrupting Local Governments: It was a deliberate, manipulated move by the Fed, acting to save the banks from their own folly in precipitating the credit crisis of 2008. The banks got in trouble, and the Federal Reserve and federal government rushed in to bail […]
The Trillion Dollar Money Pump for the 1 Percent
Posted on Author Economic Opportunity Institute
By Stan Sorscher, EOI Board Member, and Labor Representative at the Society for Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace I saw the movie Inequality for All, where Robert Reich explains the depth and meaning of inequality in America. He paints a compelling picture. Reich sets up the movie with a teaser: “Something happened in the mid-’70s.” Indeed “something did happen in […]