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    Socialism is no more an evil word than Christianity. Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve.

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    Sack GoldMans

    April 11, 2009–A New Way Forward organized bailout protests around the country. Locals hit Portland's Pioneer Square to protest our tax dollars being given to greedy Banksters.

    Colleen Lindsay and Mike Ellison at Bank Bailout Protest

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    Put on Your Crazy Hat! Mad Tea Parties

    Mad Hatter: No wonder you’re late. Why, this watch is exactly two days slow.

    Alice: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

    I have been watching the commentaries about the “grassroots, broad-based, spontaneous teabagging” which occurred on April 15th with open-mouthed Unfortunate choice of words? Possibly. You decide. amusement/amazement. Now I want to [...]



    A New Way Forward Protest – Portland

    Portland OR – April 11, 2009 – Click for more info

    NATIONALIZE: Experts agree on the means — Insolvent banks that are too big to fail must incur a temporary FDIC intervention – no more blank check taxpayer handouts. (see Krugman on nationalization)

    REORGANIZE: Current CEOs and board members must be removed and bonuses wiped out. The financial elite must share in [...]



    Welcome to the RNC, Here are Your Handcuffs

    Image by Getty Images via Daylife

    The police once again lock up some innocents right away as a show of force in order to presumably intimidate the rest into behaving.  Different event, same old tactics.  Ho-hum.

    Statement forwarded from Democracy Now!:

    Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman was unlawfully arrested in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota at approximately 5 p.m. local time.

    Goodman was arrested while [...]



    coming soon to a democracy near you

    Minneapolis in September, perhaps?

    SEOUL, South Korea – Police fired water cannons at thousands of protesters Tuesday as President Bush got a volatile reception in South Korea at the start of his three-nation Asian trip.

    Some 18,300 police were on high alert with riot gear and bomb-sniffing dogs to maintain order during Bush’s brief visit, the National Police Agency said. … As evening [...]



    on patriotism

    I know we are 3 days past the Fourth, but since Patriotism is the cheesy plastic hurdle that gets reset in the mud of every election year, I have to get this off my chest.

    First, as an illustration of my larger point, it is typical – but nonetheless ridiculous – that so many on the right are lionizing Jesse Helms and expounding [...]



    I-747 Consequences Part Deux

    NuVoice News

    For the Overburdened Taxpayers of Vancouver Washington

    November 16, 2007

     

    I-747 Consequences Part Deux

    On this coming Monday night the city of Vancouver will be taking further steps to raise everyone’s property tax. This is being done at this time of high fuel prices, inflationary food prices and [...]

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