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Protestors’ Message Pretty Simple and Clear: Enough Is Enough
No matter how the media folks seem befuddled by what they claim is a lack of clarity from those at the Occupy Wall Street and its solidarity events throughout the nation, I hear one clear and concise message from them all. I am not speaking for them, but I live where they live in life and in spirit. And there are millions more like me out here. Enough is enough.
Working people in this nation have always given themselves to a hard day’s work for honest pay at a living wage and decent benefits and modest time off for a brief annual vacation or to stay home sick when needed. But as the decades of assault on the working class have continued from the 1980s forward, workers have had to do more with less both at work and at home and have been expected to be cheerful, even grateful, while doing so. Enough is enough. 
The demand is for an end to the near domination of every human endeavor in this nation by the forces on Wall Street and their loyalists in government and elsewhere. Enough is enough. (photo: Sasha Kimel)
Working class young people and college students who used to have choices about their futures based on their own desires about what they wanted to do as adults and as a their vocations and avocations have now been forced to take on massive debt to attend college or to begin their adult work lives searching for jobs that tens of thousands of unemployed older adults need too. Enough is enough.
Meanwhile, CEO salaries escalated. Corporate profits skyrocketed. Enough is enough.
In Washington, D.C., and in the individual states too, politicians of every stripe sought big money donors and promised they’d deliver for those donors – even played the working class voters for fools as they promised them they cared about issues like education and healthcare and housing and clean air and water, public safety and poverty. They didn’t really care about anything except what the big money donors paid them to care about. Enough is enough.
You took working class sons and daughters to war – sometimes for reasons clearly in your own self interests – and taught them to crave your world view and to see their own families as failures even as you paid them terrible wages and slashed their benefits. You didn’t really care about honor and country. You spoke of love of America and love of soldiers but really loved only one thing over all else: profit, power and privilege and using all means to achieve those things you valued. Enough is enough.
Meanwhile, the bankers and Wall Street traders speculated and bought and sold everything that could be bought or sold. Richer and richer, more brazen and more broad, the power and control Wall Street interests held over everything and everyone grew exponentially. Real estate loans were made and inflated then dumped. Corporations became people, said the highest court in the land. People became fodder for profit, Wall Street positioned. Most of the politicians nodded in ready appreciation of the power you held over the land – the world. Enough is enough.
“What are the occupiers’ demands?” ask many in the media and those otherwise paid to be confused by the clarity? The demand is for an end to the near domination of every human endeavor in this nation by the forces on Wall Street and their loyalists in government and elsewhere. Enough is enough.
Gordon Gecko (and his writers) said it clearly for the Wall Street crowd years ago, “Greed is good.” Even if it was a line in a movie, it was a classic and a rallying cry and solemn prayer for a generation of greedy profiteers. Enough is enough.
The occupiers on Wall Street and those occupiers in solidarity all over America (and the world) are finally answering, “Greed is not so good. Greed kills. Greed steals homes. Greed steals health. Greed steals future dreams. Greed steals study time. Greed steals time away from building a life, getting married, having babies and someday retiring in dignity. Greed is not good. And the changes of policy and in practice need to occur to reverse the advancement of unbridled greed must be done and done as forcefully and clearly as is possible. Just as you all knew how best to protect and advance the systems for your friends in the greedy 1 percent, you know those policies and practices which would benefit those in the 99 percent. Enough is enough.
We’ve told you over and over again. We want an equal shot at decent lives -- not a handout or free rides. The working class has never asked for that – but Wall Street lovers sure have. What you’ve given us is no choice but to take to the streets as you’ve closed the hearing rooms and the board rooms and even the break rooms (no worker deserves any breaks do they?). Enough is enough.
We’ve had to act grateful for crumbs but then you even scooped those crumbs up for yourselves and your Wall Street cronies. We’ve had to act cheerful though every policy decision in favor of the wealthy and powerful few felt like another beating and yet another tamping down of our ability to ever get out of our economic slumps. “Be grateful you even have a job. If you don’t want it, someone else will.” Isn’t that your mantra to us? Pit worker against worker, neighbor against neighbor. Enough is enough.
Having your crumbs is not enough. Working class people in increasing numbers have absolutely no reserves left upon which to draw. Our wealth was funneled to all of you on Wall Street and your friends. We do not wish to be you. We wish to be fully human and free of your greedy domination. Enough is enough.
We do not look at you with the wide-eyed stares of those who admire your accomplishments. You squashed people. You stepped on whoever and whatever was in your way to get your wealth and position. We abhor what you represent about the human condition and your desire to prove your superiority. We can see it when you look at us like you might be ill if you have to suffer being in our presence. Enough is enough.
The demand? Our human dignity back. Our chances to work decent jobs for a living wage with decent benefits in safe workplaces. Our chances to look forward to growing old in a dignified retirement with those we love. Decent homes in safe communities with clean air and water and good schools for our kids. Access to a single standard of high quality healthcare should we get sick or hurt without being forced into bankruptcy. In short, we demand those decencies and common goods a civilized society affords itself through shared effort and funding. Taxing the rich isn’t unfair class warfare, but taxing the working class at a much higher rate to keep the rich happy sure is. Enough is enough.
For you enough was never and will never be enough. For us, your unwashed masses and the fodder for your profits and continued greed, enough has become enough. Finally.
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Show AllHopefully whoever challenges Obama in the primaries will read this very succinct analysis of the need to end corporate control of government NOW.
Public financing of campaigns
Restore FDR's New Deal financial industry regulations
End corporate welfare programs and provide single-payer medical insurance for all Americans
The list goes on and on.
"Hopefully whoever challenges Obama in the primaries.."
Someone is going to "challenge" him?
Excellent piece of writing and a great rallying cry."Enough is enough". You better believe it.
It's a curious question, "what do they want, what are they asking for, what is their plan? etc etc."
When a robbery is taking place do you stop and ask, "now what is my goal, what are my demands?" No, you do whatever it takes to stop the robbery. How difficult is that to understand?
It is not just wall street, the 112th congress will do nothing for the working class yet fights like hell to protect the top one percent, every single republican has sworn not to make the top pay their fair share. every single republican has voted against any kind of public option for health care. Obama didn't help he just caved to them. The obstruction of this bunch of ass holes Is enough.
Who do you think owns Obama and most of Congress ?
People can live on nearly nothing and can defer payments on nearly anything, but as far as illness, Americas insurance companies will leave you sleeping under a bridge and laugh while selling off your things. The lack of a singlepayer health care system is Americas down fall and they own you and me. Who owns the 112th? And Obama? The top one percent is not just wall street, it's the Kochs, fox news, rush Limbaugh, and most of all the insurance industry.
Those you just alluded to are indeed the top 1% - the Kock Bro's, the Limpbone, the owner of Foxworld. They are the mouths and the wallets of that vile and depraved growth that we have come to identify as the Top 1%.
And how 'bout that Donna Smith? She's great, isn't she?
I think it's less a question of who owns them, but rather which closed club to which they belong. With a net worth estimated at 10.7 million and a congress:
"U.S. senators had a median net worth of approximately $1.7 million in 2007, the most recent year for which their financial data is available, and 62 percent of the Senate's members could be considered millionaires. In the House of Representatives, the median net worth was about $684,000, with 39 percent of members having net worths estimated to be at least $1 million. By contrast, only about 1 percent of all American adults can be considered millionaires. Growth between 2006 and 2007 was still a healthy 13 percent, despite indications last year that the economy was headed south."
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/10/as-economic-storm-brewed-congr.html
I think it's obvious who's goals they are more interested in protecting. Most of them are not part of the 99%.
Another interesting thing about this article: she actually uses the term 'working class', instead of crapping on about the poor middle class. To paraphrase Cornel West-"We're all working class now." I believe he said "niggers."
Enough what, Donna?
Enough radiation?
Enough electricity?
Enough industrial and chemcial devastation?
Enough commercials?
oh, no...you mean 'Enough hogging the money!'
what a wake up you have ahead...money will not help you...
stop thinking demand, and start thinking de land...
There's plenty of "enoughs" to go around. She makes it pretty clear what hers are. Yours might just possibly be connected in some obscure way to hers.
ah, but you see, there aren't...
jobs, for example, directly contradict a healthy planet...
we cannot agree to disagree, anymore...the destruction of the natural world must end...lifestyles dependent upon that destruction must also end...
I totally agree with you!!!!!!!! Thankyou, I have been waiting for someone to come up with the connection to jobs=killin our planet.... the industrial economy, with it's fossil fuel dependence is our death nell........we need to start over.. go back....first is debt forgiveness and then people can do sustainable living. Those with out an actual home/house can be given one, with some land ....we would find a way to help those in the cities....... bringing in food by horse cart or anyway...plus they can make some of their own gardens....... if we start to really think about his... make plans ....we can do it.... we need to work on this....not industrial jobs that create pollution, consumerism garbage.....
You don't think farming even subsistance farming uses fossil fuels, or creates some damage to the enviornment? You really need to start thinking this through. Perhaps you need to do a little homework on a farm or ranch. You might not be aware that even the Amish use pesticides.
I thinkyou need to think this through. The amount of pesticides, excess chemical fertilizer along with the co2 from tractors on agribusiness farms far exceeds anything that can be done on a subsistence level.......then, there are ways to farm in which one doesn't use any pesticides.......then again....I've done some reading.......and yes, once we began to do actual agricultrue as a species, we started doing much harm to the ennvironment.....including deforestation......when we were hunter gathers we did much less damage...... soooo, on another post, I proposed we go back to hunter gather stage....BUT......OF COURSE I AM MAKING STATEMENTS TO BRING UP IDEAS, TO WORK ON....... GET THAT .....TO WORK ON.....DID YOU GET THAT.....TO WORK ON.......which is basically what every on here is doing, since I don't think anyone here has all the answers and has not sat down to work up a plan for all the rest of us to go by.......we need to use this site for a starting place......the formulation of a plan for our future, comes from leaders, (which do not have to be those in power now) listening to us....and we all work to gether to to implement this plan....... in a perfect world......
End the Reign of the Federal Reserve.
Dismantle the IMF, the WTO & World Bank! Audit, Investigate and Incarcerate the International Banking Cartel!
We need a fresh start, AWAY FROM:
THE USURIOUS INTEREST OF THE BANKSTERS!
A DEBT BASED ECONOMY!
A POLITICAL PROCESS DOMINATED BY CORPORATE MONEY, CORPORATE INTERESTS AND CORPORATE GREED!
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WE NEED A FRESH REASSERTION, AND RE-INVIGORATION OF THE POWER OF WE THE PEOPLE!
ENOUGH IS MORE THAN ENOUGH!
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Privatization is THEFT!
Deregulation is CORRUPTION
Corporate Personhood is A WEAPONS AGAINST WE THE PEOPLE!
Everything you write is correct. Get rid of the IMF, WTO. greedy banksters, corporate personhood. Get rid of Wall St. Do away with corporate capitalism.
But End the Reign of the Federal Reserve? Sure, individual Fed chairmen, notably Alan Greespan, have done a lousy job - Greenspan was a major contributor to the market meltdown of 2008. The Fed does not "rule" but is answerable to the president and Congress. If the president and Congress have not been doing their job of oversight, that is not a structural problem of the Fed.
Without the Fed there would be no national currency and therefore no economic activity beyond barter in local markets and no employment beyond subsistence work. The economic life of the country would dwindle to something resembling the village life of Middle Ages. Possibly democracy would be practiced in these villages, but if history is any guide a warrior class (many of them descendants of today's banksters) would probably emerge to rip off the villagers, leading eventually to a might makes right form of governance by warrior nobility or war chiefs protecting villages in return for the villagers' labor.
So the secret then would be to not just eliminate the Federal Reserve but to reform it into something that really is part of the government and is accountable to the people.
To accomplish that, unfortunately, we would need a political public that understood the Federal Reserve and it seems even those who are Chairman of it don't understand it.
A barter economy such as is described in Cathy Mason's post would not be able to sustain the lives of the current population of this bedraggled planet.
I don't know why the Fed is singled out as being unaccountable to the public, anymore than the executive or Congress. On paper it is every bit part of the government as any other part.
Below is what Wikipedia says. The reputable economists I've read don't I think, dispute the gist of this.
"The Federal Reserve System (also known as the Federal Reserve, and informally as the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States. It was created in 1913 with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, largely in response to a series of financial panics, particularly a severe panic in 1907.[2][3][4] Over time, the roles and responsibilities of the Federal Reserve System have expanded and its structure has evolved.[3][5] Events such as the Great Depression were major factors leading to changes in the system.[6] Its duties today, according to official Federal Reserve documentation, are to conduct the nation's monetary policy, supervise and regulate banking institutions, maintain the stability of the financial system and provide financial services to depository institutions, the U.S. government, and foreign official institutions.[7]
The Federal Reserve Board (FRB) was created December 23, 1913. It consists of seven members of the Board of Governors and divides the country into twelve districts with a Reserve Bank for each district. The job of this bureaucracy is to maintain employment, keep prices stable, and keep interest rates low by regulating monetary policy. The Federal Reserve Board also supervises banks, provides financial services, and researches the United States economy and the economies in the surrounding region.
The Federal Reserve System's structure is composed of the presidentially appointed Board of Governors (or Federal Reserve Board), the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks located in major cities throughout the nation, numerous privately owned U.S. member banks and various advisory councils.[8][9][10] The FOMC is the committee responsible for setting monetary policy and consists of all seven members of the Board of Governors and the twelve regional bank presidents, though only five bank presidents vote at any given time. The Federal Reserve System has both private and public components, and was designed to serve the interests of both the general public and private bankers. The result is a structure that is considered unique among central banks. It is also unusual in that an entity outside of the central bank, namely the United States Department of the Treasury, creates the currency used.[11]
According to the Board of Governors, the Federal Reserve is independent within government in that "its decisions do not have to be ratified by the President or anyone else in the executive or legislative branch of government." However, its authority is derived from the U.S. Congress and is subject to congressional oversight. Additionally, the members of the Board of Governors, including its chairman and vice-chairman, are chosen by the President and confirmed by Congress. The government also exercises some control over the Federal Reserve by appointing and setting the salaries of the system's highest-level employees. Thus the Federal Reserve has both private and public aspects.[12][13][14][15] The U.S. Government receives all of the system's annual profits, after a statutory dividend of 6% on member banks' capital investment is paid, and an account surplus is maintained. In 2010, the Federal Reserve made a profit of $82 billion and transferred $79 billion to the U.S. Treasury.[16]"
Economists like Joe Stieglitz, James Galbraith and Dean Baker have laid out plans whereby the Fed could turn around the economic malaise we're in in fairly short order. None of the fixes they mention is in any way controversial or exotic - just the Fed doing what it's supposed to do. Somehow many people readily grasp the corruption by corporate power of the president and Congress but seem to think the Fed is different. Fed personnel aren't elected but they serve at the pleasure of the politicians who do.
The Fed's main job is to smooth out the panics, booms and busts that are inherent in a capitalist economy, to guard against inflation and deflation. Obviously it hasn't always been successful in this - its failures in recent years has been due to the increasing influence of corporate power over its operations, especially under corporate shill Greenspan. Bernanke, I understand, has just issued a statement urging Congress to defer cost cutting and attempts at deficit reduction until the economy gets back on its feet. This is exactly what he should be saying.
I dont have time today to get into the full details, but what I would say is pretty well covered in Ellen Brown's Web Of Debt. The Fed us accountable primarily to its shareholders, like any private, for-profit entity — It is not, as you claim, accountable to the people, or regulated even close to sufficiently enough by We The People.
When I state it should be dismantled, I mean it should be entirely nationalized, and turned into a truly Federal, and democratically overseen body, with only the interests of its new shareholders, We The People, to set its agenda. I also think we must move entirely away from a fractional reserve system, and that interest rates be made fair, and again, payable back to the nation, not to a private banking cartel.
Finally, and related to the above, we must move entirely over to a credit based (and barter based) economy, and out of the debt based economy which can only lead to further and perpetual periods of market rises puncuated by inevitable collapses.
If you haven't read Web Of Debt, it's a must read and will clarify anything I state here, and then some!
Cheers CM, and Long Live the Occupation of Wall Street!
Btw, while you're on Wikipedia, look up:
Working Group on Financial Markets, or The Plunge Protection Team. Is this publicly accountable?
Also remember, that the Fed is simply the top of a pyramid scheme that fans the banksters' debt money — and the interest it accrues — MANY times over. Only private banks profit by this fractional reserve system. The rest of the borrowing public gets screwed. So unless you are a private banker, the Fed and its entire system, whether you believe its public or private (it's arguably both), screws you over.
I respectfully suggest you examine the first sentence in your last paragraph for it contains several rather gross errors of historical facts. Controversy has always accompanied banking since the establishment of the USA and for good reason. The place to start is the debate over the First Bank of the United States. Follow that by examining the Populist's argument for a National Bank that eventually was adopted in an albeit twisted form as the very imperfect Federal Reserve System. Then Keynes rejected arguments during the Bretton Woods conference that gave the world the IMF, World Bank and the GATT (now the WTO) should be examined because his objections were proven correct. Hudson, Wolffe, and many others offer detailed reasons why Neoliberalism is also doomed to failure, although it has enriched its benefactors in the shortrun. A good question to ask: Does socialism require banks; why or why not?
Great piece, Donna!! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH is right!!!!
http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/rss
Your warning about pseudo-populists doing the Dem Party's work in coopting OWS is very timely. Another is Van Jones' Rebuild the Dream project.
Michael Moore may not be as Dem-aligned as before. He has turned against Obama and in recent rhetoric doesn't talk Democratic Party politics.
A prominent Democratic endorsement or any official attempts at affiliation would very likely be the kiss of death to the Occupy movement. The Ds are the EXACT reason why this action NEEDED to take place: *Because our 'elected' representatives FAILED to live up to the task* of being a loyal and effective opposition to the entrenched powers already represented by the rightwing Repugnants.
The Occupy Wall Street movement exists IN SPITE OF -and- TO SPITE the useless, traitorous, complicit and corrupt Democratic Party, certainly not to help those bums!
Really enjoy all of your posts i ♥ BigBrother...
BRAVO DONNA!!!
You go Donna! Plain spoke and clear as crystal.
Wonderful. Thankyou Donna Smith.
For the wealthy, way too much is not nearly enough.
"We do not wish to be you. ... We do not look at you with the wide-eyed stares of those who admire your accomplishments. You squashed people. You stepped on whoever and whatever was in your way to get your wealth and position. We abhor what you represent about the human condition and your desire to prove your superiority."
Exactly. Well said. And like the author, I've had it up to here with people telling me that the protesters are just jealous of the 1%.
POLICE BRUTALITY at OccupyWallStreet -- NYPD BEATS PEACEFUL PROTESTERS WITH BATONS - please spread!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE-UnP5F1UM
Thank you Donna Smith, for using the one word we all understand. Enough!
That could be the rallying for the majority of Americans who have had it with being downsized and outsourced to increase profit margins and stock holder returns under the guise of globalization, (the race too bottom).
To having the tax burden shifted on to them - while the boys and girls on wall street pay a 15% capital gains tax.
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"Not a single victory of political freedom over the feudal class was won except against desperate resistance. Not a single capitalist country evolved on a more or less free and democratic basis except by a life-and-death struggle between the various classes of capitalist society." - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Yeah. That's what Im talking about. The greed of the OnePercent is as selfish as a toddler. It's embarrassing how indifferent these people are to others. They have the moral integrity of babies, yet they are running the country. Throw them all out. These people willl never make the changes we demand. And these are not just demands. It's life and death out here.
They are not just running/ruinning this country. They are running and ruinning the world. They are behind the wars, they are behind the unreasonable hysteria about debt and deficits which is destroying civilized society for everyone but themselves with austerity cuts only an Ayn Rand fan would or could justify. They're not happy with destroying just this country, they've gone "global". A far more psychotic condition than "postal".
Philosophies, ideologies, policies,...though they were formulated to solve people's problems, they were formed with lot of assumptions, they are not as real as people. And instead of helping the people, they divided them, they limit them, for what - not for survival or pursuit of happiness, not even for equality and liberty, but for greed, for power; not for all,not even for the majority, but for privileged few. There will be new philosophies, ideologies, policies, they will be again formulated, they will be learned, but first thing first, the people must be heard. The ruling class, the elite, the politicians, they are not gods. One race- the human race. One class - the people.
The pretense of befudlment by political hacks, corporate media sophists and the corporate thugs who hire them is a classic ruse. Obfuscating and frittering on endless details while the "Job Creators" who don't create anything but chaos, pluck the nation and the world.
With their "Let them eat cake" attidues flaunted with chamagne toasts they should recall what happened to the French aristocrats who pushed the 99% to the brink.
Many of the solutions to the economic crisis are obvious and simple. Some simple re-regulation like reinstating Glass-Steagle and reinstating a financial transactions tax will go a long way to cutting the gordian knot the banksters have tangled us into. Common sense tax policies as well as trade policy revissions to would help.
But the first step is to create a movement that can shake the pillars of the halls of government and finance. The obfuscators and their paymasters need to be reminded that it is a short trip from the champagne toast to the gillotine.
Yuk, another Democrat weighing in. Donna Smith does not get it either. Occupy Wall Street is a DECENTRALIZED movement that rests in the hearts of the People, not in the Democratic Party or Washington. Democrats and Republicans will be superceeded and marginalized by this movement. This is something new that desires no scent of Twentieth Century politics or Parties.
I never said this should ever rest in the Democratic Party or any other. I would never say that. I get it. I have been destroyed by the system. If there is to be no scent of the 20th century, many of us born in that time you find so evil will be lost to this movement -- including many good souls. Something new is good; something that reinvents the brutality of the system it seeks to replace is not something new, it's just offered up by new masters. I want something new, something peaceful, something just and something real. Thank you for reading and commenting -- it helps me understand more and learn. Peace, donna
With you all the way, Donna. The one caution I would offer is this: Leaders will emerge in the Occupy movement. We need to be very careful of whom these leaders really represent. Just as the "Tea Bagger" "movement" may have had a genuine grass roots birth, it was quickly taken over by the likes of the Koch Brothers. As Bob Dylan once suggested, "Don't follow leaders".
I say, be very wary of the new leaders as they arise in this movement. For example, known "leaders", like Dennis Kucinich for example, need to be rejected out of hand. Michael Moore should be another out of hand reject. ALL current political and religious "leaders" should be absolutely rejected. They know only the old ways. Jesse Jackson? NO! Dylan Ratigan? NO! Ed Schultz? NO! Rachel Maddow? NO! Russ Feingold? NO! Alan Grayson? NO! They are indoctrinated in the old ways. New ways and new leaders need to arise. And, they need to be watched very very closely. Be wary of every agenda, and scrutinize it closely.
And, having said all of that, I would nominate YOU, Donna, to take a leadership role. I would back YOU, and anyone else who has had your experience and background.
I thank you -- but I also nominate that "anyone else" and everyone else who has the experience and/or empathy to stay in the fight. I think leaders are out there, some known now and others yet to be known, who will be able to do so much to inspire people to our better selves. There are some amazing and courageous nurses out there who have helped frame issues within their profession and well beyond, for example. Thanks for reading and commenting. Peace, Donna
You are quite kind. Sometimes I marvel that people keep up such an active and open discussion here and I value that a lot. We get to better answers together than we ever do on our own -- though I think my view of that has really evolved over time.
I value your comments too. Peace,
POLICE BRUTALITY!! please read/watch/spread
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/05/occupy-wall-street-nypd-police-brutality-video_n_997414.html
Like Trumpka, I've had a snootful of their shit. Unlike Trumpka, I'm done. I'll vote, but my money and my enthusiasm belong to #occupywallstreet or anyone or anything that is against the establishment coalition of the bat shit crazy and the Wall Street new way Democrats. Both are loyal to capitalists before country, and both are economic terrorists and traitors who ought to be in jail.
Listening to Obama's rhetoric on his jobs bill is a hoot. First, it's another Republican lite package; and second, I've heard it all before. If he's going to cry wolf, a wolf better show up. I have zero enthusiasm for Obama or his Democratic Party. He's lucky he's running against the asylum, or he'd be toast. Given his corporate, bi-partisan agenda, he still may be.
THE HUMAN UNION---HU ARE YOU.
Membership---Everybody is already in it. Call your Chamber of Commerce to opt out.
Rejoin at any time.
Dues---Pay it forward with solidarity, common sense and good will.
Leadership---Apache nantan, talk it up, see what happens.
Tactics---Peaceful, Speaking Truth to Power, Resist, Occupy, Produce.
Goals---Fair pay, Fair play, Justice under the Law, Benefits to the Seventh Generation. No War.
One Planet, One People.
IF NOT NOW---WHEN?
CORP IS BORG.
Do we need a symbol?? If so, I humbly suggest the base of the pyramid on the Great Seal---Just the bare base...no toppy eyed cap, just blue sky.
It's ours...might as well use it.
The only citizen who has any protection from the Constitution is that little boy who was born by the Supreme Court. That corporate citizen will replace the we of we the people. This Supreme Court parasite will become the 'good German' of globalization.
Hoa binh and good luck.