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webofdebt.com
Nov. 3, 2011
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talkingsticktv on Nov 3, 2011
Ellen Brown author of “The Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free” talking about the public banking system and the Bank of North Dakota October 26, 2011 at Kan Hall, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
by Konstantin Kaminskiy
Guest Writer
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Questions of Political Economy in Modernity
Oct. 22, 2011
Kant, in his “What is Enlightenment?” will give you two roles. In your private role you are a cog in some machine. In this case I a cog in the Go Project machine. Every Saturday I help a teacher teach a class of first-graders. This is frontline duty, as I think of it. The teacher directs, we the volunteers implement. Most of the time I find myself working with individual students. The goal is to help the students, both academically and socially. They have been selected for this by social workers at different local schools. In the private role I am bound to do as the machine tells me to do – if I disagree on a fundamental it is only right that I resign.
by Ellen Brown
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webofdebt.com
Oct. 20, 2011
Among the demands of the Wall Street protesters is student debt forgiveness – a debt “jubilee”. Occupy Philly has a “Student Loan Jubilee Working Group”, and other groups are studying the issue. Commentators say debt forgiveness is impossible. Who would foot the bill?
by Konstantin Kaminskiy
Guest Writer
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Questions of Political Economy in Modernity, August 26, 2011
Sept. 2, 2011
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Note: This was really meant for my personal blog, but there is some political economy in here, so I can put it up here too. I will be finishing the thing about China, no matter how terrible it will be, soon.
RussiaToday on Jul 30, 2011
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The biggest wave of protest rallies in years is due to start shortly in Israel. Demonstrators will take to the streets in seven cities across the country. And activists hope the rally in Tel Aviv alone will attract half-a-million people. Thousands have been camping out across the country for about a week now, calling for social justice and for Prime Minister Netanyahu to go.
RT’s Paula Slier is in Tel Aviv.
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aea2011andover on Jun 13, 2011
An event at Andover High School sponsored by the Andover Education Association to promote student, teacher, and community civic action.
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By Mike Whitney
Information Clearing House
June 02, 2011
This must be what it was like in Russia before the Soviet Union collapsed. The government’s so crooked that nothing works right, the infrastructure’s in a shambles, millions of people are scraping by on government handouts, and everyone’s on a permanent downer. Welcome to the Soviet States of America 2011.
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TheRealNews on Mar 31, 2011
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Wednesday was a national day of action in Honduras as teachers, students, and members of the National People’s Resistance Front took part in a third week of actions against the privatization of education. Students of the National Autonomous University in the capital of Tegucigalpa occupied the campus and the surrounding streets. They were then attacked by riot squads launching tear gas and rocks, and by two tanks that fire water mixed with pepper spray. The police entered the campus grounds from a back entrance before being repelled by hundreds students throwing rocks.
It marked the second time in one week that the police entered the university, breaking a Honduran law that prohibits the presence of police or military on Honduran university campuses.
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El miércoles fue un día nacional de acción en Honduras. Profesores, estudiantes y miembros del Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular participaron en una tercera semana de acciones contra la privatización de la educación. Los estudiantes de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma en la capital de Tegucigalpa tomaron el campus y la calle cercana. Fueron atacados por la policia antimotines con gaz lagrimogena. Miembros de la policía entró el campus de la entrada trasera antes de ser repelidos por cientos de estudiantes tirando piedras.
Por segunda vez en una semana la policía se metio en la universidad, rompiendo una ley hondureña que prohíbe la presencia de policías y militares en los predios universitarios del pais.
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adycousins | November 28, 2010
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By Eva Golinger
Postcards from the Revolution
Aug 4, 2010 Continue reading
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March 07, 2010
This week:
1. Birthplace of the Resistance
2. Occupy California
3. Indonesian Ninjas
4. This is what jail support looks like
5. Post-Olympics Resistance arrests
6. Public Enemy
7. Derrick O’Keefe digs his own grave
8. Vancouver Tent Village
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ISSE members address rallies in San Diego, California
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March 05, 2010
Members of the International Students for Social Equality spoke March 4 at rallies in San Diego, which drew thousands of people to protest cuts to public education. The demonstrations were part of events throughout the state and country to oppose school closures, tuition increases, and teacher layoffs.
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Live from the day of action + Students Take To The Streets Across America!
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SocialistWorker.org
March 4, 2010
Today, students, teachers, faculty, campus workers and community members are making their voices heard–in California and around the country. They’re taking a stand against the ongoing attack on public education at every level, from pre-K through to colleges and universities.
Tens of thousands gathered outside San Francisco’s Civic Center at the end of the Day of Action (Josh On | SW)
SocialistWorker.org readers will contribute their reports, views, pictures and more throughout the day, and will post them here (times are all Pacific time). At 5 p.m. (PST, 8 p.m. on the East Coast and 7 p.m. in the Midwest), we’ll have a live video stream from the San Francisco regional rally against the cuts.
6:10 p.m.: In San Francisco, some 20,000 people–and counting!–were pouring into the Civic Center, reported Ragina Johnson and David Russitano.
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Oct. 17, 2009
I told you earlier that I would explain the student loan racketeering industry better than I did before. That is difficult to accomplish, however, given the sheer magnitude of the problem, and the number of years that this malignant problem has been rotting American society in the shadows, outside the illumination of national news media oversight. You might want to read the book “The Student Loan Scam” by Alan Collinge, available at Amazon.com, to learn the details. However, Collinge tends to be unreasonably diplomatic, and he is only concerned with seeking justice for student loan debtors (to his credit). I, on the other hand, seek both justice for students, and the criminal prosecution and imprisonment of certain student loan industry executives, corrupt members of the U.S. Congress, and certain individuals at the U.S. Department of Education. This corruption not only rots the core of our national principles of self-governance, but it presents a clear and present danger to the traditional American way of life itself. As I hope you’ll recognize here, the implications of what Al Lord, Congressman John Boehner, and others have done to student loan debtors, goes far beyond the student loan racketeering issue itself. It threatens our ability to compete effectively in a globalized economy.
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