#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty MPs pay activists refuse to take plea http://www.nation.co.ke/News/MPs-pay-activists-refuse-to-take-plea/-/1056/1858064/-/vldyfxz/-/index.html Seventeen protesters arrested during last week’s anti-MPs-pay-increase demo in Nairobi have refused to plead to criminal charges pressed against them. The activists have been slapped with several charges including taking part in an illegal procession and cruelty against animals. The group Monday said the charges “lacked sufficient disclosure” and asked the court to declare the case “unconstitutional”, and set them free. “The Constitution demands that anyone arrested should be informed of the charge, given sufficient details, understand it first before pleading,” Lawyer Harun Ndumbi for the accused said. The accused, he said,…http://www.twitpic.com/cs1dzw
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Corporate Democracy and the Language of the Neo-Cons http://thegaiandragon.blogspot.com/2012/11/corporate-democracy-and-language-of-neo.html The Tea Party and Libertarian Movements are funded by NeoCon Corporations, like Koch Industries, the largest privately held Oil Corporation in America (Stainmaster Carpets). Exxon Mobile spent 0 million funding Climate Denial, but the Koch brothers out spent them [sarcasm] We know how hard it is to stay informed, or even to vote. Corporate Democracy solves that problem. The CEOs of the major corporations are experienced leaders, used to making difficult decisions on a daily basis. They understand the intricacies of economics, and world politics, since they deal with these thorny issues which affect the lives …http://www.twitpic.com/cp95bc
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Switch Your Bank10:12 PM – Public [The top 5 Wall Street banks have had 901 lobbyist meetings with regulatory agencies since July 2010. The top 5 consumer protection groups? Only 116.] When an industry gets nearly nine times as many meetings with regulators as people who oppose the industry, you can guarantee that regulators aren't considering both sides of the issue equally. The only hope is an organized, focused, and informed public that will be loud in calling for Wall Street reform. http://www.thenation.com/article/174113/how-wall-street-defanged-dodd-frank?page=fullhttp://www.twitpic.com/cnhnt7
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty TERMINATE CISPA NOW! http://www.occupy-detroit.us/2013/04/14/terminate-cispa-now/ The voting public of the United States has rallied countless times to protect freedom of information. It is one of the sacred rights we have to be able to be informed and retrieving information without barriers is essential. We have had so many people fighting for freedom of information – including Bradley Manning and Aaron Swartz [1][2][3], who’s death spawned #PDFtribute from researchers opening their copyright work to the public. It is an affront to our rights and the oath of office our government officials take “to uphold the interests of the people” whom they serve. As representatives this is not how you feel about the topic – get it strai…http://www.twitpic.com/cjh62l
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Whistle blown as bird flu toll rises http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=30&art_id=132556&sid=39377272&con_type=1 The mainland has been hit by four more cases of a new strain of bird flu, bringing total infections to seven. They came as a Weibo user blew the whistle on Nanjing's Gulou Hospital when he posted a photo of what appears to be a diagnosis of a patient, one of the four new cases. The profile of user “Phoenix” says he is an administrative director at the hospital. And in Hong Kong, Health Secretary Ko Wing-man said the government will step up temperature checks at the border, especially for people from Shanghai and Anhui province. Ko said private clinics have been alerted to keep the Department of Health informed of suspected case…http://www.twitpic.com/cgs7ik
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Released in Nou Barris building for families evicted http://www.acampadadebarcelona.org/2013/03/29/alliberat-edifici-nou-barris-families-desnonades/ TRANSLATED FROM CATALAN SPANISH BY GOOGLE CHROME TRANSLATOR As I informed you This past March 26 was held last Thursday in a New Neighbourhood manifestACCIÓ the right to housing . The demonstration took place on Via Giulia and pointing senyalitzan banks guilty of evictions, the final action was the release of a real estate housing to families evicted from the neighborhood , owned Caixa Penedès, located 84 Pablo Iglesias -88 | Directions . For today and the next few days are preparing workshops and activities. disseminating this information is invited to approach and get to know the building and support the initiative. Then on Friday activities and more information about this release. The management of the flats will bring 500 × 20 group has already prepared a list of families who live in the building and start living there in the coming hours. Opened last Thursday, but it came 3 days. The building was completely new state of neglect it for a few years. The building was named Insula Utopia activities take place in the coming days to become known among the neighbors . You are all invited! By on Friday , all day, free market. From 12am, has been reporting to the neighborhood, at 17h and 19h during macramé film forum “Memory of loot.” Remember, if you can, come to support this popular initiative. The address of the building c. Pablo Iglesias 84-88 (L4 <M> Via Julia) | Directions . For updates , you can follow the profile that has been created on Twitter, @ InsulaUtopia_9b and the hashtag # BienvenidaUtopia.http://www.twitpic.com/cg2nru
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Are Americans Too Stupid For Democracy? http://www.alternet.org/belief/are-americans-too-stupid-democracy#.UUnOqY3MuPs.facebook How can we rationally pursue our self-interests when we don't know what's going on? In 2011, Newsweek asked 1,000 Americans to take the standard U.S. Citizenship test, and 38 percent of them failed. One in three couldn't name the vice-president. A 2009 study in the European Journal of Communications looked at how informed citizens of the U.S., UK, Denmark and Finland were of the international news of the day, and the results weren't pretty ( PDF). “Overall,” the scholars wrote, “the Scandinavians emerged as the best informed, averaging 62–67 percent correct responses, the British were relatively close behind with 59 percent,…http://www.twitpic.com/cd1cak
#union #iww #ows #occupy #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot Shop With the 99% in Your Pocket https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bizvizz/id595785692?mt=aflcioemail When I go to the store, I try to “shop my values.” I try to buy products I can recycle, organic fruits and vegetables, and of course, union-made products whenever I can. But what about buying from a company that, say, didn’t pay any taxes last year? Or one that donates to candidates who have voted against working families? Or that takes government subsidies but wants to cut worker benefits? It’s pretty tough to find information like that, but it definitely matters to working families. We’ve partnered with BizVizz, a free app for iPhone users that allows you to snap a picture of a brand’s logo or bar code and see a simple, graphic screen that tells you the truth about America’s largest corporations. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bizvizz/id595785692?mt=aflcioemail Folks who’ve already downloaded the app are saying it “puts more power in the consumer’s hand than ever to make informed choices about where your money is going and the economic responsibility of the companies who are getting it.” We think that matters, too. You might buy “American,” “union made,” “organic,” “recycled” or “green” products. Wouldn’t it help to buy “99%” products? Download the app now: go.aflcio.org/bizvizz In Solidarity, Nicole Aro Director of Digital Strategies, AFL-CIOhttp://www.twitpic.com/c1zyzf
#union #iww #ows #occupy #p2 #tlot #tcot The new Government of Catalonia's own take Government to court over the privatization of water Ter-Llobregat http://www.acampadadebarcelona.org/2013/01/07/el-nou-govern-de-catalunya-portara-davant-els-tribunals-a-la-propia-generalitat-per-la-privatitzacio-daigues-ter-llobregat/ TRANSLATED FROM CATALAN/SPANISH BY GOOGLE CHROME TRANSLATOR Via the Platform Water is Life comes a statement about this interesting news related to the privatization of water Ter-Llobregat. Contractual Resources administrative body of Catalonia (OARCC) suspended the award for actions on November 30 . This Thursday January 3, Francesc Homs, Press conference, disavowed the resolution OARCC and announced that the Government will appeal the decision in court. We also invite you to sign the proposed European Citizens Initiative for the European Parliament let the water out of the market laws. It is a right and should not be good. This is the link to the news . The Platform Water is Life and entities that comprise continue their work toward a public water management, transparent and participatory and the good ecological status of water bodies of Catalonia. As they say, nor Ter Llobregat waters of shares or Agbar Water Ter Llobregat PUBLIC! Take this opportunity to invite you to sign the European Citizen Initiative (a Legislative Initiative – ILP) for the European Parliament let the water out of the market laws. You can do this by following this link . We reproduce below a statement posted on the blog of the Platform Water is life : [Cat-cast] The new Government of Catalonia to bring to justice the Generalitat The latest developments on Water Ter Llobregat which has given us the government we get from the Government speechless. We have passed that we described at the time of Banana Autonomy in the last term of government to a kind of tambourine that is able to carry himself through the Ministry of the Presidency, the Government in the courts, in an unusual maneuver and disturbing, very disturbing. During Autonomy in disbelief as we saw Banana autoanomena't “Government” best dance to markets and multinationals, so if last October 17 had to award the tender Water Ter Llobregat ( ATLL) in a hurry, the October 26 presidential revealing the Ministry of Planning and Sustainability and delayed the process alleging that required a complete analysis of the two bids submitted by ACCIONA AGBAR and, finally, the sixth November , ACCIONA awarded the grant; ridiculous. Nor should we forget that the Administrative Resources Contractual Authority of Catalonia (OARCC) already suspended the award for actions on November 30 , but still within a few hours the suspension lifted. It was clear then that either markets or are the interests of the multinationals that govern the water, but not sure who did it is the government of Catalonia. Change of Director of Planning and Sustainability expected, as it was the submission of the Government of Catalonia to private interests. What is not expected is that the situation could deteriorate further, today January 4, we know that the Government will take the Government to court, proving that not only we sell the structures of state as it was ATLL now to get in between that State itself. Honestly … how sovereign right to decide and tell us? If we continue like this then no claim or state to govern. Given these facts we see with concern the role of the majority of political forces that shape the Parliament of Catalonia. We met the first opposition party is silent and awards. And now a socialist party that talks about the defense of public services but the Barcelona metropolitan area have agreed to the privatization of water and sanitation following a further unfair and opaque privatization of ATLL for true also supported by PP and ERC. Let us not get dizzy with puns, ambiguities or toast to the sun, because they have really are the facts and consistency: no excuse, not just those who are responsible but also those who are able to avoid it, leave do. Facing a Government that improvises, acts of negligence and avoids his duties as protecting the pubic water services, the guarantee of fundamental rights of citizens ask the Parliament of Catalonia to stop this sad spectacle and recover sanity: to keep permanently Water Ter – Llobregat public company since water is essential to life and that there is no technical reason or for any economic, social or environmental far to pursue its privatization; do not let a good essential as water becomes a tax tax collection that serves to pay interest on bank and dry waste of public administration, and that, ultimately, the Government abandons its submission to markets and private interests for the good of the people have chosen. Otherwise Catalan society who will have to restore the functions to be delegated to some politicians who shun. Will the people who need to manage water services in a direct, transparent and participatory, to ensure that the general interest of the public. The Platform Water is Life and entities that comprise continue our work towards a public water management, transparent and participatory and the good ecological status of water bodies of Catalonia. Our business aims to be proactive and dialogue. Provide all that we know about water. However, we will use all legal and administrative remedies available to us when we see objectively that violate the principles of environmental justice and / or social and work on building a social movement with solid arguments get back peacefully by law and common sense we should. Water Ter Llobregat neither shares nor of Agbar Water Ter Llobregat PUBLIC! [Cast] The new Government of Catalonia will lead to justice the Generalitat Recent events Waters Ter Llobregat with which the government has given us the Generalitat not get us out of stupefaction. We have gone from that already qualify at the time of Banana Autonomy in the last term of government to a kind of tambourine that is able to carry, thanks to Chair Department itself, the court Generalitat, in a move unusual and disturbing, very worrying. Banana Autonomy During watched in disbelief as the autonominado “rule by the best” dancing to markets and multinationals. So if the last October 17 had to award the contract of Aguas Ter Llobregat (ATLL) hastily, on October 26 was indicative presidency to the Department of Territory and Sustainability and slowed the claiming process needed a complete analysis of the two bids submitted by ACCIONA and AGBAR, finally, the November 6 , ACCIONA awarded the concession; ridiculous. Nor forget that the Administrative Office of Catalonia Contract Resources (OARCC) and suspended the award to ACCIONA last November 30 , but still within a few hours up to the suspension. It was evident that either are or markets are the interests of the multinationals who govern the water but not sure who did it is the government of Catalonia. Change of Territory and Sustainability Councillor expected, as was the submission of the Government of Catalonia to private interests. He who is not expected that the situation could deteriorate further, today January 4 Generalitat know that courts take the Generalitat, showing that not only sell state structures as was ATLL, but now put between that the state itself. Honestly … what sovereignty and right to decide we speak?. If we continue like this any State shall not claim nor govern. Given these facts, we are concerned about the role of the vast majority of political forces that shape the Catalan Parliament. We find a first opposition party who shuts and grants. And now a socialist party that talks about the defense of public services but in the Barcelona metropolitan area have accepted the privatization of water and sanitation following a even more unfair and opaque privatization of ATLL, incidentally also supported by the PP and ERC. Let us not mareen with puns, ambiguities or toast to the sun, since that really matter are the facts and consistency: not valid excuses, not only responsible but also those who do that can help it, let them do. Faced with a government of the Generalitat to improvise, and shuns negligent acts of its functions such as ensuring water pubic services, which guarantee the fundamental rights of citizens, we ask the Parliament of Catalonia to stop this sad spectacle and to recover sanity: permanently keep Ter Llobregat Water as a public company since water is essential for life and for any reason or no technical or economic, let alone social environment or to continue with its privatization; not allow an essential commodity like water is becoming a tax revenue collection that serves to pay interest and repay bank waste of public administration and, In short, the Government abandon its submission to markets and private interests for the good of the people you have chosen. Otherwise Catalan society who will have to recover the functions delegated to each political representatives who shun. It will be the people themselves who will have to manage water services directly, transparent and participatory, who shall ensure that the general interest of the public. The Aigua Platform is life and the entities that are part continue our work for public water management, transparent and participatory and the good ecological status of water bodies of Catalonia. Our work aims to be proactive and open-minded. Informed of everything we know about water. Even so, we will use all legal and administrative resources available to us when we see objectively that violate the principles of environmental justice and / or social, and continue to work on building a broad social movement that peacefully regain solid arguments get which by law and common sense we share. Water Ter Llobregat or ACCIONA or AGBAR, Water Ter Llobregat PUBLIC!http://www.twitpic.com/bvlg5b
#union #iww #ows #p2 #tlot #tcot Nancy Tucker shared Too Informed To Vote Republican's photo: But of course the mental health care (as well as medical care) that Obamacare would provide is being resisted by the GOP Governors. Our Fla. Gov. Rick Scott just refused his cooperation to implement this for our state. Thanks again Gov. Scott … you continue to betray your citizens in order to “hang with” your GOP cronies (who, by the way, know that you are SUCH an idiot that they have disassocated themselves from you). You are a disgrace and 2014 can't come soon enough … so we can boot your sorry butt out of office. What is your current approval level now … about 3%?http://www.twitpic.com/bmn453