#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty 1K Kentuckians Get Medical Debt Wiped Away THANKS TO OCCUPY OFFSHOOT http://www.newser.com/story/166764/1k-kentuckians-get-medical-debt-wiped-away.html This is a protest that's easy to get behind: 1,064 Louisville-area residents have had their medical debts erased, thanks to what the Courier-Journal describes as a protest against the credit industry. The Rolling Jubilee Fund's intent is “to buy and abolish personal debt,” per its VP, and it did so in a big way this month: by purchasing and then eliminating more than million of debt. The individual bills of to ,790 had been owed to area doctors and were sold to collection agencies and other third parties after they went unpaid. The nonprofit purchased the debt from those third parties usin…http://www.twitpic.com/cmrdzt
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #TeaParty Jim McCormick: Conman sold golf ball finders as bomb detectors in 'diabolical' £60m scam which put lives at risk http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jim-mccormick-conman-sold-fake-1850330 The former trainee cop duped everyone from foreign police forces to the UN in 20 countries in the scam branded “diabolical” by investigators Peddling his fake bomb detecting device around the globe, Jim McCormick duped guards and troops into believing it could save lives at trouble spots. But the crooked dealer was actually putting thousands of them at risk with his bogus machine that was nothing more than a £13 golf ball finder unable to locate anything deadly. And as security officers and soldiers faced death or serious injury, McCormick lined his po…http://www.twitpic.com/clhi3a
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Here It Is: One Beacon Court's New 5 Million Listing http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/04/10/here_it_is_one_beacon_courts_new_115_million_listing.php Can One Beacon Court—king of the flip, but otherwise a somewhat boring Midtown building beloved by business-world billionaires—sell for 5 million an apartment that most recently sold for around million? We're about to find out! Hedge funder Steven Cohen of SAC Capital Advisors has, as promised, formally listed his One Beacon pad, the building's only duplex, for that whopping 5M price tag. The apartment received a Gwathmey Siegel renovation that leaves us a little cold, though Cohen's odd art collection (minus the head made of frozen blood, which is maybe a little much for a listing pic) enlivens thing…http://www.twitpic.com/cioudq
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty New Art in Bryant Park; Park Slope Conversion Hits 70% Sold http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/03/14/new_art_in_bryant_park_park_slope_conversion_hits_70_sold.php PARK SLOPE—After Park Union announced that it was 50 percent sold two weeks ago, the Catholic school turned 15-unit condo development has now hit the 70 percent mark. That's pretty speedy, considering they went on the market five months ago, but there is a lot of demand in that neighborhood and there aren't that many residences to sell. Then again, who wouldn't want a “pre-war inspired” apartment? There are four left, ranging from a 1BR/1BA for 9,000 to a 3BR/2.5BA penthouse listed at at .15 million. [CurbedWire Inbox; official]http://www.twitpic.com/cbdr6r
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Students Occupy University President’s Office To Protest Naming Stadium After Private Prison Company http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/02/26/1637921/students-occupy-university-presidents-office-to-protest-naming-stadium-after-private-prison-company/ Last week, the administration of Florida Atlantic University raised eyebrows when officials announced that they had sold the naming rights to the school’s new football stadium to the GEO Group, the nation’s second-largest private prison company. And students aren’t taking the deal lying down. On Monday afternoon, dozens of activists staged a sit-in inside university President Mary Jo Saunders’ office demanding FAU revoke their agreement with GEO Group. After two hours, Saunders agreed to schedule a public meeting with the university community, according to the Palm …http://www.twitpic.com/c75hut
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #teaparty [VIDEO] Make some noise about land grabs http://www.oxfam.org/en/grow/make-some-noise-about-land-grabs Oxfam campaigners across the world ‘land grabbed’ famous landmarks on 7 February, to raise awareness about the impact of land grabs. Browse and share these images and get the World Bank to take action, now. What you can do Share the images on Twitter and social media, and ask @WorldBank to put a hold on land deals. Sign the petition to Jim Kim, World Bank president, and ask the World Bank to freeze its investment in land deals. Why we’re doing this Imagine if a place you love in your local area was taken from you and sold off. No warnings. No compensation. And nothing you could do about it. You’d be outraged. You’d call it an in…http://www.twitpic.com/c3tgj1
#union #iww #ows #occupy #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot Volvo’s new partner blacklisted http://www.goteborgdaily.se/news/volvo-s-new-partner-blacklisted Volvo’s new Chinese partner Dongfeng has been blacklisted by a Swedish state pension fund as it has illegally sold military equipment to embargoed nations, reports the Swedish news programme TV 4 Ekonominyheterna. “They are really the wrong partner for Volvo,” said Anna Ek, head of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society, to TV 4. At the weekend, Volvo announced that it had purchased a 45 per cent share in Dongfeng Commercial Vehicles, a new subsidiary of the Dongfeng Motor Corporation. The deal, which was worth nearly 6 billion kronor, sees Volvo become the world’s largest maker of heavy-duty trucks. It was Sweden’s Seventh AP f…http://www.twitpic.com/bze3h7
#union #iww #ows #occupy #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot Fordem Avenue building eyed by Occupy Madison being sold to another buyer http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=38916 Occupy Madison Inc.'s hopes to purchase a building at 2132 Fordem Ave. for a homeless housing project have been dashed. Brenda Konkel reports on a couple of local listservs that the group's “offer to purchase the building at 2132 Fordem Ave. has been rejected in favor of an alternate offer.” She notes that this is the second time the group seriously considered buying a building that was then “taken off the market.” In a brief interview, Konkel said that she understood why the seller would go with another buyer. “Our offer to purchase had too many contingencies,” she says. Occupy was hoping t…http://www.twitpic.com/bzev0j
#union #iww #ows #occupy #p2 #tlot #tcot Occupy The Polls originally shared this post: Getting the story out — Terry Messman and the power of activist journalism — http://wagingnonviolence.org/2013/01/getting-the-story-out-terry-messman-and-the-power-of-activist-journalism/ Stories are central to our existential job description: making sense of both the world and ourselves. From creation myths to scientific explanations, from political ideologies to the quirky narratives that knead our own amorphous lives into some kind of distinctive shape, stories are essential — not only because they nudge the disconnected bits of reality we face moment to moment into a plausible and graspable form, but because they go to the heart of our identity and purpose. … The monumental change we need will hinge on a new way of looking at the world, and this in turn will be spurred on by powerful stories that bring that new worldview alive. … One of our most powerful alternative storytellers is Terry Messman. Messman is the editor of Street Spirit, a monthly newspaper published by the American Friends Service Committee that is sold by 100 homeless vendors on the streets of Oakland, Calif. #StreetSpirit — http://www.thestreetspirit.org/ #Occupy #Oakland Collapse this posthttp://www.twitpic.com/bxyc40
#Homeland #union #iww #ows #occupy #p2 #tlot #tcot How to Easily Find Union-Made Tires http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Other-News/How-to-Easily-Find-Union-Made-Tires The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has made it very easy to find union-made tires by requiring that each tire carry a code that shows the company and the location of the plant that manufactured the tire. DOT requires that each tire sold in the United States carry a code that looks something like this: DOT BE XX XXX XXX. The two letters or numbers that follow the DOT identify a particular factory as listed below. BE: B.F. Goodrich, Tuscaloosa, Ala. BF: B.F. Goodrich, Woodburn, Ind. VE, YE, YU, 8B: Bridgestone/Firestone, Des Moines, Iowa D2, E3, W1, Y7: Bridgestone/Firestone, La Vergne, Tenn. 2C, 4D, 5D: Bridgestone/Firest…http://www.twitpic.com/bv1qvx