#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Beyond Interest Rates: What Would Real Student Debt Reform Look Like? http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Economy/Beyond-Interest-Rates-What-Would-Real-Student-Debt-Reform-Look-Like#disqus_thread If you have student loan debt or follow the politics of it, you're probably familiar with this deadline: On July 1, if Congress does nothing, the interest rates on subsidized federal Stafford loans will double from 3.4 to 6.8 percent. We absolutely don't want this to happen, since it would mean thousands of extra dollars of debt for many already low-income borrowers. Numerous proposals to address the looming rate doubling are being debated in Congress, and both sides of the aisle have already seen one bill each get voted down. But there's one thing all of these proposals have in common: They don't go nearly far enough to help students… RELATED: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/higher-education/news/2013/05/23/64254/proposals-to-bring-student-loan-interest-rates-under-control/http://www.twitpic.com/cxnal5
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty As Bradley Manning Trial Begins, Press Predictably Misses the Point http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/as-bradley-manning-trial-begins-press-predictably-misses-the-point-20130605 Well, the Bradley Manning trial has begun, and for the most part, the government couldn't have scripted the headlines any better. In the now-defunct Starz series Boss, there's a reporter character named “Sam Miller” played by actor Troy Garity who complains about lazy reporters who just blindly eat whatever storylines are fed to them by people in power. He called those sorts of stories Chumpbait. If the story is too easy, if you're doing a piece on a sensitive topic and factoids are not only reaching you freely, but publishing them is somehow not meeting much opposition from people up on high, then…http://www.twitpic.com/cwqkg4
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty From Tahrir to Occupy to Istanbul: An Anatomy of Current and Future Protest http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/tahrir-to-occupy-to-istanbul-an-anatomy-of-now-and-future-protest There's a sensational, controversial, and inspiring new protest movement out in full force in Turkey. Stunning images of police brutality are circulating the internet, demonstrators are organizing through social media channels, a vaunted public space lies at the heart of the protest, and the whole thing was likely precipitated at least in part due to income inequality. Deja vu, right? Of course, there are plenty of dissimilarities to Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring uprisings—there's an undercurrent of religious tension, for one, as the protesters appear to be primarily secular citize…http://www.twitpic.com/cvb5zm
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty I'M HUNTING DOWN THE FAT FETISHIST WHO HAS MY STOLEN LAPTOP http://www.vice.com/read/plumbergeddon?utm_source=vicetwitterus There's nothing like the feeling that washes over you when you realize you've had something important stolen. It's an unsettling blend of confusion and sorrow that should really only be reserved for the sudden death of a relative or times you watch Gaspar Noé films after a night of weird, powdered psychedelics. The worst thing about it is that, unless you're the Koch brothers and the stuff that's been pinched is the contents of your safe, it's unlikely that you're ever going to see your stolen belongings again. The police just don't have enough time to follow up every phone that goes missing at 4 AM. Howe…http://www.twitpic.com/csbwut
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Want to start the next Occupy revolution? There's an app for that http://rabble.ca/news/2013/05/want-to-start-next-occupy-revolution-theres-app Veteran filmmaker and Occupy activist Velcrow Ripper has launched a new app designed to inspire a new breed of Occupy protests. The app is part of the global release of Mr. Ripper's newest documentary Occupy Love, a film that traces the origins of the Occupy Movement and then explores the thematic relationships between the protests against Wall Street with other global movements such as the Arab Spring and the European Summer. “The real aim of the Occupy protests,” says Mr. Ripper, “goes deeper than politics. I believe that what we were showing out there, in a very new way, was the power of commun…http://www.twitpic.com/cqf93q
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Dreams shattered in Black America http://socialistworker.org/2010/03/15/dreams-shattered Today's foreclosure crisis in the African American community has been especially devastating–and there's a historical backdrop to connection between housing and racism. THE FORECLOSURE rate in Black and Latino communities is running at an astonishing rate. In Chicago, foreclosures increased by 18 percent in 2009, including 8,000 homes lost by Latinos and another 10,000 homes lost by African Americans. According to the Center for Responsible Lending, between 2009 and 2012, 1.3 million Latinos and 1.1 million African Americans are expected to lose their homes. The nonprofit Woodstock Institute attributes the disproportionate numbe…http://www.twitpic.com/cjfqzo
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Dan Loeb Simultaneously Solicits, Betrays Pension Funds http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/dan-loeb-simultaneously-solicits-betrays-pension-funds-20130411 There's confidence. There's chutzpah. And then there's Dan Loeb, hedge fund king extraordinaire and head of Third Point Capital, who's getting set to claim the World Heavyweight Championship of Balls. On April 18, Loeb will speak before the Council of Institutional Investors, a nonprofit association of pension funds, endowments, employee benefit funds, and foundations with collective assets of over trillion. The CII is an umbrella group that represents the institutions who manage the retirement and benefit funds of public and corporate employees all over America – from bricklayers to Teamsters to teachers t…http://www.twitpic.com/ciousg
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Want to Fix Your Job? There's a Way http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Organizing-Bargaining/Want-to-Fix-Your-Job-There-s-a-Way What if when you had a question or a concern about your workplace, you could go somewhere and get answers? Our friends at Working America, AFL-CIO's community affiliate, are launching a new site, www.FixMyJob.com, where every worker will have a resource to get more information or privately raise concerns about workplace issues. For FixMyJob.com to be successful, more information needs to be collected about people who work. Can you take a few minutes to answer some quick questions about your current job, or the last job you had? Fill out the quick survey now to share your story of work and to make sure FixMyJob.com becomes a po…http://www.twitpic.com/ceygz5
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Tribeca's Skylofts Penthouse Now Asking a Mere Million http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/03/26/tribecas_skylofts_penthouse_now_asking_a_mere_44_million.php The penthouse at 145 Hudson Street accomplished the hard work of boggling minds when it raised its price to million in 2012. It did not, however, accomplish the hard work of finding a buyer. Perhaps the PriceChopper could help with that! The apartment's new ask is million, just M below the price the Skylofts unit first sought in May 2011. The new price per square foot is ,872. The brokerbabble is epic and worth a read in itself, but we'll just do a quick recap: there's a 4,500-square-foot private terrace, a living room with 18-foot ceilings and a wood-burning fireplace, “museum-quality” polished…http://www.twitpic.com/cewaxz
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Live-Blogging the Senate Hearing on J.P. Morgan Chase and the Infamous 'London Whale' Episode http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/live-blogging-the-senate-hearing-on-j-p-morgan-chase-and-the-infamous-london-whale-episode-20130315 Sorry for the delay, folks — having some technical difficulties. Will be up in a moment. 9:39 a.m. Again, apologize for the delay, but we're underway. Today's Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Hearing concentrates on the infamous “London Whale” trades from last year. This is a story about Chase's failure to stop a rogue fund from hiding gigantic losses in its Synthetic Credit Portfolio. There's a huge backstory to this about Chase's repeated failures over its recent history to make changes to internal control procedures that would prevent things like this fr…http://www.twitpic.com/cciuta