December 31, 2012
December 18, 2012
December 15, 2012
Marx and Keynes
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Vanguard: Fully Automatic America
Vanguard explores Camden New Jersey, Knob Creek Kentucky, and other places to investigate guns and gun laws in America.
via Current.com
via Current.com
December 13, 2012
December 12, 2012
Naked Force used against Democracy in Michigan
Michigan really is an experiment in Fascism. Already, municipal governments are being shut down by state-appointed "emergency management" officials, and towns no longer have control over their own municipal budgets, over their own schools, over anything.
Now, this:
Protesters take the Capitol Building:
Protesters locked out of the capitol building:
Police use pepper spray against protesters:
Michigan Union Member peppersprayed, stepped on by a horse:
via the Michigan ACLU
Now, this:
Protesters take the Capitol Building:
Protesters locked out of the capitol building:
Police use pepper spray against protesters:
Michigan Union Member peppersprayed, stepped on by a horse:
via the Michigan ACLU
December 11, 2012
December 7, 2012
A Message to Bloomberg from Residents of Rockaways,
When grandma is pissed and joins the side of the revolution, the elite should be scared out of their minds.
December 5, 2012
Thomas Cox: Former Banking Lawyer, now helping people keep their homes
via the Portland Press Herald:
Cox, 68, uncovered the practice of "robo-signing," in which mortgage servicer employees
signed affidavits in support of foreclosure without reviewing the relevant records. He had previously worked in private practice for banks that specialized in debt collection and foreclosures.
Cox was volunteering with Pine Tree Legal Assistance in 2009 when he took of the case of Nicolle Bradbury, a Denmark woman whose home was being foreclosed upon by GMAC Mortgage. Cox figured out that the company's "limited signing officer" had signed thousands of foreclosure affidavits in 23 states without knowing about the cases.
GMAC suspended foreclosure activity in September 2010 and JP Morgan/Chase, Citibank and PNC Bank followed suit. Earlier this year, the country's five largest mortgage services agreed to a $25 billion settlement.
Cox is now building a network of lawyers to do pro bono work. He works in Portland at Maine Attorneys Saving Homes, a joint project of Pine Tree Legal Assistance and the Maine Volunteer Lawyers Project.
December 2, 2012
NYPD Officer Speaks Out Against Police Corruption
Top NYPD Cop tells his officers that in a perfect world, the community would be a ghost town with all the bodies in jail.
NYPD cop secretly records evidence of a ticket and arrest quota system .... A must see:
NYPD cop secretly records evidence of a ticket and arrest quota system .... A must see:
December 1, 2012
November 30, 2012
Why Bradley Manning Should Be Free
via AcroynmTV
Bradley Manning Support Network http://www.bradleymanning.org
Sign and share this: http://www.bradleymanning.org/news/sign-daniel-ellsbergs-petition-to-free-bra...
Julian Assange writing about the trail, said "Thursday, November 29th, Bradley Manning testified for the first time since his arrest two and a half years ago in Baghdad. Today also marks the two-year anniversary of the first front pages around the world from Cablegate, an archive of 251,287 U.S. State Department diplomatic cables -- messages sent between the State Department and its embassies, consulates and diplomatic missions around the world. In collaboration with a network of more than 100 press outlets we revealed the full spectrum of techniques used by the United States to exert itself around the world. The young intelligence analyst Bradley Manning was detained as an alleged source."
November 29, 2012
Josh Fox: Occupy Sandy
via acronymTV
For the past month we have come together to support and rebuild communities broken by Hurricane Sandy. As Sharon Lerner wrote in the American Prospect, “the storm handed inequality activists an almost eerily perfect illustration of exactly what they see as wrong with our world.”
In this vein, over Thanksgiving Occupy Sandy joined with communities to share over 10,000 meals. Now we begin to come together to connect the dots from the storm, to climate change, to the reckless greed of the 1%-ers at the forefront of the fossil fuel industry.
The work is far from over, so join us. You can check out the Occupy Sandy Relief NYC Facebook page to get started, or follow @OccupySandy on Twitter.
November 26, 2012
Fox News shuts journalist Tom Ricks down for going off script
Journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas Ricks was brought on to talk Benghazi. His response caused the interview to be ended immediately. Watch:
via Media Matters
via Media Matters
November 23, 2012
Walmart Actions Today:
In Maine (collaboration between Occupy Maine + Southern Maine Worker's Center + Maine Green Independent Party):
In New York City(Occupy Wall Street:
In New York City(Occupy Wall Street:
November 21, 2012
Support the Hostess Strike!
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Conservative Pundit Ben Stein attacked on Fox News, called a "Communist"
The degree to which the extreme right-wing is out of touch with reality is well represented here, in this following clip:
What Ben Stein is arguing for is Austerity, and I do not necessarily agree that we need to cut spending (some government spending actually grows the economy significantly, some government spending is wasteful, you can't paint it all with the same brush).
But the fact that Ben Stein is called a "communist" for saying that taxes need to be raised slightly on the richest among us, is just proof of how totally out of touch the right-wing is. Their economic policies are a matter of religion-- not science.
And now the cult of "small government" is eating it's own.
What Ben Stein is arguing for is Austerity, and I do not necessarily agree that we need to cut spending (some government spending actually grows the economy significantly, some government spending is wasteful, you can't paint it all with the same brush).
But the fact that Ben Stein is called a "communist" for saying that taxes need to be raised slightly on the richest among us, is just proof of how totally out of touch the right-wing is. Their economic policies are a matter of religion-- not science.
And now the cult of "small government" is eating it's own.
November 16, 2012
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November 10, 2012
I'm Back! -- Fairness
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A big thank you!
I want to thank the following awesome people for supporting the punk patriot show in the past:
Brian Bergman
Maike Both
Living on Live Food
Cathy Miller
Jason Dawson
Catherine Esposito
Deborah Henry
Cheryl Keil
Sophia Batchelor
Michelle Duffy
Eric Kroczek
Rex Pechler
Thank you for your support in the past. You helped to subsidize my unpaid work as an activist these past 8 months and for that I am ever grateful.
And a big thank you to my current sustaining donors who have continued supporting my work despite my recent inability to produce videos on a consistent basis. That changes now that the election is over. Your donations range from $1 a month, to $20 a month, but you are all equally appreciated. Thank you to:
K.E. Harleston
PE Nolan of Roundtree7
Cathy Miller
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Stephen Totten
William Hopkins of NH Peace Action
Kelly Houghland
Gary Hildreth
To become a sustaining donor:
and a thank you to one time donors like
Joseph Sak
Harold Ade
Vincent Daniels
Jacob Brown
Damien Zufferey
Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream
Bill Moyer of the Backbone Campaign
Pat Taub of Code Pink
Aleph Craven
John Brunt
Mad Mod Vintage
Heather Pelham
Anthony Couture
Rosalie Paul, co-founder of the U.S. Green Party
and
Norman va der Sluys
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Brian Bergman
Maike Both
Living on Live Food
Cathy Miller
Jason Dawson
Catherine Esposito
Deborah Henry
Cheryl Keil
Sophia Batchelor
Michelle Duffy
Eric Kroczek
Rex Pechler
Thank you for your support in the past. You helped to subsidize my unpaid work as an activist these past 8 months and for that I am ever grateful.
And a big thank you to my current sustaining donors who have continued supporting my work despite my recent inability to produce videos on a consistent basis. That changes now that the election is over. Your donations range from $1 a month, to $20 a month, but you are all equally appreciated. Thank you to:
K.E. Harleston
PE Nolan of Roundtree7
Cathy Miller
Michael Briggs of Gutterh Records
Stephen Totten
William Hopkins of NH Peace Action
Kelly Houghland
Gary Hildreth
To become a sustaining donor:
and a thank you to one time donors like
Joseph Sak
Harold Ade
Vincent Daniels
Jacob Brown
Damien Zufferey
Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream
Bill Moyer of the Backbone Campaign
Pat Taub of Code Pink
Aleph Craven
John Brunt
Mad Mod Vintage
Heather Pelham
Anthony Couture
Rosalie Paul, co-founder of the U.S. Green Party
and
Norman va der Sluys
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Faultlines: How the Whitehouse was won
This is an excellent documentary about the election in the United States and how terribly flawed our electoral system is. It makes all the work put into the Coalition Against Nukes rally in Washington D.C. and the Jill Stein campaign all the more relevant and worthwhile. Thanks to Al Jazeera for exposing the truth of what is at work in America and giving real Democracy a voice. http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/faultlines/2012/11/20121189229485930.html
November 9, 2012
Ze Frank on "Hacking Power"
Yes, it starts out about paper towels, but it's not really about paper towels, is it?
November 4, 2012
November 3, 2012
Open letter to Voters from Labor Activists: VOTE GREEN
Working Americans and organized labor face an unprecedented bipartisan attack by the Democrats and Republicans in this November’s elections.
As long-time labor activists, we urge a vote for the Green Party national ticket of Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala.
The cornerstone of Jill Stein's Presidential campaign is a Green New Deal.
The cornerstone of Jill Stein's Presidential campaign is a Green New Deal.
The Green New Deal includes strong support for workers’ rights, including the rights to a living wage, to a safe workplace, to fair trade, and to organize a union at work without fear of firing or reprisal. It supports real financial reform, not only to make the rich and large corporations pay their fair share of taxes, but to establish democratic control of our economy rather than leaving Wall Street in the driver's seat.
For more than three decades, there has been bipartisan agreement to shift more income and wealth to the richest Americans, while living standards for the rest of us have declined. Income inequality has reached levels not seen since 1927 – right before the Great Depression. The economic crisis caused by the greed and misdeeds of Wall Street resulted in a trillion-dollar bailout of bankers, while the housing foreclosure crisis was ignored.
With more than 25 million Americans out of work, the response of politicians at the state, local and national level has been to cut spending for education, housing, and the safety net, threatening cuts to Social Security and Medicare in order to protect tax cuts for the rich and wasteful military spending. Democrats like Governor Cuomo in NY have joined with Republicans like Governor Walker in Wisconsin to make public employee unions into public enemy number one, seeking to slash pensions and wages while laying off teachers and other workers.
Democrats are always the “friend” of labor – during election season. Yet it was Bill Clinton who gave us NAFTA. The Democrats in 1947 gave us the anti-labor Taft-Hartley Act – and they have defeated changes to it ever since.
For more than three decades, there has been bipartisan agreement to shift more income and wealth to the richest Americans, while living standards for the rest of us have declined. Income inequality has reached levels not seen since 1927 – right before the Great Depression. The economic crisis caused by the greed and misdeeds of Wall Street resulted in a trillion-dollar bailout of bankers, while the housing foreclosure crisis was ignored.
With more than 25 million Americans out of work, the response of politicians at the state, local and national level has been to cut spending for education, housing, and the safety net, threatening cuts to Social Security and Medicare in order to protect tax cuts for the rich and wasteful military spending. Democrats like Governor Cuomo in NY have joined with Republicans like Governor Walker in Wisconsin to make public employee unions into public enemy number one, seeking to slash pensions and wages while laying off teachers and other workers.
Democrats are always the “friend” of labor – during election season. Yet it was Bill Clinton who gave us NAFTA. The Democrats in 1947 gave us the anti-labor Taft-Hartley Act – and they have defeated changes to it ever since.
Barack Obama promised a $10/hour minimum wage and the Employee Free Choice Act for majority card-check union recognition – but failed to push either once elected.
The labor movement in every other industrial nation has built its own political party, independent of corporate money and control. They have organized the working class majority to take political power for the benefit of workers and economic justice. They have secured single-payer health care, affordable public transit, free public college education, secure pensions, four to six weeks of paid vacation for all workers, paid maternity and free sick leave, and labor laws that protect their rights to organize and strike.
It is time for labor to practice the politics of courage, rather than the politics of fear and appeasement. We must support candidates who back labor when they run against the two corporate parties. We urge a vote for Jill Stein and the Green New Deal and Economic Bill of Rights this November.
It is time for labor to practice the politics of courage, rather than the politics of fear and appeasement. We must support candidates who back labor when they run against the two corporate parties. We urge a vote for Jill Stein and the Green New Deal and Economic Bill of Rights this November.
Yours in Solidarity,
Jim Moran, Director (retired), Philadelphia Area Project on Occupational Safety and Health
Justin Harrison, CWA Local 13000 Unit 1 President
Justin Harrison, CWA Local 13000 Unit 1 President
Allan Herman, IATSE Local 927 Executive Board member
Steve Edwards, former president, AFSCME Local 2858 (ret.) Chicago IL
Tom Crean, chapter leader, United Federation of Teachers, New York City
Tom Crean, chapter leader, United Federation of Teachers, New York City
Marty Harrison, Executive Board member TUHNA/PASNAP (Temple University Hospital Nurses Association/ Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals)
David Myron, Michigan Education Association (MEA/NEA); Former Local President, Perry Education Association
Mike McCallister, National Writers Union Local 1981, Former Chair, South Central Wisconsin Labor Party
Charlie Hoyt, Labor Activist, New York, NY
Hugh Giordano, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 152 Mays Landing, New Jersey
Sunyata Altenor, Committee of Interns and Residents New York City
Charles Post, Professional Staff Caucus New York City
Warren Davis, American Federation of Government Employees Local 2006 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (retired)
Eric Hoyt, Graduate Employees Organization, Amherst, Massachussetts
Karen Young, Newspaper Guild, CWA New York, NY
Frank Jackson, GEO-UAW 2334 Amherst, MA
Howie Hawkins, Teamsters Local 317 Syracuse, New York
Barry Eidlin, United Faculty and Academic Staff, Madison WI
Marie Stolzenburg, Teaching Assistants Association, AFT Madison, WI
Nick Limbeck, Chicago Teachers Union, Chicago, IL
Mark Dunlea, Hunger Action Network New York, NY
Ron Dicks, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, San Francisco, CA
Ashok Kumar, Labor Activist, Former member Dane County Board, Madison, WI
Brian Rothgery, Labor Activist, Milwaukee, WI
Patrick Burke, Western Mass. Jobs with Justice, Springfield, MA
Charles Levenstein, Massachusetts Teachers Association (retired)
Isaac Silver, labor activist, Chicago, IL
Ron Dicks, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, San Francisco, CA
Ashok Kumar, Labor Activist, Former member Dane County Board, Madison, WI
Brian Rothgery, Labor Activist, Milwaukee, WI
Patrick Burke, Western Mass. Jobs with Justice, Springfield, MA
Charles Levenstein, Massachusetts Teachers Association (retired)
Isaac Silver, labor activist, Chicago, IL
Jonathan Fluck, Actors' Equity Association, New York City
Danielle Albert, Labor Activist, New York City
Chris Robinson, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1776 Philadelphia PA
Trudy Quaif, Public Employees Federation steward (retired), Albany, NY
George McAnanama, Transport Workers Union Local 100 (retired) New York City
Jonathon Flanders, International Association of Machinists, LL 1145 Troy, NY
Neal Pritchard, United Steel Workers Local 1000, Corning NY
John Ailey, Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees (SOAR), IL
Mike Whalen, UNITE-HERE, Local 17 (retired) St Paul, Minnesota
Gordon McClelland, Labor Educator, Carpenters (retired), Guilderland NY
Danielle Albert, Labor Activist, New York City
Chris Robinson, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1776 Philadelphia PA
Trudy Quaif, Public Employees Federation steward (retired), Albany, NY
George McAnanama, Transport Workers Union Local 100 (retired) New York City
Jonathon Flanders, International Association of Machinists, LL 1145 Troy, NY
Neal Pritchard, United Steel Workers Local 1000, Corning NY
John Ailey, Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees (SOAR), IL
Mike Whalen, UNITE-HERE, Local 17 (retired) St Paul, Minnesota
Gordon McClelland, Labor Educator, Carpenters (retired), Guilderland NY
Francesca Gomes, Delegate, United Federation of Teachers, Brooklyn, NY
Genevieve Morse, Shop Steward CSU, Massachusetts Teachers Association,
National Education Association
Genevieve Morse, Shop Steward CSU, Massachusetts Teachers Association,
National Education Association
Kshama Sawant, American Federation of Teachers Local 1789, Seattle, WA
Sarah & Ben Manski, American Federation of Teachers, Madison, Wisconsin
Seamus Whelan, MNA/NNU Massachusetts Nurses Association/ National Nurses United
Frango Akrivos, Teamsters Local 1L New York
Greg Beiter, Shop Steward, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 587
Greg Beiter, Shop Steward, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 587
*Organizations are listed for identification purposes only.
For further reading:
Solidarity with Indiana workers, 2/6/2012
Statement on International Migrants Day, 12/19/2011
November 1, 2012
October 31, 2012
Acronym TV: Open Letter to John Kerry
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October 29, 2012
October 24, 2012
ACRONYM: Who won the 3rd Debate?
Well the debate season is over and the consensus is clear, Romney won the first debate, Obama won the second debate, and in the final scripted pageant, the topic of which was foreign policy- the clear, undisputed, hands down winner was the Bush Doctrine.
Among the other topics not ever discussed in any of the debates this season: Corporate money in our elections, NDAA, Bailouts, Wall Street immunity to prosecution. Instead, what we saw last night in the foreign policy debate between Romney and Obama were two men shadow boxing in shades of grey who both agree with the Bush doctrine.
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Among the other topics not ever discussed in any of the debates this season: Corporate money in our elections, NDAA, Bailouts, Wall Street immunity to prosecution. Instead, what we saw last night in the foreign policy debate between Romney and Obama were two men shadow boxing in shades of grey who both agree with the Bush doctrine.
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Donate $10 a month to support ACRONYM TV.
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October 23, 2012
October 21, 2012
October 18, 2012
DemocracyNOW! Covers Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala's arrest at the Presidential Debate
The Commission On Presidential Debates should be called "Omission of Presidential Debates"
October 17, 2012
Lee Camp interviews Jill Stein
Jill Stein after a fundraiser in NYC, the day before being arrested for being on the grounds of the Presidential Debate while Green Party:
Jill was on my show as well back in May:
Jill was on my show as well back in May:
October 16, 2012
October 15, 2012
October 14, 2012
October 11, 2012
Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers, Lee Camp, and the Transpacific Partnership
SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THE TRANSPACIFIC PARTNERSHIP
October 10, 2012
If we allow gay marriage, ducks will rule the world
via 6000.co.za
Is this serious? Or a brilliant piece of satire? Impossible to tell. #PoesLaw
(I too was homeschooled, and wrote satire like this to local newspapers, so personally, think it's brilliant satire)
Is this serious? Or a brilliant piece of satire? Impossible to tell. #PoesLaw
(I too was homeschooled, and wrote satire like this to local newspapers, so personally, think it's brilliant satire)
October 9, 2012
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