-
Fresh Dispatches From The Culture Wars
-
-
-
Category Archives: Main Street Movement
Square Deal
Share the post “Square Deal”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail The term “fair deal” has been bandied about of late, but I like “square deal” because it resonates with all the issues wrapped up in the fight over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Both a … Continue reading
Occupy Valley Forge
Share the post “Occupy Valley Forge”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail While nonpartisan frustration with the direction of occupation protests had begun to mount, the movement was already planning an organized retreat to Winter quarters. In an essay on activism as kulturkampf, Micah White writes at Adbusters: … Continue reading
Occupy for the Little Guy
Share the post "Occupy for the Little Guy"
Share the post “Occupy for the Little Guy”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThis is the most encouraging possible transition for Occupy protests to make. Decamping the parks and bivouacking in the front yards of fraudulent-foreclosure victims brings the activism right to Main Street, USA, where the … Continue reading
Posted in Main Street Movement, nonviolence, Occupy America
Leave a comment
Occupy Voting Booths
Share the post “Occupy Voting Booths”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Clausewitz observed that war was the continuation of politics by other means. At this blog, we have observed many times how politics seem to become a furtherance of warfare by other means. Politics is … Continue reading
This Is How We Move America
Share the post "This Is How We Move America"
Share the post “This Is How We Move America”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailRemember this while police across the country try and fail to shut down the Occupation movement:
Posted in Main Street Movement
Leave a comment
Youth Always Lead The Way
Share the post "Youth Always Lead The Way"
Share the post “Youth Always Lead The Way”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailWatch Chris Hayes, via C&L: No, Egypt and America are not the same country. But it doesn’t matter; today’s young, progressive generation is reaching adulthood and finding it a far heavier burden than … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, education, globalization, Main Street Movement
Leave a comment
Morning Awful: Let Lewis Speak
Share the post "Morning Awful: Let Lewis Speak"
Share the post “Morning Awful: Let Lewis Speak”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Late joiners are often the most important ones. The gates of the movement have to open up and let people in, and that includes latecomers. That includes the ones who hold offices … Continue reading
Posted in Main Street Movement
3 Comments
The Buffet Rule Is In The American Jobs Act
Share the post "The Buffet Rule Is In The American Jobs Act"
Share the post “The Buffet Rule Is In The American Jobs Act”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailSave 400,000 teaching jobs? Create 1.9 million jobs? Restore vital infrastructure? Nope, Eric Cantor won’t even put the bill up for a vote. Yet the president refuses to quit, … Continue reading
Posted in 11-Dimensional Chess, Main Street Movement
3 Comments
How To Occupy Main Street From Wall Street
Share the post "How To Occupy Main Street From Wall Street"
Share the post “How To Occupy Main Street From Wall Street”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail I’m hardly “power elite” or “establishment media,” but apparently I’m a “liberal scold” when it comes to occupying Wall Street. Kevin Gosztola on the crowd in Liberty Park, via … Continue reading
Occupying Main Street, Not Just Wall Street
Share the post "Occupying Main Street, Not Just Wall Street"
Share the post “Occupying Main Street, Not Just Wall Street”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailLos Angeles bus riders joined the National Day of Action to stop 37% cuts in federal public transit outlays. Breaking out of “issue silos” means bringing groups like this into the … Continue reading
Posted in Main Street Movement, Transportation
Tagged austerity, budget cuts, buses, public transportation, transit
Leave a comment
This Is The Problem
Share the post “This Is The Problem”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThe Nelsons. No, not the crappy singing duo with the long white hair. The senators from Nebraska and Florida, playing like swing votes: Florida Sen. Bill Nelson, who is up for reelection in 2012, … Continue reading
Posted in 11-Dimensional Chess, Congress, Main Street Movement
2 Comments
