LES MISBARACK: * Several white people, more specifically white MEN I know, say they do not think Obama can win because OTHER white people (not they, you understand) will not vote Black. I have finally figured it out: they mean THEY THEMSELVES will not vote Black. * Whiteman, get over it. Your future earnings are … More Victor Hugo
Please see this interview (on video and in transcript) of Howard Zinn discussing the bailout. He confirms my point of view and he is an expert. Certain grownups keep telling me this is just a market downturn of which we should think nothing. Like that compound fracture in your leg, which is just a scratch, … More Howard Zinn
Obama ’08 – Vote For Hope from MC Yogi on Vimeo. Via Momo. As cool as Mt. Tamalpais. As majestic as Drake’s Bay. Axé.
…from reposting this, and pointing everyone to Momo‘s posts on this matter. In one apartment we used to move the dining table to one side and try to imitate the Four Tops. The hit sound! From Motown! we would shout. * Other great posts now include Historiann on single payer health care and videos of … More I Can’t Help Myself
Do you think it would do the world some good if we first boycotted the top 10 Fortune 500 companies, and then started boycotting more of them? The current top 10, with 2007 gross revenues in millions, are: 1. Wal-Mart Stores: $378,799 2. Exxon Mobil: $372,824 3. Chevron: $210,783 4. General Motors: $182,347 5. ConocoPhillips: … More Toward a Post-Growth World
This is blog action day on poverty. Like Geoffrey Philp, who explains blog action day, I am blogging for Haiti – land of Toussaint L’Ouverture. The Changeseeker has numerous informative posts on Haiti, with excellent video links. This video shows how to make Haitian mud pies. Mud is what many there eat in the absence … More On Mud Cookies in Haiti
…je vestirai. The state will refund 50% of your solar installation costs up to $25,000, and the Federal tax credit is 30%. I cannot easily gather $25,000 to pay up front to covert my electrical system to a solar one. This in my case might not eliminate all electrical bills, and solar panel technology is … More Ma verte cotte
Everyone needs your time and money right now, I know. But it is important to DEFEAT MEASURE 11 IN SOUTH DAKOTA and women there need your help. Consider it, and consider phone banking for Obama this weekend. One point of phone banking now is to get people to vote early – that is that much … More Alert. En Vida
He said in part, in a letter to Paulson: “Any plan to clean up the mess on Wall Street must: “1. Ensure that middle income and working families are not the ones who are paying for this bailout by “a. Imposing a five-year, 10 percent surtax on income over $1 million a year for couples … More Bernie Sanders
1. No volunteers are men and only I am white. 2. I thought we would be phoning locally but we are phoning the upper Midwest. 3. I am far less comfortable with this than with local get out the vote phoning. 4. This really is work and I am not in my element with telemarketing. … More Live Blogging a MoveOn Organizing “Party” for Obama
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