Forum: Activism, Strategy, Progress
January 7-9
Hudson, NY

(a messaged, cash-flow boycott to bring all U.S. soldiers home from the illegal war on Iraq)

Old Testament religions are setup to preserve the Ruling Class - Worker Bee model, which began about 8,500 years ago. Old Testament religions are about legitimizing land ownership, taxes, the exploitation of natural resources, social stratification, and wealth generation; not about spirituality. Civilization is the domestication of humans by other humans.

New York City,2004-5
The New Year is approaching I'm thinking of the old year while the new old frijola refritos president is slouching toward the podium the poor are starving the cold is making them ice sculptures... Their faces flash-frozen like K-mart mixed vegitables.
Their expression they bear witness to the dispair and horror when the Bush-man grinned and then gripped. Kissed Rice, then his daughters popped the champaign bottle....

While the official vote recount in Ohio found only several hundred additional votes for the Democratic Presidential candidates, activists continue to push for an examination of voting irregularities in the state. Not only were thousands of voters denied the opportunity to vote due to huge lines in African-American neigbhorhoods, but exit polls show far different results than that recorded on electronic voting machines that lack a verifiable trail. Electoral reform advocates are seeking Democratic members of Congress to protest the vote on Jan. 6. Calls are urged to Sens. Clinton and Schumer.

Seymour Melman, 86, one of the first social critics to contend that excessive military spending has "depleted" the U.S. economy, diverting investment capital, scientific know-how and natural resources from sorely needed domestic improvements, died of an apparent aneurysm Dec. 16 at his home in New York. Melman's work was detailed and he challenged what President Eisenhower called the "military-industrial complex" like that of no other academic. He would show how talented scientific and engineering skills were sucked into this permanent war economy to the detriment of civilian jobs and economic development as if people's well-being mattered. "To eliminate hunger in America = $4-5 billion = C-5A aircraft program," he would say, referring to Lockheed Martin's chronically bungled, defective and costly contract.

We live in times of a nearly universal political contempt. Regardless of party, politicians always work for others, for those with enough money to pay for their services, hardly those who voted for them.. The only common denominator is betrayal.

Most Americans who rely on just a full-time job earning the federal minimum wage cannot afford the rent and utilities on a one- or two-bedroom apartment, an advocacy group on low-income housing reported Monday. For a two-bedroom rental alone, the typical worker must earn at least $15.37 an hour _ nearly three times the federal minimum wage