US Uncut and The Other 98% want corporations to pay the taxes they owe
March 11, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I have told you about the new non-partisan group called US Uncut — named after UK Uncut — which aims in part to challenge the tea party's push for lower corporate taxes. They instead want Congress stop letting wealthy corporations dodge their taxes. Nonpartisan organization 'US Uncut' to demand corporations pay taxes.
Thom Hartmann explains ‘corporate personhood’ and the battle to save democracy
March 11, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Thom Hartmann, author of "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became 'People' and How You Can Fight Back," explains the fiction of "corporate personhood" in Unequal Protection: The Battle to Save Democracy (excerpt): Given all this context and history, a reasonable person would probably conclude that the Reconstruction Amendments—particularly the Fourteenth Amendment—were designed to grant rights
Kos: The Must See Chart (This Is What Class War Looks Like)
March 11, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Daily Kos has a post by greywolfe359 that puts this class war into perspective. Daily Kos: The Must See Chart (This Is What Class War Looks Like): I just wanted to get this chart out there. I originally received it as a post by the Facebook group "The Christian Left." This chart
Wisconsin students call for nationwide student walkout on Friday at 2:00 p.m.
March 11, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: OpEdNews – Article: Protest the Wisconsin Coup! Nationwide Student Walkout, Friday @ 2:00: Wisconsin High School students have called for a Nationwide Student Walkout in protest of the Wisconsin coup, tomorrow at 2:00 local time. High school students in Madison, Wisconsin will walk out of class this Friday, March 11th at 2:00
Then they came for the trade unionists…
March 11, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: William Rivers Pitt writes an essay on the exact same thing I was thinking as I was watching the coup d'etat in Wisconsin on Wednesday. Then They Came for the Trade Unionists: On this day, it behooves us to remember the words of Martin Niemoller. "First they came for the communists," he wrote, "and I didn't speak out
Maricopa County Losing Influence*
March 10, 2011
By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings * Maricopa County is still Arizona's "big dog" and is still growing, but AZ's other "dogs" grew more from 2000 to 2010. Given that the overall "pie" of Arizona didn't get any bigger, that means that Maricopa is getting a slightly smaller part of that pie. Over a
Arizona’s census data released
March 10, 2011
By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings I'm still sorting through the data – it's available on the Census website as three very large zipped files and is a bit of a pain in the _ _ _ to work with. However, Ronald Hansen of the Arizona Republic already has a story up. It contains
Subprime testing, balloon payment scoring and NCLB
March 10, 2011
by David Safier Obama's Ed Sec said over 80% of schools could miss their AYP (adequate yearly progress) this year, up from 37% last year. Does that mean schools are getting worse? In a word, no. It's all about balloon payment NCLB scoring. No Child Left Behind set a target starting in 2002 of all
