Dear folks,
Are we Americans dead or alive? If alive when will we wake up? Other peoples are taking to the streets, such as in Brazil, in Turkey, in Egypt, and even in Iran to rejoice when a moderate was elected president. We should be taking to the streets in the millions, stopping traffic, yes occupying not just wall street but the offices of every Republican in Congress, every Republican Governor and state legislators who are writing acts against women, the poor, unions. immigrants, students and children. Most of all when will we as a people say STOP to corporate and one percent folk wealth, STOP to a thirty year period in which unions have gone from 37% of the labor force to barely 9 and at same time middle class earnings have gained only five dollars in that same period?
We are only now realizing the extent to which the Republicans are wed to Big Corp through an organization called ALEC, The American Legislation Exchange Council. Check out Bill Moyer's interview from 21 June 2013 found HERE. ALEC is made up of corporate leaders and lobbyists and Republican legislators from Washington and from every state. Together they write "model" bills and plan campaigns that have now produced Republican dominance in many states that in the past have been blue. We hear that their legislation has had many goals: blocking union growth, women's needs, destroying unions, blocking student money,health care,, taxes, gun control, and have pushed the privatization of every state and city services including prisons, education, and without doubt, Chicago's parking fiasco. Why bother with Washington, they say, since, "we have now effectively stopped the Congress from functioning?" This is a frightening picture.
We had better wake up -- ourselves and our democratic leaders including our President Obama.
Love to all,
John Giannini
Are we Americans dead or alive? If alive when will we wake up? Other peoples are taking to the streets, such as in Brazil, in Turkey, in Egypt, and even in Iran to rejoice when a moderate was elected president. We should be taking to the streets in the millions, stopping traffic, yes occupying not just wall street but the offices of every Republican in Congress, every Republican Governor and state legislators who are writing acts against women, the poor, unions. immigrants, students and children. Most of all when will we as a people say STOP to corporate and one percent folk wealth, STOP to a thirty year period in which unions have gone from 37% of the labor force to barely 9 and at same time middle class earnings have gained only five dollars in that same period?
We are only now realizing the extent to which the Republicans are wed to Big Corp through an organization called ALEC, The American Legislation Exchange Council. Check out Bill Moyer's interview from 21 June 2013 found HERE. ALEC is made up of corporate leaders and lobbyists and Republican legislators from Washington and from every state. Together they write "model" bills and plan campaigns that have now produced Republican dominance in many states that in the past have been blue. We hear that their legislation has had many goals: blocking union growth, women's needs, destroying unions, blocking student money,health care,, taxes, gun control, and have pushed the privatization of every state and city services including prisons, education, and without doubt, Chicago's parking fiasco. Why bother with Washington, they say, since, "we have now effectively stopped the Congress from functioning?" This is a frightening picture.
We had better wake up -- ourselves and our democratic leaders including our President Obama.
Love to all,
John Giannini
