My great grandfather paved over 84 acres of pristine Sonoran desert to build a shopping mall. My family became wealthy buying, selling and developing stolen Native American land. I have always had more than I need because I was born into privilege.
I am sick of the violence of capitalism: poverty, war, police repression, ecological destruction, consumerism and selfishness. We can do better than this. A fundamental restructuring of our economy will benefit everyone, even us in the 1%.
I would rather give my great grandchildren an inheritance of a healthy environment, an intact and caring community and a REAL democracy than give them money made from the exploitation of people and the natural world.
Tax me. Reverse the Citizens United case.
Corporations are NOT people.
Get Wall Street out of Washington.
I am the 1%. I stand with the 99%.
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That’s right… a second veteran has been injured, pretty severely at Occupy Oakland. Kayvan Sabehgi, who has served with the Army in Iraq and Afghanistan, was apparently beaten by three or four policeman after being told to move (and having nowhere to move to). He was arrested and jailed, despite being in poor medical condition and a considerable amount of pain. He is currently in intensive care with a lacerated spleen, let out on bail 18 hours after his arrest.
Read the story at the Guardian.
(Above photo of police forming a line at Occupy Oakland. Credit: Kimihiro Hoshino/AP)
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(By: anthonyturducken)
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