May 17
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Dissident Voice, May 17th, 2013 Every week we are inspired by the many people throughout the country who are doing excellent work to challenge the power structure and put forward a new path for the country. The popular resistance to plutocracy, concentrated wealth and corporatism is decentralized, creative and …
May 16
By Kevin Zeese The People’s Voice, May 16, 2013 More than three million people have been arrested on marijuana charges, at a rate of 90 per hour, during the Obama era. Marijuana was first made illegal by the federal government in 1937, 76 years ago. This year when the National Drug Control Strategy was released, …
May 15
By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese Truthout, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 Black farmers protest at Lafayette Park across from the White House in Washington, D.C. on September 22, 1997. Protesters alleged the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) denied black farmers equal access to farm loans and assistance based on their race. North Carolina farmer Timothy Pigford and …
May 15
May 15, 2013 By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Originally published in Before It’s News The weekly news is like a recurring bad dream that is becoming an even worse nightmare. While the investor class cheers a rising stock market, the rest of us sink. The headline that jumped out at us this week came …
May 10
Stephen D. Melkisethian (CC BY-ND 2.0) A sign from the Forward On Climate Rally in Washington DC, February 17, 2013. By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Truthdig, May 10, 2013 As more people see that the government represents Wall Street and concentrated wealth, instead of them; that the government continues to give the banksters who crashed the economy a …
May 08
By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese Truthout, May 8, 2013 This article is the continuation of a series on remaking our financial system so that itserves and protects people instead of the “too big to fail or jail” banks, collectively called big finance. More and more people see that the current financial system rewards those who hoard their …
May 08
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers WEDNESDAY, 08 MAY 2013 Published in Real News Recently, news reporters have been sounding almost giddy, saying that unemployment is dropping, housing prices are rising and the stock market is growing to new highs. But, these reports do not ring true with what people see around them. When you look …
May 04
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Dissident Voice, May 3rd, 2013 Yesterday, a media outlet contacted us to be on a show about how Occupy had “fizzled coming into this year’s May 1”. The media keeps looking for encampments or last year’s protests and is missing how popular resistance is growing and demonstrating all over …
May 01
Tuesday, 30 April 2013 By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Truthout | Op-Ed More people are taking action in their communities to meet their basic needs because of government corruption at all levels that protects the status quo when urgent change is needed. People are moving on many fronts to challenge the system and create the world …
May 01
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Eurasia Review, May 1, 2013 This past week of economic news reveals both the ruthlessness of big finance capitalism on people and the planet and that people are working for alternative, more just and sustainable, solutions. At the top of the list is more research on austerity. The Reinhart …