LOCAL FIGHTS AGAINST AUSTERITY ARE GROWING ACROSS THE U.S.

BY MARK VORPAHL Between sequestration, with its damaging impact on workers and the economy, and the billions of dollars in cuts to Social Security, Medicare and other necessary social programs that President Obama is pushing, it is evident that the economic policies of both major parties are not intended to promote a recovery for working people. You cannot lift up a nation’s economy while slashing away at its consumers’ pocketbooks. [...]

 

 
 
 

UC Berkeley Students In Defense of Public Education

Corporations are killing public education right before your eyes. The Regents of the University of California are not elected, but appointed. Most are heads of major corporations and represent the interests of those corporations, not of the students or of the state of California. While claiming that the university has no money, Regents waste untold millions on pet construction projects that only line the pockets of their corporate cronies. On [...]

 

Occupy Oakland Statement of Solidarity With the People of Greece

(Passed by the Occupy Oakland General Assembly 2/19/2012) Occupy Oakland stands in solidarity with the ninety-nine percent in Greece. We support your struggle against the austerity measures imposed by one percenters both foreign and domestic; policies which will plunge your country into a depression and lead to economic ruin. Truly, European banks are being bailed out while an entire nation is being sold out. From Oakland to Athens, those who [...]