please call Dr. Coburn's office (Washington: 202-224-5754; Tulsa: 918-581-7651; Oklahoma City: 405-231-4941) fb.me/1a1EBJ2Z7
Sen. Coburn: ‘Good Thing I Can’t Pack A Gun On The Senate Floor’ | In yet another example of disturbing rhetoric from the GOP, yesterday Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) intimated that he’d like to threaten physical violence against his Senate colleagues, saying, “It’s just a good thing I can’t pack a gun on the Senate floor.” During a tour of Northeast Oklahoma, Coburn also called his fellow senators “career elitists” and “cowards.” After the Tucson shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) that claimed the lives of six people, there were renewed calls for elected officials to tamp down allusions to violence and be more cautious and respectful when talking about their colleagues, but Sen. Coburn apparently has no such concern. His cavalier remarks come only days after Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) used menacing language about the Federal Reserve Chairman.
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Showing posts with label non violence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label non violence. Show all posts
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Saturday, April 16, 2011
~ Reminder of the Day: R.I.P. Medgar Evers ~
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medgar_Evers
Give it a good read before MAKE THEM PAY action day! We can end the crime, the corruption, and the social unacceptability of putting profit$ before people ...
". . . Evers applied to the then-segregated University of Mississippi Law School in February 1954. When his application was rejected, Evers filed a lawsuit against the university, and became the focus of an NAACP campaign to desegregate the school, a case aided by theUnited States Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education 347 U.S. 483 that segregation was unconstitutional. That same year, due to his involvement, the NAACP's National Office suggested he become Mississippi’s first field secretary for the NAACP."
Bytch puhleassee, you want a muthafukkin history lesson the let's have it...
Emmett Till ( the correct spelling) son of Louis Till and Mamie Till Bradley Mobley a school teacher from Chicago, Illinois sent by his mother to spend the summer in Mississippi with his uncle Moses Wright. Till not being very familiar with the unwritten rules of the south was at a store one day dared by his cousin and several other youth to whistle at a woman Carolyn Bryant. Taken from his uncle's house in the wee hours of the morning to a shed where he was beaten and shot and tied to a cotton gin which sank him to the bottom of the Tallahatchie River. His mother insisted on an open casket to "show the world what they had done to her boy". Did you also know his cousin Maurice was jealous of him and stories of his encounters with white women in Chicago egged him on knowing ths would get him into serious trouble. Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were found not guilty.
Rosewood yeah know all about it.
Freedom's name is mighty sweet soon one day were gonna meet keep your eyes on the prize hold on. Saw it more times than I count over the last 20 years.
Medgar Evers civil rights activist murdered in his driveway in Jackson, Mississippi by Byron De La beckwith in 1963. De La Beckwith was found guilty of the murder in 1994. His wife Myrlie Evers-Williams was chairman of the NAACP from 1995-1998.
4 little girls killed in bombing at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL in 1963. Killed were Addie Mae Collins - 14, Cynthia Wesley - 14, Carole Robertson - 14 and Denise Mcnair - 11. Robert Chambliss aka Dynamite Bob was convicted in 1978. Two others were convicted in 2001 and 2002.
The leevees were blown up after Katrina to protect the French Quarter just as it was after Hurricane Betsy in 1965.
Eleanor Bumpers a black woman killed in the Bronx in 1984 shot by police officers who came to evict her from her apartment.
Amadou Diallo an immigrant killed by New York police who fired a total on 41 shots in the Bronx in 1999.
Who and what other piece of black history do you want to talk about...
Give it a good read before MAKE THEM PAY action day! We can end the crime, the corruption, and the social unacceptability of putting profit$ before people ...
". . . Evers applied to the then-segregated University of Mississippi Law School in February 1954. When his application was rejected, Evers filed a lawsuit against the university, and became the focus of an NAACP campaign to desegregate the school, a case aided by theUnited States Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education 347 U.S. 483 that segregation was unconstitutional. That same year, due to his involvement, the NAACP's National Office suggested he become Mississippi’s first field secretary for the NAACP."
Do you know who Emmit Till is? Do you know there are towns in America right now, and people who are still living who spent there weekends at lynch a ****** night? And they are not in jail and my muthafucking tax dollars are paying their social security?   Have you seen Eyes on the Prize? Do know who Megar Evers is? Do you know about those 4 Little Girls? Do you know that black folk were left to die in the 9th Ward during Hurricane Katrina after the levies broke? Do you know who Ellenor Bumpers is? How about Armado Diallo? Patrick Dorsemond... Do you know that your people were brought here on slave ships robbed of your name and your culture so much so that you had to adopt a new name and culture and the very roots you defend for others were taken from you as you are more than likely a result of the rape and pillage of your people? Your ignorant ass is about to get me to crying up in here. Not for them but for YOU.Read...and not LSA!... |
Emmett Till ( the correct spelling) son of Louis Till and Mamie Till Bradley Mobley a school teacher from Chicago, Illinois sent by his mother to spend the summer in Mississippi with his uncle Moses Wright. Till not being very familiar with the unwritten rules of the south was at a store one day dared by his cousin and several other youth to whistle at a woman Carolyn Bryant. Taken from his uncle's house in the wee hours of the morning to a shed where he was beaten and shot and tied to a cotton gin which sank him to the bottom of the Tallahatchie River. His mother insisted on an open casket to "show the world what they had done to her boy". Did you also know his cousin Maurice was jealous of him and stories of his encounters with white women in Chicago egged him on knowing ths would get him into serious trouble. Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were found not guilty.
Rosewood yeah know all about it.
Freedom's name is mighty sweet soon one day were gonna meet keep your eyes on the prize hold on. Saw it more times than I count over the last 20 years.
Medgar Evers civil rights activist murdered in his driveway in Jackson, Mississippi by Byron De La beckwith in 1963. De La Beckwith was found guilty of the murder in 1994. His wife Myrlie Evers-Williams was chairman of the NAACP from 1995-1998.
4 little girls killed in bombing at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL in 1963. Killed were Addie Mae Collins - 14, Cynthia Wesley - 14, Carole Robertson - 14 and Denise Mcnair - 11. Robert Chambliss aka Dynamite Bob was convicted in 1978. Two others were convicted in 2001 and 2002.
The leevees were blown up after Katrina to protect the French Quarter just as it was after Hurricane Betsy in 1965.
Eleanor Bumpers a black woman killed in the Bronx in 1984 shot by police officers who came to evict her from her apartment.
Amadou Diallo an immigrant killed by New York police who fired a total on 41 shots in the Bronx in 1999.
Who and what other piece of black history do you want to talk about...
Saturday, February 19, 2011
SAY NO TO THE CUTS, END CORPORATE TAX AVOIDANCE
Washington’s proposed budget for the coming year sends a clear message: The wrath of budget cuts will fall upon the shoulders of hard-working Americans.
Obama seeks to trim http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/13/ usa-budget obamaidUSN1323655420110213">$1.1 trillion</a> from the
budget in the next ten years by cutting or eliminating over 200
federal programs, many dedicated to social services and education. For
instance, it cuts in half funding to subsidize heating for low-income
Americans; limits an expansion of the Pell grant program for students;
and <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2011/02/budget-2012-
environmental-prot.html">decreases</a> Environmental Protection Agency
funding by over 12%.
Meanwhile, Republicans are using their new House majority to slash
spending even more brutally. The GOP has made it clear that they are
bent on raiding funds for Social Security, Medicare, education;
determined to kill <a href="http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/
20110219/NEWS01/102190303/1002/rss/House-adopts-Rehberg-measure-defund-
health-care-law?odyssey=nav|head">health care reform</a>; and gut
needed investments in infrastructure, climate change and job creation,
at a time when America needs it most.
These cuts will come on top of very painful austerity measures made at
the state-level across our nation–-<a href ="http://www.cbpp.org/cms/
index.cfm?fa=view&id=711">worth hundreds of billions</a>--since the
recession began.
In short, budget cuts demonstrate that Washington has abandoned
ordinary Americans.
<b>But there is an alternative: Make corporate tax avoiders pay.</b>
Enjoying record profits and taxpayer-funded bailouts as the economy
slowly recovers from a financial crisis, <a href="http://money.cnn.com/
2008/08/12/news/economy/corporate_taxes/">nearly two-thirds</a> of US
corporations don't pay any income taxes, instead opting to abuse tax
loopholes and offshore tax havens. According to <a href="http://
levin.senate.gov/newsroom/supporting/2009/PSI.GAOtaxhavensreport.
011609.pdf">this study</a> from the non-partisan Government
Accountability Office, 83 of the top 100 publicly traded corporations
that operate in the US exploit corporate tax havens. Since 2009,
America’s most profitable companies such as <a href="http:// motherjones.com/mojo/2010/04/exxon-mobil-paid-zero-income-tax-offshore %20shelter-wal-mart-general-electric-forbes">ExxonMobil</a>, <a
href="http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/16/news/companies/
ge_7000_tax_returns/">General Electric</a>, <a href="http://
www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/03/26/91119/bank-of-america-wells-fargo-migh...">Bank
of America</a> and <a href="http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Citigroup_
%28C%29/Data/Deferred_Income_Taxes/2010/Q3">Citigroup</a> all paid a
grand total of $0 in federal income taxes to Uncle Sam. Tax havens
alone account for up to <a href="http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/
Citigroup_%28C%29/Data/Deferred_Income_Taxes/2010/Q3">$1 trillion</a>
in tax revenue lost every decade, money that could be invested in K-12
education, colleges, public health, job creation and hundreds of other
worthy public programs.
If we pay our taxes, why don’t they? If corporations profit here,
shouldn't they pay here?
It’s time for ordinary Americans to fight back and demand an end to
the corporate tax avoidance.
II. CALL TO ACTION
US Uncut is calling for a national day of non-violent direct action
across on Saturday, February 26 2011. Groups of citizen volunteers in
cities throughout the U.S. will take actions targeting Bank of America
branches demanding that it pays its fair share.
If there is a Bank of America in your city, then it is the central
target for action on Saturday. (If there is not, then choose another
target locally; the website should have more information on other key
corporations soon.) In the years leading up to 2007, Bank of America
played a major hand in creating the largest financial crisis in recent
history, and it has received generous bailouts and avoided both
accountability and restitution. On top of that, it has doled out <a
href="http://www.seiu.org/2010/12/big-banks-bonus-bonanza.php">$35
billion</a> in bonuses and grew bigger as the largest bank in the
country, holding over <a href="http://www.ffiec.gov/nicpubweb/nicweb/
top50form.aspx">$2.2 trillion in total assets</a>. <b>Since 2008, Bank
of America has shown a negative income tax rate. This means that not
only have they not paid any taxes, they have received <a href="http://
www.nhregister.com/articles/2011/02/15/business/bb6_bizbankofamerica0...">$15
billion</a> from the US government.</b>
Our sister organization UK Uncut (who inspired this very movement, and
whom we are acting in solidarity with on the 26th) has provided a
great suggestion for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHg3-
xYJlI">how to execute a direct action at a bank</a>:
These <a href="http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/actions/organise">two</a> <a
href="http://brightonuncut.wordpress.com/da-training/">links</a>
should also be helpful, until US Uncut has more on the website.
Stay tuned to US Uncut for more ideas for actions and for downloadable
flyers that can spread a coordinated message.
III: GENERAL GUIDING PRINCIPLES
1. We are trying to protect and improve the quality of life for
ordinary people that is currently threatened by an unfair tax code for
corporations.
2. Visit US Uncut’s website with regularity (but again, please be
patient while things start up), follow US Uncut on twitter.
3. All chapters use the logo as a sign of solidarity, which will reach
global proportions very soon. We are using a branding strategy that
corporations use -- against them.
4. US Uncut does not support violence against people or property.
5. Point 4 does not mean we cannot be forceful or assertive.
6. There is unique and enormous power in acting in unity, so where
possible, we will coordinate actions through the website.
7. Chapters, like anyone, are free to act autonomously.
8. US Uncut and its chapters are a non-hierarchical and decentralized
structure. Its success must rest on shared values, identity and
commitment.
9. By abiding by these values, creative and autonomous action can
flourish, as people can act independently.
10. Creativity is vital
US Uncut is a horizontal movement. There are no centrally planned protests. If you want one in your town or city, you'll have to take it on yourself. Read http://www.usuncut.org/blog/how-to-organise-an-action our blog about how to organize an action and visit our http://www.usuncut.org/actions to list it.
Also remember to visithttp://www.ukuncut.org.uk" UK Uncut for some inspiration.
See you on the streets.
International Day of Action: February 26th 2011
Washington’s proposed budget for the coming year sends a clear message: The wrath of budget cuts will fall upon the shoulders of hard-working Americans.
Obama seeks to trim http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/13/ usa-budget obamaidUSN1323655420110213">$1.1 trillion</a> from the
budget in the next ten years by cutting or eliminating over 200
federal programs, many dedicated to social services and education. For
instance, it cuts in half funding to subsidize heating for low-income
Americans; limits an expansion of the Pell grant program for students;
and <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2011/02/budget-2012-
environmental-prot.html">decreases</a> Environmental Protection Agency
funding by over 12%.
Meanwhile, Republicans are using their new House majority to slash
spending even more brutally. The GOP has made it clear that they are
bent on raiding funds for Social Security, Medicare, education;
determined to kill <a href="http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/
20110219/NEWS01/102190303/1002/rss/House-adopts-Rehberg-measure-defund-
health-care-law?odyssey=nav|head">health care reform</a>; and gut
needed investments in infrastructure, climate change and job creation,
at a time when America needs it most.
These cuts will come on top of very painful austerity measures made at
the state-level across our nation–-<a href ="http://www.cbpp.org/cms/
index.cfm?fa=view&id=711">worth hundreds of billions</a>--since the
recession began.
In short, budget cuts demonstrate that Washington has abandoned
ordinary Americans.
<b>But there is an alternative: Make corporate tax avoiders pay.</b>
Enjoying record profits and taxpayer-funded bailouts as the economy
slowly recovers from a financial crisis, <a href="http://money.cnn.com/
2008/08/12/news/economy/corporate_taxes/">nearly two-thirds</a> of US
corporations don't pay any income taxes, instead opting to abuse tax
loopholes and offshore tax havens. According to <a href="http://
levin.senate.gov/newsroom/supporting/2009/PSI.GAOtaxhavensreport.
011609.pdf">this study</a> from the non-partisan Government
Accountability Office, 83 of the top 100 publicly traded corporations
that operate in the US exploit corporate tax havens. Since 2009,
America’s most profitable companies such as <a href="http:// motherjones.com/mojo/2010/04/exxon-mobil-paid-zero-income-tax-offshore %20shelter-wal-mart-general-electric-forbes">ExxonMobil</a>, <a
href="http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/16/news/companies/
ge_7000_tax_returns/">General Electric</a>, <a href="http://
www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/03/26/91119/bank-of-america-wells-fargo-migh...">Bank
of America</a> and <a href="http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Citigroup_
%28C%29/Data/Deferred_Income_Taxes/2010/Q3">Citigroup</a> all paid a
grand total of $0 in federal income taxes to Uncle Sam. Tax havens
alone account for up to <a href="http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/
Citigroup_%28C%29/Data/Deferred_Income_Taxes/2010/Q3">$1 trillion</a>
in tax revenue lost every decade, money that could be invested in K-12
education, colleges, public health, job creation and hundreds of other
worthy public programs.
If we pay our taxes, why don’t they? If corporations profit here,
shouldn't they pay here?
It’s time for ordinary Americans to fight back and demand an end to
the corporate tax avoidance.
II. CALL TO ACTION
US Uncut is calling for a national day of non-violent direct action
across on Saturday, February 26 2011. Groups of citizen volunteers in
cities throughout the U.S. will take actions targeting Bank of America
branches demanding that it pays its fair share.
If there is a Bank of America in your city, then it is the central
target for action on Saturday. (If there is not, then choose another
target locally; the website should have more information on other key
corporations soon.) In the years leading up to 2007, Bank of America
played a major hand in creating the largest financial crisis in recent
history, and it has received generous bailouts and avoided both
accountability and restitution. On top of that, it has doled out <a
href="http://www.seiu.org/2010/12/big-banks-bonus-bonanza.php">$35
billion</a> in bonuses and grew bigger as the largest bank in the
country, holding over <a href="http://www.ffiec.gov/nicpubweb/nicweb/
top50form.aspx">$2.2 trillion in total assets</a>. <b>Since 2008, Bank
of America has shown a negative income tax rate. This means that not
only have they not paid any taxes, they have received <a href="http://
www.nhregister.com/articles/2011/02/15/business/bb6_bizbankofamerica0...">$15
billion</a> from the US government.</b>
Our sister organization UK Uncut (who inspired this very movement, and
whom we are acting in solidarity with on the 26th) has provided a
great suggestion for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHg3-
xYJlI">how to execute a direct action at a bank</a>:
These <a href="http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/actions/organise">two</a> <a
href="http://brightonuncut.wordpress.com/da-training/">links</a>
should also be helpful, until US Uncut has more on the website.
Stay tuned to US Uncut for more ideas for actions and for downloadable
flyers that can spread a coordinated message.
III: GENERAL GUIDING PRINCIPLES
1. We are trying to protect and improve the quality of life for
ordinary people that is currently threatened by an unfair tax code for
corporations.
2. Visit US Uncut’s website with regularity (but again, please be
patient while things start up), follow US Uncut on twitter.
3. All chapters use the logo as a sign of solidarity, which will reach
global proportions very soon. We are using a branding strategy that
corporations use -- against them.
4. US Uncut does not support violence against people or property.
5. Point 4 does not mean we cannot be forceful or assertive.
6. There is unique and enormous power in acting in unity, so where
possible, we will coordinate actions through the website.
7. Chapters, like anyone, are free to act autonomously.
8. US Uncut and its chapters are a non-hierarchical and decentralized
structure. Its success must rest on shared values, identity and
commitment.
9. By abiding by these values, creative and autonomous action can
flourish, as people can act independently.
10. Creativity is vital
US Uncut is a horizontal movement. There are no centrally planned protests. If you want one in your town or city, you'll have to take it on yourself. Read http://www.usuncut.org/blog/how-to-organise-an-action our blog about how to organize an action and visit our http://www.usuncut.org/actions to list it.
Also remember to visithttp://www.ukuncut.org.uk" UK Uncut for some inspiration.
See you on the streets.
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