ike most other little kids, all I wanted to do was eat junk food, play video games, and goof around with my friends. I didn't like being made to go to school, going to bed at 9 PM, eating vegetables, doing homework after school, or taking out the garbage. And ...
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Blogger Profile: Carl Gibson
Carl Gibson, 24, of Lexington, Kentucky, is a spokesman and organizer for US Uncut, a nonviolent, creative direct action movement to stop budget cuts by getting corporations to pay their fair share of taxes. He graduated from Morehead State University in 2009 with a B.A. in Journalism before starting the first US Uncut group in Jackson, Mississippi in February of 2011. Since then, over 20,000 US Uncut activists have carried out more than 300 actions in over 100 cities nationwide.
Carl Gibson's Blogs
The Speech I Wish Obama Would Deliver
Good evening, my fellow Americans. This week marks the 220th Anniversary of the signing of the Bill of Rights. This historic document, ratified in 1791, guaranteed all of us the freedoms that became the bedrock of our Republic. We separated ourselves from despotic regimes the world over by guaranteeing our ...
s the lead Republican negotiator during the manufactured debt crisis, Eric Cantor had the podium all summer long. He walked out of the early debt talks, insisting on a cuts-only solution. The House Majority Leader readily dismissed sensible proposals like ending billions in wasteful tax giveaways for corporations and the ...
The Corporatocracy is the 1 Percent
In October of 2003 Steve Jobs first learned that he had pancreatic cancer. His doctors and family members urged, even pleaded with him to have surgery, but he opted instead to try alternative and natural remedies. It was a decision he would later regret. America is faced with a similar ...
In Les Confessions, Rousseau wrote, "Finally I recalled the stopgap solution of a great princess who was told that the peasants had no bread, and who responded: 'Let them eat cake.'" This 1782 quote has become the iconic slogan of class oppression by the ruling elite. While the right cries ...
hat would you say to a family financial adviser who suggested your wisest investment would be to liquidate your own retirement account and empty out your kids' college fund to buy your wealthy cousin a new Bentley? Would you go ahead and gamble with your life savings in hopes that ...
GOP's Debt Solution: Soak the Poor
magine a bulky schoolyard bully routinely holding you and your classmates upside-down by your shoes and pocketing the money that falls out, using the amount gained from his extortion to buy a new bike at the end of each semester. Now imagine enduring this process every day, all year, throughout ...
America is Crumbling: Hire Us to Fix It
The drought in Texas is so severe that this month, the city of Kemp shut off the city’s water, leaving hundreds of people in the small North Texas town without a basic necessity for two days. Kemp’s pipes haven’t been updated since the 1930s. Consecutive weeks of 100-degree days have ...
Austerity: The Wrong Prescription
If you were a patient in intensive care, sick and in pain, what would you say to a doctor whose only recommendation was cutting off your blood supply, meals and therapy, and redirecting your pain medicine to another patient who was already healthy and well? Would you follow your doctor's ...
ALEC: Democracy's Arch-Nemesis
In the buildup to the bloodiest war of the 20th century, Benito Mussolini said, "Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power." He is one of history's most reviled characters for good reason. Now, corporations like Koch Industries are funneling money into ...
Time for Congress to End Big Oil Subsidies
In Mario Puzo's The Godfather, a character named Don Fanucci is known as a ruthless, greedy black hand extortionist who skims a regular "protection" fee from those who operate in his neighborhood. Fanucci even threatened to disfigure the daughter of a man who refused to pay him, or allow him ...
What if there was a group of terrorists holding your family hostage with a gun pointed at themselves, demanding the account number to your pension fund? Would you negotiate with the terrorists by allowing them access to your savings, or would you let them shoot themselves and keep your retirement ...
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May 6th, 2013
Join Operation Green Jobs, from May 18 to May 24
An upcoming action this month is simultaneously taking on the unemployment crisis, the climate crisis, and the corporate corruption of Congress crisis all at once. ...
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May 4th, 2013
What Do the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Al-Qaeda Have in Common?
Crossposted from Reader Supported News Answer: Both aren't above killing people to attain their goals. In 2009, Congress considered a bill that would have strengthened ...
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April 26th, 2013
If a math textbook that never underwent an official academic review and was proven to contain basic factual inaccuracies were nonetheless used by an entire ...
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April 16th, 2013
Carlos Arredondo, Boston and the World's Hero
As men, we're taught not to cry. But the story of Carlos Arredondo made me cry. Carlos, a Costa Rican immigrant, became a naturalized American ...
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April 15th, 2013
President Obama: One Corporate Puppet Among Many
This year, the New Deal turned 80. And those same New Deal programs championed by FDR, a Democrat, defined the bedrock of the American left ...
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April 4th, 2013
How the Government Killed Martin Luther King, Jr.
Before scoffing at this headline, you should know that in 1999, in Memphis, Tennessee, more than three decades after MLK's death, a jury found local, ...
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January 7th, 2013
Cut Corporate Welfare, Not the Safety Net
f your boat is sinking, do you blame the bird sitting on the railing, or on the gallons of water spewing from a gaping hole ...
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April 26th, 2013
If a math textbook that never underwent an official academic review and was proven to contain basic factual inaccuracies were nonetheless used by an entire ...
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April 15th, 2013
President Obama: One Corporate Puppet Among Many
This year, the New Deal turned 80. And those same New Deal programs championed by FDR, a Democrat, defined the bedrock of the American left ...
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January 9th, 2012
ike most other little kids, all I wanted to do was eat junk food, play video games, and goof around with my friends. I didn't ...
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October 5th, 2011
In Les Confessions, Rousseau wrote, "Finally I recalled the stopgap solution of a great princess who was told that the peasants had no bread, and ...
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August 10th, 2011
Austerity: The Wrong Prescription
If you were a patient in intensive care, sick and in pain, what would you say to a doctor whose only recommendation was cutting off ...
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April 4th, 2013
How the Government Killed Martin Luther King, Jr.
Before scoffing at this headline, you should know that in 1999, in Memphis, Tennessee, more than three decades after MLK's death, a jury found local, ...
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May 4th, 2013
What Do the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Al-Qaeda Have in Common?
Crossposted from Reader Supported News Answer: Both aren't above killing people to attain their goals. In 2009, Congress considered a bill that would have strengthened ...
