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.
Plutocrats Deserve Public Scorn
While sipping on an iced coffee and getting some work done in a Starbucks in the white, conservative, wealthy part of Connecticut, I kept hearing three old, white, conservative, wealthy Connecticut men carrying on about how the Senate doesn't work anymore because the Democrats haven't been able to pass a ...
The Oppressive Nature of "Small Government"
Rand Paul isn’t a libertarian, he just plays one on TV.The spat Kentucky’s junior US senator had with the TSA this week ignited a flurry of <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71818.html" target="_hplink">news coverage</a> on his supposed refusal of a full pat-down and subsequent confrontation with law enforcement. Paul’s spokesperson said he was “detained.” ...
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 ...
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 13th, 2012
Plutocrats Deserve Public Scorn
While sipping on an iced coffee and getting some work done in a Starbucks in the white, conservative, wealthy part of Connecticut, I kept hearing ...
January 28th, 2012
The Oppressive Nature of "Small Government"
Rand Paul isn’t a libertarian, he just plays one on TV.The spat Kentucky’s junior US senator had with the TSA this week ignited a flurry ...
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 ...
December 16th, 2011
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, ...
November 22nd, 2011
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 ...
November 1st, 2011
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
November 1st, 2011
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 ...
July 10th, 2011
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 ...
July 14th, 2011
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 ...
July 20th, 2011
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 ...
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