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OWS & ACT UP Demand Wall Street Ante Up

By Jennifer Slattery On April 16, 2012 | 1 Comments

One of our volunteers, Jennifer Slattery, is heading back to the Occupy Wall Street site in New York and will be reporting live via twitter. Check back frequently to see what is going on at #OWS! There will be a LIVE "Occupy Your Future" twitter feed where you will be able to see what is happening on the ground at #OWS.

ACT UP X OCCUPY After a long winter, it's time to go back to Wall St. for this activist. And I am very excited about the first action I will be attending this Spring:

To commemorate its 25th anniversary, ACT UP (the activist group that took on AIDS issues in the 80's) will team up with Occupy Wall Street to hold a massive demonstration and march on Wall Street. Why Wall Street? Because the corruption of the corporate class has a ripple effect throughout our society that goes far beyond jobs, and debt. The crisis they cause leads to human suffering. On Wednesday, April 25 we will gather at City Hall and march on Wall Street. Act Up, in many ways, served as a model for the Occupy movement's leaderless, non-violent, and creative, direct action tactics. It is an honor to not only carry on their fight, but to have them stand beside us, and teach us from within our own ranks.

When I first arrived at Liberty Square six months ago, reporters asked me what real solutions I personally wanted to be achieved by protesting. My answer, repeatedly, was the need for a Financial Transaction Tax. None of the reporters ever printed my answer, instead running the same lie over and over for months: no one at Occupy has any ideas, no solutions. That was a lie, and I know because I heard many others talking about the same thing. We never stopped talking about it, and the media may choose to ignore us, but we will only get louder. A "Financial Speculation Tax" (Fi.S.T.) on Wall Street will be our rallying cry with Act Up on the 25th.

USUncut Calls for a Day of Action Feb. 26

By Sandy Haksi On February 23, 2011 | 0 Comments

Make Corporations Pay Back What They Stole on Feb.26!

Wisconsin is currently acting as the front lines in a push back for workers' rights that sees the state government trying to rip up collective bargaining as a budget balancing measure, or at least that's what they're calling it. More likely, it's the Shock Doctrine in action as an ideologically driven right-wing leader tries to ram through unpopular measures using the economy as cover, the hell with democracy.

There's a lot of things wrong with this picture and it seems clear there is a political agenda at work that is completely divorced from dollars and sense. (Alternet and Huffington Post are keeping tabs on the action and have good coverage.)

But the good news is that it has clearly hit a nerve and solidarity actions are emerging across the country. People seem to have hit their breaking point and are fed up with corporations and the rich getting handouts while everyone else gets the shaft. All this has helped gain support for a new movement to call out corporate tax dodgers: USUncut.

The Corporation - Still Going Strong! New Screenings, New Films!

By Katherine Dodds On May 01, 2010 | 0 Comments

UPCOMING: The Corporation is screening at Toronto's Hot Docs in the "Ripping Reality" program, in the company of other such classics as Darwin's Nightmare, The Fog of War, and Iraq in Fragments.
Sunday, May 09, 2010 - 12:30 pm, Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue.

SOME ACHBAR EXEC PRODUCED FILMS COMING SOON TO DOXA IN VANCOUVER! read on...

Oh, The Corporation! One of the things I have always noted is the staying power of this film. Yes, it's the "film that wouldn't die," quips Mark Achbar, who still seems surprised by this. Surprise, and fatigue after all these years notwithstanding, he's gone on to support a lot more films through The Corporation's influence.