Chuck Spinney: Manufacturing Dissent – The Rise of the Tea Party as an Elite Front – Opposite of OWS

Below is an excellent interview with Anthony DiMaggio in Counterpunch.  DiMaggio author of The Rise of the Tea Party, due out in November 2011. He uses the “propaganda model” developed by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman in their book Manufacturing Consent to document and explain the Tea Party’s organizational dynamics for manufacturing dissent, and he …

Electoral Reform Working Group Preliminary 2 Pages (Full Text Online for Google Translate)

The People Before the Parties Preliminary two pages from NYC General Assembly Working Group on Politics & Electoral Reform, date of information 27 October 2011. The centralization of political power in the hands of two narrow factions at all levels of government is neither democratic nor republican. No party system whatsoever is mandated by the …

Robert Steele: YouTubes on Electoral Reform Road Trip – An Unconventional Asymmetric Response to the Two-Party Tyranny

20111027  General Strike Meme, Ralph Nader Quo Vadis, Act on the Agenda in NYC (3:12) 20111026 Seven Promises to America – Raising the Bar for 2012 (5:15) 20111026 An Asymmetric Response to the Two-Party Tyranny (2:06) 20111025  NYC GA Weekly Meeting on Electoral Reform – Act on Agenda (1:20) 201110-25 Electoral Reform Road Trip + …

Robert Steele: Electoral Reform Road Trip – Pass It On! And Imagine Every Voter Doing $10 a Year Subscription for Democracy…

After four years constructive unemployment, largely due to the illegal and abusive practices of DIA and DOHA that are being taken to court–I feel called to focus on Electoral Reform. Here is the short URL for a campaign to raise $10,000 to take Electoral Reform hand-outs and stimulate electoral reform dialog across America, visiting each …

#OWS #ElectoralReform Strategy Memorandum

Restoring the Republic – One  People – One Voice – One Community Grand Strategy is about combining means (inputs) and ways to achieve ends (outcomes). In very general terms, the strategic outcomes that appear to be sought by the mélange of participants in the emerging nation-wide—even global—rebellion against the existing system—center around social justice as …