Graphic: USA Economic Split from 1980 Onwards
Balance, Budgets & Funding, Citizen-Centered, Corruption, Political, Threats, True CostGraphic: Fascism USA Flag – Shocking First Time Image
Corruption, Threats
SourceGraphic: Map of Occupations Across USA
Citizen-Centered, Political, Reform
Event: Sept 29 NYC, Open Society, Who Controls the Message? Producing and Distributing Media Content in the Digital Age
Journalism/Free-Press/Censorship, Media, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth
Drawing on the Open Society Foundations' research into the worldwide impact of new and digital media, this forum will discuss the role that these evolving forms of media can play in the development and strengthening of democratic societies.
The discussion will consider questions such as:
- Who owns todayās media? Is ownership concentration harmful to diversityāor essential for creativity in a globalized marketplace?
- How can digital media help or harm public interest journalism?
- Is editorial independence being strengthened or undermined?
- Is the freedom of online media undermined by new gatekeepers?
- How are citizens responding? Is digital media increasing activism and participation? Or is it overwhelming and numbing people with a cascade of ever-more information?
- What is the overall impact of these changes and issues on democracy?
With panelists from Morocco, Spain, and the United States, this event promises international insights into a global issue.
Dead federal retirees are paid $120 million annually
GovernmentDead federal retirees are paid $120 million annually, report says
By Ed OāKeefe (Wash Post)
The federal government pays out millions of dollars to dead people each year ā including deceased retired federal workers, according to a new report.
In the past five years, the Office of Personnel Management has made more than $601Ā million in benefits payments to deceased federal annuitants, according to the agencyās inspector general. Total annual payouts range between $100Ā million and $150Ā million.
Reference: Land and Power, the new wave of investments in land
01 Agriculture, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth
Published: 22 September 2011
Author:Bertram Zagema, Senior Lobbyist (OxFam)
The new wave of land deals is not the new investment in agriculture that millions had been waiting for. The poorest people are being hardest hit as competition for land intensifies. Oxfamās research has revealed that residents regularly lose out to local elites and domestic or foreign investors because they lack the power to claim their rights effectively and to defend and advance their interests.
Summary | Full report | (PDFs)
Event: Oct 6 Wash DC, Oct 2011 Protest to Occupy DC
Civil Society
(Source) “Starting on October 6, 2011, thousands of concerned Americans will assemble in Freedom Plaza, in Washington DC to take control of our country and our lives. We will occupy the plaza and hold a People's Assembly where we come up with just and sustainable solutions to the crises we face and demand that these solutions be presented and that the people's needs be addressed. We will plan and engage in creative acts of civil resistance and demand that our inherent rights and freedoms be protected, and that our children have a chance to live in peace,to breathe clean air, and to grow edible natural food.”
“Will you stand with us and denounce the systems and institutions that support endless war and unrestrained corporate greed ?”
Also see:
October 2011 list of organizers
Comment: It's interesting how often the graphic of the raised fist has been used as mentioned in this video “The Revolution Business.”
