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Atris, Abu.
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Bankster [""Too big to fail" financial services institutions have crashed the U.S. economy, throwing millions out of work, collapsing retirement funds and college savings accounts, and forcing many hard-working Americans into homelessness and poverty. Due to the complexity of the financial issues and the lack of clear avenues for input, average citizens have had zero role in shaping the policy solutions being proposed by government and industry, even as we are stuck footing the bill for the largest Bankster bailout in history. If you want to rein-in the Banksters and make sure they never get a chance to do it again, join us. We want www.BanksterUSA.org to be your go-to site for updates on the financial services re-regulation fight in Congress and for progressive net-roots campaigning against the big boys on Wall Street. We are in a big hole and it is going to take big ideas to get us out of it. We will follow the debates in Congress and update our website with new information and concrete action items on a weekly basis. But we will also launch public education campaigns to put bigger reform ideas on the table, ideas like: •a new Glass-Steagall Act for a new century ("Break Up the Banks") •a financial transaction tax ("Repo the Dough"), and •credit allocation policies ("Putting Wall Street to Work for Main Street.") Sign up for our regular email alerts and action items under "Get Email Updates" above. Your voice is needed in these debates to ensure that the interests of Main Street are prioritized over the narrow, special interests of Wall Street. The www.BanksterUSA.org site and our larger Real Economy Project are part of the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD). CMD is a national organization based in Madison, Wisconsin. It was founded by John Stauber in 1993 as an independent, non-profit, non-partisan, public interest group. Lisa Graves became Executive Director of CMD in July, 2009. She previously served as a senior advisor in all three branches of the federal government, as a leading strategist on civil liberties advocacy for the ACLU and others, and as an adjunct professor at George Washington University Law School. Mary Bottari is responsible for the content on BanksterUSA and is the Director of the Real Economy Project for CMD. She formerly worked on global trade issues for Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch division and as Press Secretary for U.S. Senator Russ Feingold. CMD's mission includes promoting transparency and informed debate by exposing corporate spin and government propaganda. We work to inform and assist grassroots citizen activism in promoting economic justice, public health, ecological sustainability and human rights. CMD publishes SourceWatch.org, PRWatch.org, the Weekly Spin, and now BanksterUSA.org."]
Baxter, Joan.
"How corporate tax breaks hurt humanity. Truth be told: taxation is only certain for the ordinary law-abiding citizen, the non-rich." Rabble (March 18, 2011)
Behind the News with Doug Henwood (KPFA: Berkeley)
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Center for American Progress ["The Center for American Progress is dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through progressive ideas and action. Building on the achievements of progressive pioneers such as Teddy Roosevelt and Martin Luther King, our work addresses 21st-century challenges such as energy, national security, economic growth and opportunity, immigration, education, and health care. We develop new policy ideas, critique the policy that stems from conservative values, and challenge the media to cover the issues that truly matter and shape the national debate. Founded in 2003 to provide long-term leadership and support to the progressive movement, CAP is headed by John D. Podesta and based in Washington, D.C. CAP opened a Los Angeles office in 2007."]
Chua, Amy.
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"Infographic: Tax Breaks vs. Budget Cuts." Center for American Progress (February 22, 2011)
Economic Policy Institute ["The Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit Washington D.C. think tank, was created in 1986 to broaden the discussion about economic policy to include the interests of low- and middle-income workers. Today, with global competition expanding, wage inequality rising, and the methods and nature of work changing in fundamental ways, it is as crucial as ever that people who work for a living have a voice in the economic discourse. EPI was the first — and remains the premier — think tank to focus on the economic condition of low- and middle-income Americans and their families. Its careful research on the status of American workers has become the gold standard in that field. Its encyclopedic State of Working America, issued every two years since 1988, is stocked in university libraries around the world. EPI researchers, who often testify to Congress and are widely cited in the media, first brought to light the disconnect between pay and productivity that marked the U.S. economy in the 1990s and is now widely recognized as a cause of growing inequality. EPI's staff includes eight Ph.D.-level researchers, a half dozen policy analysts and research assistants, and a full communications and outreach staff. EPI also works closely with a national network of prominent scholars. The institute conducts original research according to strict standards of objectivity, and couples its findings with outreach and popular education. Its work spans a wide range of economic issues, such as trends in wages, incomes, and prices; health care; education; retirement security; state-level economic development strategies; trade and global finance; comparative international economic performance; the health of manufacturing and other key sectors; global competitiveness and energy development. Its research is varied, but a common thread runs through it: EPI examines issues through a "living standards" lens by analyzing the impact of policies and initiatives on the American public."]
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"Why Socialism?" Monthly Review (May 1949)
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Foster, John Bellamy, Robert W. McChesney and R. Jamil Jonna.
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Hedges, Chris.
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Hedges, Chris, Vandana Shiva and Robert Scheer.
"Liberalism, Economy, and Corporate Domination." Uprising Radio (October 22, 2010)
Hudson, Michael and Jeffrey Sommers.
"Wisconsin Death Trip." Counterpunch (March 11, 2011)
International Socialist Review (The ISR is published bimonthly by the Center for Economic Research and Social Change.)
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"“My Fear is that Climate Change is the Biggest Crisis of All”: Naomi Klein Warns Global Warming Could Be Exploited by Capitalism and Militarism." Democracy Now (March 9, 2011)
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“Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon.” Democracy Now (June 2, 2011)
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Reyes, Oscar and Tamra Gilbertson.
"Carbon Trading: How it Works and Why it Fails." New Left Project (December 18, 2010)
Sanders, Bernie.
"There Is A WAR Being Waged Against The Working Families Of America!" (November 20, 2010: US Senate Speech Posted on YouTube)
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"Wisconsin Union Battle: A Convenient Distraction From the Real Culprit in State Budget Woes." Naked Capitalism (February 20, 2011)
Stiglitz, Joseph.
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"Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?Financial crooks brought down the world's economy — but the feds are doing more to protect them than to prosecute them." Rolling Stone (February 16, 2011)
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Academics; Accountants; Development organisations and NGOs; Economists; Faith groups; Financial professionals; Journalists; Lawyers; Public-interest groups; Trade unions. Our founding objectives are: To raise the level of awareness about the secretive world of offshore finance; to promote links between interested parties around the world, particularly involving developing countries; to stimulate and organise research and debate; to encourage and support national and international campaign activity. In particular we aim to: Promote more local campaigns for tax justice, especially in developing countries; provide a medium through which tax justice issues can be promoted within multilateral agencies such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund [IMF] , the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development [OECD] and the European Union."]
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"Top 5% holds more than half of the country’s wealth." Economic Policy Institute (March 24, 2011)
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Yes Men Fix the World (USA: Andy Bichbaum and Mike Bonanno, 2010: 87 mins)
"Yes, women still earn 75% as much as men." Feministing (March 2, 2011)
