Posts Tagged ‘Marshall Auerback’

Budget; Foreclosure Agreement; Occupy the SEC

(1) Obama’s Budget: Two items worth checking out: veteran Boston-area organizer Mike Prokosch had a great piece on Common Dreams called Starve the Beast–The Pentagon. A nice re-purposing of the tired Reagan-era slogan.  The other is a nicely critical piece on the budget in the Financial Times by Jeffrey Sachs, An American budget for the ...Read more.

The John Pike Meme; Rick Wolff Video; EU

(1) The Lt. John Pike (UC Davis pepper-spraying cop) meme: See more pictures of UC Davis Lt. John Pike casually pepper-spraying innocents here and here and here. Find a template to make your own image here. (2) Video of Rick Wolff’s Excellent Talk at #OccupyBoston, November 17, 2011. Thanks to Doug G. of the Zinn ...Read more.

Foreclosure Trouble, etc.

(1) “Foreclosuregate” and the too-big-to-fail banks:  The blogosphere is abuzz about the trouble the big banks seem to be in with respect to foreclosures.  What’s gotten people going is the scandal that has been called “foreclosuregate” and “the Robo Signing Scandal,” wherein the big banks have evidently falsified or fabricated missing paperwork in order to ...Read more.

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