‘Rolling Jubilee,’ is a debt forgiveness campaign organized by Strike Debt and has already proven the concept, buying up $14,000 of debt with $500 in funds.
More young voters are deciding to pick and choose their political values irrespective of party platforms.
Jill Stein, Green Party presidential candidate and her running mate Cheri Honkala joined in on a citizen organized protest of Fannie Mae, the mortgage giant tied to the housing bubble and subprime mortgages.
Congress passed the Orwellian bill HR 437 in May, dubbed the Anti-Occupy law. It criminalizes dissent and protest in and around federal buildings.
The 132 page report catalogs hundreds of incidents of alleged excessive use of force and the violation of basic rights and liberties by police officers against protesters, journalists, legal observers and bystanders at Occupy Wall Street protests over the course of the last nine months.
On Saturday, I was shocked to learn that Alexander Cockburn, founder of the influential website hard left political website Counterpunch, had died of cancer.
