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A campaign launched by major business interests in Atlanta, with the active assistance of elected officials, city administrators and other “civic” organizations, is attempting to evict the metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless from its home.
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In the period leading up to the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, the downtown business community stepped up its efforts to rid the hotel, convention and tourist areas of poor people, particularly Black men. Compliant elected officials enacted “quality of life” ordinances that criminalized the poor. Homeless people were given one-way bus tickets out of town, and the neighborhoods where low-income Black workers and seniors lived were bulldozed for Olympic stadiums and parks.
As America's joblessness and poverty remain at a peak, RT's Anastasia Churkina delves deep into the sorrows of the country's middle class to find out if its future is doomed.
The current austerity measures being imposed on the citizens of the world, while corporations and financiers profit, is a battle that has been fought before.
"There is a war underway. I'm not talking about Washington’s bloody misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, but a war within our own borders."
Even as millions of out-of-work and otherwise struggling Americans are tightening their belts for the holidays, the nation’s elite are lacing up their dancing shoes and partying like royalty as the millions and billions keep rolling in.
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Recessions are for the little people, not for the corporate chiefs and the titans of Wall Street who are at the heart of the American aristocracy. They have waged economic warfare against everybody else and are winning big time.
Writing in the March 11 Wall Street Journal, Steven J. Law, a bigwig lawyer for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, turns reality on its head by claiming working people and their unions were the BIG winners in the 5-4 Supreme Court "Citizens United" decision.
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The big business group is calling for draconian, and probably unconstitutional, limits on workers' ability to collectively have an impact on politics, to elect people that they feel will represent their interests. The Chamber of Commerce proposed anti-worker, anti-union restrictions include: require secret ballot elections to approve political spending; prohibit public sector unions from participating in elections of politicians who "will oversee their labor contracts" and prohibit the government from allowing automatic union dues payments from employee paychecks.
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The LA Times reports that the Chamber of Commerce is getting "record-setting amounts of money raised from corporations and wealth individuals."
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