This is a telling glimpse of how disparate the gap is between the top 1 percent and the bottom 99 percent...

If a person earns a million dollars a year, a majority would consider that person to be rich. Even someone who earns $250,000 a year would be considered by most people to be doing really well.

A small group of homeless people are living in a tent city in Wooster. But ODOT says the people are trespassing, and filed a lawsuit. Fox 8's Jack Shea explains...

Video and article: ODOT Sues Homeless Over Tent City in Wooster

(It appears the linked article above has been deleted. That's corporate news for you. That article was discussed at length by Free Radio Santa Cruz last night. I did manage to find a slightly older video covering this issue, linked below.)

Video: ODOT Suing Tent City

Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) wrote a letter to the Federal Trade Commission requesting an investigation into OnStar's announcement that it would track the location of its customers' vehicles even after the customers canceled their service. OnStar also reserved the right to sell such locational information to advertisers. In an interview with FOX News last week, EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg warned that the company would make data of former customers available to third parties.

** MARK YOUR CALENDARS! **
September 24th and 25th, 2011

7 Years & Still Growing!!!
HIP HOP 4 PEACE!
2 Day Festival
Free, All Ages, Drug & Alcohol Free

Back in Vancouver...
Pioneers of Cuban Hip Hop
OBSESIÓN!
Direct from Cuba

Saturday September 24
1-7pm
PEACE IN THE STREETS
ALL DAY OUTDOOR PARTY
Downtown Vancouver, BC

Sunday September 25
11am-3pm
THE SCHOOL OF HIP HOP: FORUM & WORKSHOPS
Bonsor Recreation Complex
Multi-Purpose Room
6550 Bonsor Avenue
Burnaby, BC
(South East of Metrotown Center)

On September 24th and 25th Vancouver will host the 7th Annual Vancouver International Hip Hop Festival 4 Peace! The Festival will be two days of performances by local and international artists including MC’s, Breakdancers, DJ’s and Graffiti artists.

The 2011 London Riots

The riots continue in London and surrounding areas for a third night.

"Fires, riots and looting spread across London." -- BBC

Large Sony distribution center burning out of control

Source: London indymedia "Tumbles"

From Cincinnati to Olympia, Caitlin Roberts and Matt Fu will be traveling via Greyhound buses to promote the audio documentary “This Weapon Has Heart,” or “Este Arma Tiene Corazón,” about Honduran community radio. During this tour, they will be playing politically charged electro-acoustic music, as autococoon and 1985, as well as organizing with community radio networks.

THIS WEAPON HAS HEART // ESTE ARMA TIENE CORAZÔN

On the morning of June 28th, around 200 people gathered a few miles away from the entrance to Palmerola Air Base, which is located in Honduras but used by the United States Air Force. The marchers proceeded towards the main gate to denounce the US military base due to the US's military presence and its role in the overthrow of Honduras' democratically elected government on June 28th, 2009. The plane that sent Honduras' president Manuel Zelaya into exile on that day flew from the capital Tegucigalpa to Palmerola Air Base before continuing in the opposite direction to Costa Rica.

Rachel Corrie Foundation presents Peace Works 2011: Solidarity in Action, April 8-9, featuring Alice Walker
Olympia, WA – The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice will host its 2011 Peace Works event Friday and Saturday, April 8-9. Solidarity in Action is a weekend conference featuring acclaimed author and activist Alice Walker as keynote presenter. Walker will speak at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts, Friday, April 8, 7:30 p.m. on The Poet/Writer as Activist.

January 27th, 2011

Ziad Abbas, Palestinian Refugee from Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the West Bank, to Speak at South Puget Sound Community College
Rachel Corrie Foundation Joins Effort to Bring Clean Water to Children in Gaza
CONTACT:
Ziad Abbas, Middle East Children’s Alliance, 510-717-6644, ziad@mecaforpeace.org
Rochelle Gause, Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice, 360-754-3998, rochelle@rachelcorriefoundation.org

by Gerardo Torres Zelaya (Español abajo.)
Secretary General, Los Necios Political Organization (OPLN)
International Committee, National Front for Popular Resistance (FNRP)

The beginning of a year always brings with it a series of promises and illusions and of course 2011 is no different. When the boundry of 12 midnight was crossed, Honduras began a new year in the middle of what can become the most important moment in its political history and at the same time left an unforgettable decade.

Michael Moore: I have put up $20,000 of my own money to help bail Mr. Assange out of jail.

Furthermore, I am publicly offering the assistance of my website, my servers, my domain names and anything else I can do to keep WikiLeaks alive and thriving.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/why-im-posting-bail-...

http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/3486

The debate over climate change generally transpires within
the cloistered confines of expensive hotels, executive boardrooms, and
diplomatic halls. As seen in the failure
to arrive at binding agreements in Copenhagen, the talks are generally
as sterile as the surroundings. Now, all signs point to another
high-level fiasco at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 16), to be
held Nov.29-Dec. 10 in the beach resort town of Cancun, Mexico.

We now know that Arizona's controversial immigration bill 1070 was written with the help of the Corrections Corporation of America- the largest private prison company in the nation- in Washington, DC’s Grand Hyatt Hotel in December of 2010.

Read the full story at: http://tiresiasspeaks.wordpress.com/private-prison-industry-behind-arizo...

Oct. 27, 2010

Election Spending by Outside Groups Is Concentrated and Hidden, New Public Citizen Analysis Shows

Just 10 Groups Are Responsible for More than Half the $176.1 Million Spent in Midterm Elections

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Of the $176.1 million spent by outside groups using
large, often undisclosed contributions to influence the current
elections, just 10 groups are responsible for the bulk of the spending,
according to a new analysis released today by Public Citizen.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 25, 2010
Contact: olympia@risingtidenorthamerica.org
Olympia, WA – On October 25, activists from Olympia Rising Tide hung two banners at the Evergreen State College in opposition to a proposed biomass gasification facility. Olympia Rising Tide opposes biomass because it is a false solution to climate change and would lead to a massive resurgence of clear-cut logging in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere.