No work, No housework, No school, Shut the city down!
Occupy Wall Street activists are coming up with for a nationwide series of demonstrations billed as a “general strike” on Tuesday in what can be the most important check of the movement’s organizing muscle since the winter.
Last night, Occupy Los Angeles hit Gov 1% outside his West Coast fundraiser in Beverly Hills. Info here from the OLA website, and a clip from NBC below that (it’s at the 30-second mark).
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The New York Times editorialized in support of extending the Millionaire’s Tax today Read the rest of this entry
It’s been a very busy week, and there is lots more to come!
Yesterday, New Yorkers from New Deal, Citizen Action, MoveOn, Strong Economy for All and others, participated in a hit on the state Business Council, which co-chairs the Committee to Save NY. The Business Council was meeting to discuss their upcoming legislative agenda (“tax cuts for rich, job and service cuts for the rest”), so the “Committee to Starve NY” welcomed them with messages like “Yachts, Not Jobs!” and people from across the state amplified this message on Twitter via the #99NY hashtag. Here’s a write-up (via 99NY) and a picture (via CANY).
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Dearest New Deal for NY supporters-
Coming off this morning’s Buffalo News editorial in support of the extension of the Millionaires Tax, we’ve started to compile similar editorials from around the state.
Andrew Rosenthal, the editorial page editor of the New York Times who oversees the editorial board, the letters and Op-Ed departments, and Sunday Review, posted this piece on Nov 18, 2011.
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On this week where residents of America traditionally gather to give thanksgiving for the year behind them and ahead of them, the Buffalo News rings in with a timely editorial in support of the Millionaires Tax in NY, clarifying that, “The tax recognizes that no one became rich in a vacuum. School systems, vast public infrastructure, public safety services and assorted government-provided protections helped make personal fortunes possible”
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