Thursday, November 3, 2011

Flushing out the Corporate Corruption: Occupy Government By Linn Washington, Jr.

Friends,
While 'Occupy Wall Street' hogs the limelight, and it is good thing, concerns are being raised about the insidious role of George Soros as the guy who is perhaps 'back-end' managing the movement. He is the guy behind many engineered financial catastrophe [was primarily responsible for devastating the Asian Tigers in 1996-97] and needs to watched. Perhaps investigated.
 
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Kind regards
Arun Shrivastava

Flushing out the Corporate Corruption:

Occupy Government

By Linn Washington, Jr.

They worked many late night hours since this past spring creating a unique vehicle – part grassroots initiative and part cutting-edge technology – for countering the most corrupting force in American politics today: corporate dominance now controlling too many elected leaders on Capitol Hill.

Months before the Occupy Wall Street movement captured attention, inspiring millions across America while alarming this nation's political/corporate class, they began fashioning plans to enable honest people to run for elected office.

A problem was how to get those honest, regular people to run for Congressional office without the need for those candidates to seek or accept money from lobbyists just so as to be able to afford the purchase of the TV ads traditionally presumed to be neccessary for effective campaigning.

Their solution: new open source software that affords candidates opportunities to get their messages to voters with full transparency, in tandem with social media, thereby circumventing the staged manipulation of traditional televised political debates.

Recently they launched OccupyGovernment.org during an informational activity at ground zero of the Occupy Wall Street effort: the former Liberty Plaza Park now known as Zuccotti Park in New York City.

The immediate goal of the non-partisan OccupyGovernment.org is to elect a majority of new corporate-money-free representatives in Congress next year, thus flushing-out those members on both sides of the political isle who are beholden to the interests of corporations and private wealth, including the Tea Party- aligned representatives awash in Koch Brothers cash.

Interestingly, that launch occurred not too far from the kitchen of the Greenwich Village townhouse where planning for this campaign began this past spring under the umbrella entity BeYourGovernment.org.

"Take the buck out of the ballot" was a call to action voiced at the activity by OccupyGovernment.org co-founder Liz Abzug, the director of the Bella Abzug Leadership Institute – the entity furthering the work of late Congresswoman, feminist and social activist Bella Abzug.

"The reason we are creating BeYourGovernment.org is that the corruption of our political system by large corporations, lobbyists and billionaires has grown so extreme that our nation's democratic process has been transformed," said Liz Abzug, daughter of the famous Bella.

"As a result, the U.S. has experienced the largest redistribution of wealth upward in modern history, while our nation's middle class is under assault like never before," explained Abzug, who teaches Urban Studies at Barnard College in New York City...

For the rest of this article by LINN WASHINGTON, JR. in ThisCantBeHappening!, the new award-winning independent new online alternative newspaper, please go to:www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/863

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