No money for food, but $350bn for Apple & friends?
US Uncut protest in Seattle, WA. By Simon Li.
What if your family’s finances were tight, and you had a water bill that you couldn’t afford to pay? What if you had a client who owed you enough to cover the water bill? Would you tell your family they would have to go without water, or would you tell your client to pay up?
While Obama and Congress allow spending plans that take $500 million out of the mouths of hungry kids and $415 million from local cops, Apple and Cisco are lobbying hard for a corporate handout worth $350 billion.
Apple next in line for US Uncut protests
Grassroots anti-austerity campaigners US Uncut have announced that their next tax-dodging target will be Apple computers. The hipsters’ favourite is a leading voice in the “Win America Campaign” for further corporate tax breaks.
US Uncut and the forgotten legacy of MLK
Dr. King’s legacy of ending racial segregation in the South is well-known; what isn’t known is his fierce dedication to economic justice and drawing awareness to the growing plight of both black and white America- rapacious inequality between the ruling class and everyone else. US Uncut is the continuation of the battle Dr. King never got the chance to see.
Call to Action – US Uncut, Washington DC Chapter
Call to Action US Uncut, DC Chapter February 15, 2011 US Uncut DC is calling on you to join a series of protests that link the avoidance of taxes by US corporations and banks to the proposed service cuts and pay freezes threatening Americans * The first protest will be on Saturday, February 26th 2011 [...]
US Uncut is born
Carl Gibson is the founder of CIVIL USA – the first of what we hope will be many US Uncut groups. Visit the CIVIL USA website, and follow the campaign on twitter at @civilusa. Walking away from the Mississippi State Capitol yesterday, I saw three older white folks getting out of their cars. They looked [...]
UKIP and the Culture War
I was surprised to find that Godfrey Bloom, the UKIP MEP for Yorks and Humber had been running his re-election campaign on the basis of climate change denial. This seemed odd to me. I thought that UKIP were a party promoting withdrawal from the EU. But then you should never judge a party by its [...]