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Americans who are not in the wealthiest one percent of the US
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Class wars have been going on since the beginning of recorded
history. As societies become more powerful and wealthy, they
often become more corrupt. Towards the end of each cycle, a few
rich families Class wars is a dirty term in our media, which always implies that America is above such crudeness. But the very rich are not above that at all. They have been waging an especially intense attack on working people at home since the 1970's, and have accumulated immense wealth and power at the expense of the rest of us. Of course, America's class wars are not fought with tanks and bombs, but with crooked politicians, right wing think tanks and corporate owned media. For the very rich to maintain and increase their share of the national wealth, they have to fool you. How else could one percent of our population call the shots for ninety-nine percent? Activist Radio will attempt to show you how the few So sit back, relax, and listen to Activist Radio streamed live: Thursdays from 5 - 6 pm EST
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options. Listening in iTunes works nicely if that is available. Wolf-PAC Virtual Warrior Workshops will be held from Sept. 25 - 28. Mike Monettta, National Director, will be our guest on Sept. 24. Find out more about Wolf-PAC workshops.September 24GUEST: Mike Monetta, National Director of Wolf-PAC, an organization dedicated to working across the states to stop corruption at the federal level and in Congress, talks about ways to end the wholesale buying of politicians by the major corporations.Wolf-PAC, the organization The Solution The Liberty Tree Foundation Fighting for a government that works for we, the people SONG: Miriam Makeba ... Malcolm X September 17GUEST: Emmaia Gelman, writer, researcher and PhD candidate at the NYU American Studies Program, describes her recent findings about the ADL (Anti-Defamation League), and how it has funded right wing movements in the US.Open letter to progressives: The ADL is not an ally Research: Papers and Articles Left-wing activist call for boycott of Anti-Defamation League SONG: Jackson Browne, Let The Rhythm Lead: Haiti Song ... Surrender SONG: Country Joe McDonald ... Kiss My Ass September 10GUEST:
Angela Walker, US veteran and working class activist with
decades of experience advocating for racial and economic
justice in social movements and unions, talks about her
socialist beliefs and how she became Howie Hawkins’ running
mate on the Green Party line.
About Angela Walker Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker "I Came To Take The White House!" SONG: Sheryl Crow ... Love Is A Good Thing September 3GUEST: Chuck Collins, writer and a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and coauthor of a new study entitled "Gilded Giving 2020: How Wealth Inequality Distorts Philanthropy and Imperils Democracy," talks about the institute's plan to reform what charity giving can be deducted for those at the top of the income scale.White Supremacy is the Pre-existing Condition Gilded Giving 2020 Blogging Our Great Divide SONG: Nina Simone, Nina Simone: Anthology ... Revolution August 27GUEST: Thom Hartmann, top rated progressive national and internationally syndicated talk show host and New York Times bestselling author of twenty-six books, talks about his recently published work, The Hidden History of Monopolies - How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream.The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series Is the Trump Death Cult Growing or Shrinking? Thom Harman Program: News, Opinion, Debate SONG: Eddie Starr, Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways ... I'm Union and I'm Proud August 20GUEST: Sijal Nasralla, Campaign Director of the MPower Change, an organization that promotes human rights for Muslims both in the US and around the world, talks about growing up in Palestine and trying to change the racist narrative about Muslim immigrants living in our country.You Can't Reform Haram Beware the Anti-Defamation League You're the one that they're protecting white people from SONG: Greg Brown, The Evening Call ... Treat Each Other Right August 13GUEST: Van, local antifa activist and member of the Hudson Valley Antifascist Network, talks about white supremacy violence and the collective efforts to expose and publicly shame racists, homophobes, and right wing fascists.Hudson Valley Antifascist Network - Facebook Defending Your Neighborhood From Nazis Antifascists Picket At Home Of Local White Supremacist SONG: Barbara Dane, I Hate the Capitalist System ... The Kent State Massacre August 6GUEST: Christian Perenti, author of "Radical Hamilton," and Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College CUNY, talks about his latest article, "The Surprising Geography of Police Killings" and how race and region determine who gets murdered by the men in blue.The Surprising Geography of Police Killings The role of tasers in Black deaths The Counted: people killed by police SONG: Eliza Gilkyson, Paradise Hotel ... Many of God July 30GUEST: Ed Haffmans, local peace and environmental activist who has spent decades living well without fossil fuels, talks about the growing consensus for renewable energy, and Michael Moore's new documentary, Planet of the Humans.SUNY New Paltz did not make the cut for greenest campuses The only thing ‘green’ about nuclear power SUNY New Paltz president fails on energy efficiency SONG: Coldplay ... Freedom for Palestine NY Times Board of Directors, corporate executives all. July 23GUEST: Laurette Giardino, human rights activist and 2020 Democratic candidate running for New York State Assembly of the 105th district, talks about why she supports the NY Healthcare Act, green jobs, alternative energy, criminal justice reform, and getting the rich to pay their fair share of taxes.Laurette Giardino for NY State Assembly 105th District Harckham Honors Two District LGBTQ Leaders for Pride Month Candidate for NYS Assembly District 105 - Facebook SONG: Trey Songz ... 2020 Riots Take a minute to rate Activist Radio Click Icon:  Once
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practically everything and rule with an iron fist. Imperial wars
for empire and military over-expansion are other trademarks of a
debased and undemocratic society. Empire brings about great
poverty and suffering not only in the occupied and exploited
lands, but at home as well. 
richest of our citizens lie to the rest of us to expand their
power and wealth. They are sick with greed, of course. But so
far, the rest of us are what might be worse, and that is stupid.
None of the information presented is particularly new or really
very hard to find, although you won't read it in the mainstream
press or see it on TV. If that is what you are relying on for
news, you are being suckered, my friend. I don't know how to put
it any nicer.
Abraham Lincoln |
| And above all Fascism denies that class-war
can be the preponderant force in the transformation of society.
Benito Mussolini |
| The first truth is that the liberty of a
democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of
private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their
democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism -
ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any
other controlling private power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| A revolution is a class struggle. It was
one class - the oppressed, and that other class - the oppressor.
Fred Hampton |
| Surely, in the history of lies told to the
population, this is the biggest lie. In the history of secrets,
withheld from the American people, this is the biggest secret:
that there are classes with different interests in this country.
To ignore that--not to know that the history of our country is a
history of slaveowner against slave, landlord against tenant,
corporation against worker, rich against poor--is to render us
helpless before all the lesser lies told to us by people in
power.
Howard Zinn |
| The clinical definition of "fascism' is
when private concentrated economic power takes government away
from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a
subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.
Ralph Nader |
| There's class warfare, all right, but it's
my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.
Warren Buffet |
| This [$700 billion bailout] was the largest
single act of class warfare in the modern history of this
country.
Dennis Kucinich |
| I think this has been a class war waged by
the rich against the poor, and I think that they won. And I
think the poor are fighting back.
Naomi Klein |
| The solution is revolution, first in the
spirit of the gospel; Jesus could not accept people going
hungry. It is a conflict between classes, rich and poor. My role
is to preach and organize.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide |
| The effect of the [European Central Bank]
policies is to weaken the welfare state measures and to reduce
the power of labor. That's class war. It's fine for the banks,
for financial institutions, but terrible for the population.
Noam Chomsky |
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US has a highly class-conscious business class. If you read the
business literature, it's like reading Mao's "Red Book." The
values may be inverted, but the terminology is the same. They're
fighting a bitter class war constantly. They never relax for a
minute. Noam Chomsky
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| The breakdown [of American society] is not
caused by economic laws. They are policies, a kind of class war
initiated by the rich and powerful against the working
population and the poor. This is what defines the neoliberalism
period, not only in the United States but in Europe and
elsewhere. Noam
Chomsky
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| For
45 years there has been a war in this country waged by the
corporate elite against the working class of America. Bernie
Sanders
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| If
there is going to be class warfare in this country, it's about
time the working class won that war. Bernie Sanders
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| The
theft of public resources for the military and militarism
domestically and abroad represent a one-sided class war waged on
the working class in the U.S. The 6 trillion dollars spent on
U.S. wars since 2003 are resources that could have been directed
to address the increasing desperate plight of workers and poor
people in the U.S. Ajamu
Baraka
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