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=== Additional Articles & Resources ===
=== Additional Articles & Resources ===
* Professor Richard D. Wolff - [http://rdwolff.com/content/class-warfare-alternative-radio-podcast Class Warfare] (Alternative Radio Podcast)
; Movement Building
: People dread taxes. The tax code is a labyrinth few citizens dare to enter save for the rich and powerful who hire lawyers and accountants to figure out ways to game the system. One corporation paid $26,000 a year to maintain a post office box in Bermuda as its legal headquarters. That little trick saved them $40 million in corporate taxes. Not bad. Taxes on the wealthy used to be high. During the Eisenhower years in the 1950′s, a fairly conservative period which saw tremendous economic growth, the tax rate for the haves was 91 percent. Today it’s a third of that, and few actually pay that much. In true Orwellian fashion, if you raise these issues you are accused of class warfare. There is class warfare all right. It’s been successfully waged by the affluent 1 percent against everybody else.
* [http://paceebene.org/nonviolent-change-101/building-nonviolent-world/methods/eight-stages-successful-social-movements The Eight Stages of Successful Social Movements]
* [http://www.wpatoday.org/A_New_WPA_.html Should we create a new WPA?]
* Making it ''real'': Obama & his apocryphal "Now Make Me Do It" -- [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-s-mcelvaine/obama-can-win-big-with-fd_b_1230903.html Obama Can Win Big With FDR Formula]
* [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-08/class-warfare-by-fdr-holds-lesson-for-obama-commentary-by-michael-kazin.html Class Warfare Waged by FDR Holds Lesson for Obama]
 
; Labor
* [http://www.salon.com/2012/02/02/occupys_challenge_to_big_labor/singleton/ What Occupy taught the unions] -- SEIU and others are embracing the movement that has succeeded as they have faded
* [http://www.salon.com/2012/02/02/occupys_challenge_to_big_labor/singleton/ What Occupy taught the unions] -- SEIU and others are embracing the movement that has succeeded as they have faded
* [http://www.wpatoday.org/A_New_WPA_.html Should we create a new WPA?]
* [http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=3551 Unions and the movement] -- Howard Zinn on class in America Pt4: A reinvigorated labor movement needed for a great social upheaval
* [http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=3551 Unions and the movement] -- Howard Zinn on class in America Pt4: A reinvigorated labor movement needed for a great social upheaval
: "90 percent of the workforce is unorganized. They're organizable. This 90 percent of the workforce are not people who are rich. They're people who need unions. They need to raise their wages. They need to be able to face their employers with some strength rather than the weakness of an individual facing a corporation. So there's a reservoir of possibility there for organizing."
: "90 percent of the workforce is unorganized. They're organizable. This 90 percent of the workforce are not people who are rich. They're people who need unions. They need to raise their wages. They need to be able to face their employers with some strength rather than the weakness of an individual facing a corporation. So there's a reservoir of possibility there for organizing."
* Making it ''real'': Obama & his apocryphal "Now Make Me Do It" -- [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-s-mcelvaine/obama-can-win-big-with-fd_b_1230903.html Obama Can Win Big With FDR Formula]
 
* [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-08/class-warfare-by-fdr-holds-lesson-for-obama-commentary-by-michael-kazin.html Class Warfare Waged by FDR Holds Lesson for Obama]
; Tax & Income Distribution
* Professor Richard D. Wolff - [http://rdwolff.com/content/class-warfare-alternative-radio-podcast Class Warfare] (Alternative Radio Podcast)
: People dread taxes. The tax code is a labyrinth few citizens dare to enter save for the rich and powerful who hire lawyers and accountants to figure out ways to game the system. One corporation paid $26,000 a year to maintain a post office box in Bermuda as its legal headquarters. That little trick saved them $40 million in corporate taxes. Not bad. Taxes on the wealthy used to be high. During the Eisenhower years in the 1950′s, a fairly conservative period which saw tremendous economic growth, the tax rate for the haves was 91 percent. Today it’s a third of that, and few actually pay that much. In true Orwellian fashion, if you raise these issues you are accused of class warfare. There is class warfare all right. It’s been successfully waged by the affluent 1 percent against everybody else.
 
; Stats
* [http://www.businessinsider.com/dear-america-you-should-be-mad-as-hell-about-this-charts-2012-6 DEAR AMERICA: You Should Be Mad As Hell About This] [CHARTS]
* [http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-fix-the-economy-2011-10 HERE'S WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE ECONOMY... (And How To Fix It)]
* [http://www.businessinsider.com/richard-koo-recession-2010-4 Richard Koo's Awesome Presentation On The Real Reason Why This Recession Is Completely Different]
 
; More
* [http://roarmag.org/2011/11/the-ninety-five-theses-on-the-ills-of-europe/ The Ninety-Five Theses on the Ills of Europe]
* [http://roarmag.org/2011/11/the-ninety-five-theses-on-the-ills-of-europe/ The Ninety-Five Theses on the Ills of Europe]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYFw3O--2R0 Capitalism Is The Crisis (Full Movie)] (YouTube)
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYFw3O--2R0 Capitalism Is The Crisis (Full Movie)] (YouTube)
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* [http://pastebin.com/gm2UV08D THE NEW COMMON SENSE] (Pastebin)
* [http://pastebin.com/gm2UV08D THE NEW COMMON SENSE] (Pastebin)
: A Declaration of INTERDEPENDENCE, born of necessity, from and for the collective conscience of the "99%" to and for the oligarchic "1%" of the United States of America.
: A Declaration of INTERDEPENDENCE, born of necessity, from and for the collective conscience of the "99%" to and for the oligarchic "1%" of the United States of America.
; Stats
* [http://www.businessinsider.com/dear-america-you-should-be-mad-as-hell-about-this-charts-2012-6 DEAR AMERICA: You Should Be Mad As Hell About This] [CHARTS]
* [http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-fix-the-economy-2011-10 HERE'S WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE ECONOMY... (And How To Fix It)]
* [http://www.businessinsider.com/richard-koo-recession-2010-4 Richard Koo's Awesome Presentation On The Real Reason Why This Recession Is Completely Different]


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