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Amerika: Neither Land of the Free Nor Home of the Brave

June 4, 2012 at 9:36 am.

If you are charged with a crime in Amerika, you are guilty unless you are rich. If you are struck by a drone from Amerika, you are guilty unless you survive. AMERIKA: NEITHER LAND OF THE FREE NOR HOME OF THE BRAVE “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”–Goethe As things stand, when corporate fascist puppet president Bushbamney signs NDAA 2013 (H.R. 4310, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013), bipartisan-sponsored Amendment 114 (based on H.R. 5736) will make it legal … Continued

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Private Prisons as Profit Factories – How Banks & Wall St Control & Profit from the (In)Justice System

November 26, 2011 at 3:27 pm.

Posted by Valkyrie

The bottom-line goal of a private prison system is to turn a profit, without consideration for – and often to the detriment of – any benefit to society. This is true of all public resources that are being undermined by privatization – water, land, education, even the administration of public assistance benefits (JP Morgan turns a healthy profit from processing food stamps). People will argue that privatization is more efficient. I agree. Private prisons are more efficient at turning public funds into profit for their shareholders, which include “too-big-to-fail” Wells … Continued

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This website was created in the fall of 2011. Most of it is now moribund, but the Occupy Oakland Calendar, which lists activist events in the East Bay (and occasionally elsewhere) is still maintained, the Search facility works to find earlier posts and keep OO’s history alive, and articles are occasionally still posted to the front page.

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