Occupy Forum: DOLLAR DEMOCRACY: WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR SOME

Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues!

Occupy Forum presents…

Book Signing/Townhall discussion DOLLAR DEMOCRACY: WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR SOME; HOW TO RECLAIM THE AMERICAN DREAM FOR ALL
 With author Peter Matthews,
Journalist, Professor of Political Science Cypress College

This book is about the pernicious and devastating effects of wealthy individuals’ and corporate money in American politics. Political speech now has a price tag on it! A total of $6.3 billion was raised and spent by presidential and congressional candidates in the 2012 election. Without huge amounts of money… a political candidate cannot effectively get her/his message out. WE MUST CHANGE THIS.
How did we get to the crisis that we face today?
– 
growing rich-poor gap, shrinking middle class
– 
GMO food as primary source in the American diet without average citizens knowing how dangerous it is

    – college tuition skyrocketing, many k-12 schools sufferinng with government support dropping
– weakening of America through waste, fraud, and abuse in the Military-Industrial Complex
– defunding of social programs that strengthen the middle class and poor because corporate funded politicians have given tax loopholes to their wealthy corporate donors

Answers to these questions and real, concrete solutions will be presented.

Corporate sponsored politicians have been responsible for the outsourcing of our well paying manufacturing jobs to low wage countries by supporting NAFTA and the WTO, and they are about to do it again with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TTP), which we are organizing to stop. As part of the “Military- Industrial-Congressional Complex” these corporate sponsored politicians promoted waste, fraud, and abuse in the military/defense/national security budget. By their actions they have destroyed the American Dream for the Middle Class and Working Poor.

Peter Matthews is a Professor of Political Science at Cypress College and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Long Beach City College. He is also a guest host at KPFK radio 90.7 FM, and has been a Political Analyst for over 10 years on network TV and radio stations. (to hear some of his radio host and analysis work please click on www.epetermathews.com)
Time will be allotted for Q&A, discussion and announcements.