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Develop local economies to reduce use of fossil fuel in transport and allow local businesses and communities to flourish. The concept of developing a local economy is simply to buy food (or any good or service) produced, grown, or raised as close to your home as possible. With industrialization, food is now grown and processed in fewer and fewer locations, meaning it has to travel further to reach the average consumer's refrigerator, e.g., a typical carrot has to travel 1,838 miles to reach you dinner table using fossil fuels, packaging to get there. A locally owner business re-circulates money in the community by hiring local graphic artists, accountants, lawyers and others. Similarly, local farms re-circulate money by purchasing feed, seed and other materials from local businesses. Indeed, local businesses create three to four times the positive economic impact on a community than a national chain. A new study from Michigan, reveals that a modest change in consumer behavior -- a 10 percent shift in market share to independent businesses from chain stores – would result in 1,600 new jobs, $53 million in wages, and a $137 million economic impact to Grand Rapids, MI.

Put Teeth on ATM's
Feb 28, 2010 — KZeese

Fighting the big banks is good for the economy, it's good for job building and it good for our politics. And it's fun! The big 4 banks are abusive, so our "Break up With Your Big Bank" campaign is growing - you helped move hundreds of thousands of dollars and more unreported to local banks.

Now, let's spread out and flyer others in our own cities. People are already turning the campaign into a movement in your city.

Our friends and neighbors need to stop using their big banks and big bank credit cards now. How can we get this to happen? People are rallying with simple acts at events across the country and are successfully reaching people the internet can't.

1. Get the flyer and give it to people at an event or an ATM, it was made by a dedicated volunteer organizer, Bruce Hartford (just click on it).

2. Get Stealth and Creative like the Raging Grannies on the West Coast, for one, who are pioneering homemade cardboard teeth on some participating ATM's. Make some teeth and start raging.

Tell us what can happen in your town -- do it, list the action, or get help from us.



Prosperity for all!
Feb 27, 2010 — admin

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• Once again the president and congress are not including any discussion of the only real solution to America's health care problems - expanding and improving Medicare to cover everyone in America. On February 25th, the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care will be holding a "Sidewalk Summit for Improved Medicare for All" outside the Blair House in Washington, DC before the Democrats and Republicans have their session. If you are able to be in Washington, DC meet us at 9 AM at the White House. Specific meet up details will be announced as the event gets closer. Find out how an improved Medicare for All system will meet Preident Obama's goals for a health care system that works for the American people.

• Our "democracy" looks more like a party for the mega-corporations and conglomerates. At this moment, the big banks are successfully gutting consumer protections from a bill in Congress that is supposed to fix the problems leading up to the economic crisis. Fight corruption!

• Money is not speech, and human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights. Sign the motion to amend the constitution



Wholesale inventories fall, sales surge
Mar 10, 2010 — KZeese

REUTERS

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. wholesale inventories fell modestly in January, while sales rose to their highest level since October 2008, suggesting that inventories would continue to support economic growth in the first quarter.

The rise in sales pushed the inventory-to-sales ratio, a measure of how long it would take to sell stocks at the current sales pace, to a record low of 1.10 months' worth from December's 1.12 months, the Commerce Department said on Wednesday.



Men May Have It Bad, But Unemployment Statistics Obscure the Hit Taken By Single Moms
Mar 10, 2010 — KZeese

Break down today's unemployment stats, and it looks like women are faring much better than men in the great recession. That is, unless they're single and raising kids.

By J. Goodrich
Alternet



Feds pay to ferret out stimulus fraud
Mar 10, 2010 — KZeese

By Stephen Dinan
Washington Times

Federal investigators have received more than 730 allegations of waste or fraud in stimulus act funding so far, have canceled the contracts of some bad actors and have sent a couple of dozen cases to the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service and prosecutors.



"Citizens United" Disaster Spreads, Resistance Builds
Mar 9, 2010 — KZeese

By David Swanson
Free Speech for People

The damage from the Supreme Court's decision in "Citizens United v. FEC" continues to spread as feared. Newly emboldened corporations are suing to overturn state laws that restrict corporate spending on politics:

"A pro-natural resource development group [how's that for spin?] and a Bozeman painting company asked a Helena District Court on Monday to strike down Montana’s 1912 ban on corporate donations and expenditures to political campaigns to comply with a January U.S. Supreme Court ruling."



Stimulus money goes overseas
Mar 3, 2010 — KZeese


We're sick of big bank lobbying and we want our jobs and economy back
Mar 2, 2010 — KZeese

By Tiffiniy Cheng | A New Way Forward

Bank CEO's are threatening Americans to pass off any kind of reform to secure our economy as higher costs to consumers, rather than letting it cut into their CEO profits! What? This kind of dangerous power is shameless. They need to be broken up and their out-of-hand debt machines need to be broken down.

This week there is a national call-in day to Congress. A New Way Forward is joining hundreds of coalition groups to make hundreds of thousands of phone calls to let Congress know we're sick of big bank lobbying and we want our jobs and economy back.

To join in, simply call toll free 1-866-544-7573, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. EST. Now is the time to do it. This is an easy call to make just tell them how you feel about the economy. Breaking up the banks is a structural reform that has everything to do with making the economy work for you, the public.

Breaking up the banks is not only good for the economy, it can be fun.

The Senate is finally addressing the economic crisis and touching on financial reform legislation this week. Tell them what's important to you, and show support for structural reform. Here's something you can say: "Support financial reform that makes Wall Street banks accountable, shrink the 'too big to fail' banks, have a regulatory focus on consumer protection and small business growth, and close the loopholes in regulation and among regulators that have worked against consumers.

The financial services industry spent over $344 million on its lobbying in 2009 and more than 1,500 lobbyists registered with Congress to work on enacting new rules. In defiance, we're going to make thousands and thousands of calls. Help us take this country back from the corporate party.



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