August 28, 2014 — ST. PETERSBURG. As people were taking their seats for the Thursday afternoon session of the St. Petersburg City Council, some dude in a suit was talking with an elderly couple about the cause they were there to support, a resolution in support of Move to Amend, to “establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.”
“These young people were tired, but they were still determined. They were deflated but not defeated. They were longing for direction and leadership that is def not coming from the older generation. They are acquiring knowledge in this moment and are awake. They were expressing their frustrations with so called leadership.”
Rosa Clemente speaking at a rally for death row prisoner Troy Davis, New York City, 2009. Next Left Notes (Photo Credit: Thomas Good / NLN)
An hour ago, Jessica Care Moore, Talib Kweli, folks from the Fellowship of Reconcillation, Philip Agnew of Dream Defenders, Bgyrl ForLife, Malik Rhasaan from Occupy the Hood and Trymaine Lee from MSNBC and many others were chased like animals by the cops.
So I read the news today, oh boy. The police of Ferguson, Missouri had just won the war.
Home town America, Ferguson edition.
And here’s to the government of Mississippi
In the swamp of their bureaucracy they’re always bogging down
And criminals are posing as the mayors of the towns
They’re hoping that no one sees the sights and hears the sounds
And the speeches of the governor are the ravings of a clown
Oh, here’s to the land you’ve torn out the heart of
Mississippi find yourself another country to be part of
— Phil Ochs, 1965
“The labor movement needs to start thinking creatively if it’s going to survive,” said Aaron Dietrich, a 30-year-old Community Organizer for the Florida Public Services Union (FPSU) in St. Petersburg. “That means working with the community.” Dietrich, shows that creative thinking in his work for the People’s Budget Review (PBR), which meets at 5:30 every Monday at the FPSU’s offices at 449 Central Ave #104.
The St. Petersburg local of the Green Party of Florida (GPFL) is proud to announce its endorsement of Farid A. Khavari, independent candidate for governor of Florida.
Farid Khavari.
While the public is bombarded with the TV wrestling spectacle of Rick Scott vs. Charlie Crist for Florida governor, independent Farid Khavari is quietly making his way around the state. Khavari offers not rhetoric but solutions, centered on his plan for Florida to create a SuperBank which would reinvigorate the state’s economy through creating a “Zero Cost economy” to provide debt relief to millions through refinancing home mortgages and student loans, while generating a profit the state could use to serve needs such as expanded healthcare and education. His plan would foster a truly Green economy through “Environomics: The economics of environmentally safe prosperity.”
On July 19, 15 community and labor activists from St. Petersburg, Tampa and Orlando gathered at St. Petersburg’s North Branch Library to formally launch the Tampa Bay chapter of 15 Now.
The Movement for the $15/hour minimum wage comes to Florida beginning this Saturday. And you should be there on the Ground Floor. Activists from the Tampa Bay area and beyond will be gathering this Saturday, July 19, 3:30 p.m. at:
Hosted by Socialist Alternative, which led the successful fight in Seattle for the $15 minimum wage, the meeting will be a chance to get acquainted, get informed, and begin to lay out how we are going to win th15 is in the Sunshine State.
For more information, please call: (747) 482-9669.
They call it the 3rd rail of American politics. No politician dares . touch it, lest it bring down the wrath of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the rest of the Zionist lobby. It’s not just the money. It’s not just them. It’s our whole political culture — media, lobbies, the Christian Far Right, and the U.S. Defense/Security/War on Terror establishment.
