Archive for the ‘tuition’ tag
Maniacs go to college, 15 organizers face up to 2 years in jail for peacefully guarding home
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Allison and Jamie offer advice to Maniacs going to college, 15 organizers face up to two years in jail for peacefully guarding a home from foreclosure, the disturbing case of Brandon Raub, and members of Pussy Riot flee Russia.
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Student activists fight to save the world, on being a political prisoner
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Allison and Jamie briefly discuss the latest mass shootings in the U.S., followed by a field piece from Sarah Jaffe (@sarahljaffe) about student activists fighting to save the world, and Andy Stepanian of the SHAC 7(http://www.sparrowmedia.net/) joins the show to discuss serving three years in federal prison and the aftermath of being labeled a “terrorist” activist.
The original music in Sarah’s piece is by Emily In Love.
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Quebec students vote on whether to continue strike, how to escape your office job
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Allison and Molly discuss the Quebec students voting on whether to continue the strike, and taking shitty jobs for the sake of survival (and how you can escape!)
Austin G. Mackell (@austingmackell) reports from Egypt aboutPresident Morsy sacking his top generals.
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On wingmen, Afghanistan, Canada protests, and CISPA
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Allison and Jamie talk about the Afghanistan spiral, Canada student tuition protests, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), NSA spying, why the internet is a great tool for people to bypass their insane leaders, and Jamie’s excellent wingman skills.
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Rolling Stone’s Sabrina Erdely tells the story of one town’s war on gay teens
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Rolling Stone’s Sabrina Erdely (@SabrinaRErdely) joins the show to discuss her article about one town’s war on gay teens.
Before the interview, Allison and Jamie discuss the Kony 2012 scam, badass Canadians, and the same bunch of neoconservative chicken hawks drooling over the prospect of war with Iran.
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Premier of ‘Fridays With Bill Ayers’ and an interview with Pandagon’s Amanda Marcotte
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Allison talks about Bernie Sander’s audit of the Federal Reserve, which is beginning to help us understand where our tax dollars went during the bailouts.
According to recent polls, the Afghanistan war is now as unpopular as the Iraq War was during the Bush years, and people are actually more concerned about ending the war than they are about fixing the deficit. Not that you’d know any of this from watching the news, of course.
It’s the triumphant return of “What The Fuck Did They Just Do?” This week’s topics: Mortgages, credit scores, and the NRA.
Jamie has some choice words for the ex-vegans out there, and Pandagon’s Amanda Marcotte stops by to talk abot sexism, blogging, feminism, and atheism. Be sure to read all of Amanda’s writing at Pandagon.net, and check out her book, “It’s a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.”
It’s time for the premier of Fridays With Bill, a weekly segment in which Bill Ayers gives his thoughts about a timely topic. This week, Bill talks about the London student tuition protests, and the supposed lack of passion from U.S. students.
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Dispatches from UK student protest frontlines, Richard Holbrooke’s legacy, and prison strikes
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Godless Maniac Josh Kitto offer his first-hand account of what went down at the UK student protests. Plus, a solidarity shout-out to Godless Maniac Andy who is staging an occupation at his university in opposition to budget cuts. You can check out his occupation blog at http://ltsac.wordpress.com.
Citizen Radio revisits the Bush-Blair memos (Correction: Allison accidentally called this the “Bush-Brown” memos.) which revealed US-UK leaders planned to target Al Jazeera’s headquarters.
Then, a brief discussion about Richard Holbrooke’s horrible legacy, including backing military dictatorships and illegal military invasions.
Jamie shares another insane tasering story, plus a disturbing/adorable story about cows.
The largest prison strike in US history is happening right now – not that you’d ever know that from watching the news. Allison reads the prisoners’ demands, which include educational opportunities and access to visiting their families.
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Interview with Anonymous, the group behind Operation Payback, more on Wikileaks, and London protests
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An interview with a representative from Anonymous, the group behind Operation Payback, which emerged after the arrest of Wikileaks’ leader, Julian Assange.
UK students continue to kick ass as they protest insane tuition hikes. Citizen Radio plays the audio from an inspiring speech made by…a 15-year-old student.
It’s time for more of your Listener Mail! Questions/comments this week include starting your own protest club, and indy media versus mainstream media.
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Video: UK protesters force tax-cheater’s Topshop store to close
Have I recently stated my emphatic love for young protesters? They have the best energy and creative thinking when it comes to the kinds of protests that closed Topshop’s flagship branch on London’s Oxford Street.
Some background:
A UK Uncut spokesman said they targeted the shop because it was part of Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia retail group.
Campaigner Stephen Trevelian, 26, from Brighton, said: “Philip Green is a multi-billionaire tax avoider, and yet is regarded by David Cameron as an appropriate man to advise the Government on austerity.”
Philip Green is the ninth richest man in Britain, and he is indeed a tax cheater.
While Green lives and works in the UK, the Arcadia Group is registered in the name of his wife, Tina, who is resident in Monaco and so enjoys a 0% income-tax rate. In 2005 this arrangement allowed the Greens to bank £1.2bn, the biggest paycheck in British corporate history, without paying a penny in tax. This completely legal dodge cost the British taxpayer £285m, enough to pay the salaries of 9,000 NHS nurses or the £9,000 fees of close to 32,000 students. In an age of austerity, the link between tax avoidance and public sector cuts becomes crystal clear.
Here is the excellent Johann Hari on the tax avoidance stuff, in this case by Vodafone:
For years now, Vodafone has been claiming that a major chunk of its business should not be subject to British taxes – that could run to billions of pounds – because the deal was routed through a company in ultra low tax Luxembourg. The company – which has doubled its profits during this recession – engaged in all kinds of accounting twists and turns; they looked set to pay a sum Private Eye calculates to be more than £6bn.
Then, suddenly, the exchequer – run by George Osborne – cancelled almost all of the outstanding tax bill, in a move a senior figure in Revenues and Customs says is “an unbelievable cave-in.” A few days after the decision, Osborne was promoting Vodafone on a tax-payer funded trip to India. He then appointed Andy Halford, the finance director of Vodafone, to the government’s Advisory Board on Business Tax Rates, apparently because he thinks this is a model of how the Tories think it should be done.
The Indian government and Vodafone are fighting in the courts over the billions in tax it is claiming from the company. Yes, the British state is less functional than the Indian state when it comes to collecting revenues from the wealthy. This is not an isolated incident. Richard Murphy, of Tax Research UK, calculates that UK corporations fail to pay a further £12bn a year in taxes they legally owe, while the rich avoid or evade up to £120bn.
Middle class students in the UK are literally being priced out of an education right now, and yet multi-billion dollar companies are permitted to cheat Britain out of tax money simply because they’re managed to bribe the correct leaders into doing their bidding.
It’s enough to make one want to don masks and chase shoppers around a store.
Indebted UC students: put down the soy lattes
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If you awoke this morning with a hankering for a hit piece on student protesters, look no further than the grey lady.
The article is written by Scott James AKA Kemble Scott, author of The Sower, which the internet tells me is a very exciting tale:
A twisted, page-turning thriller about a San Francisco bad boy who becomes the sole carrier of a manmade supervirus that appears to be the cure for all diseases. But the only way to pass the cure to others is through sex. When word gets out, he becomes the world’s most wanted man – the ultimate weapon in the culture wars, pitting him against right wing extremists, The Roman Catholic Church, and the most famous pop star on the planet.
I hear James is also a journalist. At the very least, he has a Facebook account, which I guess is how he came across an event titled, “How about we DON’T protest on March 4th?”
