Those Damned Hippies. They're Saving the Post Office.
Those Damned Hippies. They're Saving the Post Office.
by jpmassar
Yup. Hippies. Straight out of the 60's, looking oddly like grandparents these days. Hardcore labor unionists. Harscrabble activists. Street kids. Cal students. Throw in a few of Berkeley's famous homeless and They may think it's a movement (as Arlo famously put it). A movement to save the Berkeley Post Office and stop the Privatization of our Commons.
One hundred plus people rallied at the downtown Berkeley Post Office yesterday, celebrating 15 days of successful Occupation organized by an activist coalition from Save the Berkeley Post Office and Strike Debt Bay Area.
We're fighting to stop the sale of the Berkeley Post Office. We're trying to call attention to the seemingly inexorable push to privatize and de-unionize the entire Post Office, just one instance of the more general goal of privatization across the board - from education to Social Security, from Medicare to owning the roads. (For more on these issues and the Occupation see the articles referenced in Background etal at the end of this picture essay).
Let's start with the basics: Why Are They There?
Read more:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/11/1230418/-Those-Damned-Hippies-They-re-Saving-the-Post-Office?detail=action
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...has been a non-stop Bi-Partisan "Everything MUST GO" Re-Distribution of our common assets to the 1% Ownership Class since the Reagan Years.
It is part of the NeoLiberal Economic Doctrine, which is really just a fancier new name for the Old Conservative Trickle Down Economics.
Since BOTH major Political Parties practice what was once called "Voo Doo Economics", The White House, Senate, and House can change hands with virtually NO Disruption of the flow of wealth FROM the Working Class TO the 1%.
QED
They even invented a brand new GOD to replace the OLD god who wanted us to be kind to the poor.
Like the Old God, our New GOD is all-powerful and INVISIBLE too!
[font size=4]All Hail The Giant Invisible Hand!!![/font]
[font size=4]The Graven Image on the altar
of the Church of the Invisible Hand.[/font]
You will know them by their [font size=3]WORKS.[/font]
