http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Corporate_Takeover-City_King.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsKiln There’s no question that there are new regulations governing bank transfers. Banks are trying to claim that anti-terrorism measures are the cause, though more than a decade after 9/11, it seems unlikely to me. There seem to be three reasons that some banks are running from …
Month: July 2014
Ralph Nader’s Convergence, Billionaires, and Participation Nonprofits
Kiln Ralph Nader understood a huge amount about building self-sufficient operations. His original public interest projects were financed by the settlement he won from General Motors and his book, Unsafe at Any Speed. The Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) established in numerous large publicly funded universities shrewdly created capacity for consumer advocacy by winning …
Private Corrections Industry in League with Public Officials Bringing Back Debtors’ Prisons
Kiln The law is clear. The United States Supreme Court held in Bearden v. Georgia thirty years ago in 1983 that probation cannot be canceled nor can jail time be given, because a defendant is too poor to pay a fine. Yet, increasingly in these times when the shrinking of the state greets us coldly …