Wednesday: Direct Action Training and Visioning for #S17 Robin Hood Tax Action
Posted 10 years ago on Aug. 20, 2013, 8:08 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
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via the Occupy Network team and S17 Robin Hood Tax action partners:
Join us August 21 to dream up direct actions to bring attention to the Robin Hood Tax Campaign
The Robin Hood Tax is a galvanizing issue for this historical moment, and it's a winnable fight to boot. It is a financial transaction tax that takes .05% from Wall Street transactions. Just .05% creates $350 Billion dollars a year in new revenue for America. $350 Billion pays for universal healthcare, $350 Billion ends students debt, $350 Billion funds a green jobs program and much much more.
The Robin Hood Tax is movement legislation. It is a long-term fight for a more just world. The National Nurses Union, Transit Workers United, Vocal NY, Act UP and Occupy are throwing our collective weight behind this issue on Sept. 17th to begin to chart a vision forward out of perpetual Environmental and Economic Crisis.
Let’s dream about how to best make a tangible impact this S17. We have a rough sketch of plans so far, but in order to create an action of creativity and finesse, we need you!
We hope to see you there for this important brainstorm session where we’ll create a concrete plan for how we should proceed.
Wednesday, August 21st
The Brooklyn Commons
388 Atlantic Ave. BK, NYC
7PM
Very worthy of support. Unlikely the MSM will mention it because a huge majority of Americans would support this if they knew about the details.
Solidarity to http://robinhoodtax.org/ - and you make a great point.
Never Give Up On Spreading The Information! Occupy The Issues!
Children need Robin Hood
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1408/S00509/robin-hood-tax-and-other-clever-ways-to-help-our-kids.htm
Labor needs Robin hood (Tax)
http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/Chris-Williamson-Opinion-polls-suggest-public/story-22846907-detail/story.html
This one is good:
http://www.allvoices.com/article/17630182
Peace, not givin up
The need for a Financial Transaction Tax - especially when the rest of us pay taxes on just about everything, is really a total no-brainer for most people but as our government has been so totally captured by Wall Street, then such obvious ideas do not get a look in. One of the reasons for the refusal to pay a tiny percentage of tax on financial transactions, is that it could reveal the extent of High Frequency Trading transactions and their potentially highly fraudulent nature.
Irrespective of who wins the next Potus race, we need people like Alan Grayson, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren to hold Wall Street to account, because the vast majority of Congress, D&R - won't do it because their mouths are so stuffed with gold or they are on a promise for lucrative directorship jobs when they leave Congress. It's all so sickening and for example - http://www.nationofchange.org/myths-and-facts-about-koch-brothers-1409673365
Never Give Up Fighting For Fairness! Occupy Wall Street!
Definitely MORE like those you mentioned. This election cycle is not promising, more pressure from the street is required.
Peace.
http://robinhoodtax.org/ is totally a fair way to raise taxes for major governmental investments in pubic infrastructure but oligarchs and plutocrats and psychopaths like The Kochs hate the idea of course - http://www.nationofchange.org/2014/11/12/koch-backed-nonprofit-raised-44-million-2013/ and they are a huge threat to US Democracy - such as it is! Never Give Up On The 99%! Occupy The 1%! Solidarity.
I always thought this was a great action, glad its getting some more play.
Tossing in some kind of time limits in trading would be nice as well, something like if you make a trade you have to wait 60 seconds before making another one.
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haha! Good point.
The National Nurses Union, Transit Workers United, Vocal NY, Act UP and Occupy
Just like that.
Corps paying fair share of taxes?
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/polls/corporate-taxes?utm_source=berniebuzz&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Do+you+think+corporations+are+paying+their+fair+share+in+federal+taxes+prompt_url&utm_campaign=National+Bernie+Buzz+07-26
Support a Robin hood tax
In compliment: NYPD shoot themselves again.
NYPD assaults judge trying to protect handcuffed homeless man from beating, judge sues, by Horace Boothroyd III
Occupy supports RobinHood Tax. & still fighting for it.
Like New Zealand is
http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/why-not-let-robin-hood-help-our-children-thrive/5/200286
Britain hasn't forgotten:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fatcat-bankers-face-having-hand-3939613
Some US bits:
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/article/20140816/Opinion/140819730
http://www.robinhoodtax.org/news/breaking-news
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Who opposes Robinhoodtax?
http://ourfuture.org/20140415/gop-budget-the-anti-robin-hood-spending-plan
Provide info, let the people decide.
Retire anti robinhoodtax pols
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Are you really that bald or is your neck just blowing a bubble?