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WATCH: Ben Manski, Leland Pan, Jolie Lizotte and more on the future of student organizing

By Liberty Tree Foundation

Last August hundreds of people from across the country convened in Madison, WI for the  2nd Democracy Convention.  Made up of nine individual conferences, the Convention was an extraordinary space for individuals and organizations to network with and learn from one another in the service of building a larger, more dynamic democracy movement.

NAOMI KLEIN: How Science Is Telling Us All To Revolt

By Naomi Klein

In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems researcher named Brad Werner made his way through the throng of 24,000 earth and space scientists at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held annually in San Francisco. This year’s conference had some big-name participants, from Ed Stone of Nasa’s Voyager project, explaining a new milestone on the path to interstellar space, to the film-maker James Cameron, discussing his adventures in deep-sea submersibles.

WATCH: New documentary about Move to Amend

By Move to Amend

Move to Amend is thrilled that our brand new mini documentary about Move to Amend is FINISHED!

ELLEN BROWN: We need public banks more than ever

By Ellen Brown

To ask whether public banks would interfere with free markets assumes that we have free markets, which we don’t. Banking is heavily subsidized and is monopolized by Wall Street, which has effectively “bought” Congress. Banks have been bailed out by the government, when in a free market they would have gone bankrupt.

CNET: SOPA's Most Aggressive Defender -- the US Chamber of Commerce

By '> Declan McCullagh

(Originally posted on November 30, 2011)

There is no more influential business lobby group in the world than the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which boasts that its "core purpose is to fight for free enterprise" and "individual freedom."

DC EXAMINER: Operation Green Jobs' unparalleled march

By '> Christine Kroll

With U.S. Chamber of Commerce representatives standing by and security guards at the door, the Operation Green Jobs March, sponsored by Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC), and Shut the Chamber, arrived in Washington, DC on May 24th as planned, from Philadelphia, PA.

SCRIPPS WIRE SERVICE: Activists March 150 miles to protest against corporate lobby

By Barbara Duarte

WASHINGTON – Guillermo Santos, 10, walked 150 miles from Philadelphia to Washington bringing letters that his classmates wrote for President Barack Obama, asking him to stop budget cuts affecting public schools. He was with a group of activists who ended their six-day march Friday with a rally in front of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The protesters rallied against the chamber’s lobbying efforts in support of multinational corporations.

OCCUPIED WALL STREET JOURNAL: Operation Green Jobs- Join the 150-mile March to DC

By Carl Gibson

(For more info about how you can get involved in this action click here)

An upcoming action this month is simultaneously taking on the unemployment crisis, the climate crisis, and the corporate corruption of Congress crisis all at once. And it needs your support.

TALKING POINTS MEMO: US Chamber Racks Up Huge Wins From Current Supreme Court

By Sahil Kapur

Last term, the Chamber of Commerce was undefeated — it won every Supreme Court case it weighed in on. So far this term, it has secured favorable rulings in 6 out of 7 cases.

HUFFINGTON POST: Nike Quits U.S. Chamber Board of Directors over Climate Change

By Jenna Staul

(Originally published on November 30, 2009)

Nike will step down from its position on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's board of directors, reports Politico.

The company will not, however, drop its membership in the chamber entirely, saying that it plans to "advocate for climate change legislation" from within the organization.

POLITICO: Angry member groups shun U.S. Chamber of Commerce

By Jeanne Cummings

(Originally published on December 7, 2010)

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is under fire from some local chambers over its hard-hitting $75 million ad campaign to elect a Republican House, with dozens of groups distancing themselves from the effort and a handful even quitting the national group in protest.

NYTIMES: Current Supreme Court Most Corporate-Friendly Since World War II

By Adam Liptak

NOT long after 10 a.m. on March 27, a restless audience waited for the Supreme Court to hear arguments in the second of two historic cases involving same-sex marriage.

HUFFINGTON POST: Kick the Habit, Congress

By Carl Gibson

What if there was a really smart, knowledgeable, innovative guy who had dreams of curing cancer or writing a bestselling novel or recording an acclaimed album, but couldn't do any of the above because of a crippling cocaine addiction? Similarly, Congress' deadly addiction to corporate cash is the main reason Washington is unable to solve the myriad problems affecting our economy, environment and politics. If only we could help Congress kick the habit, our government could work for us again.

NATION OF CHANGE: Join Operation Green Jobs, from May 18 to May 24

By Carl Gibson

An upcoming action this month is simultaneously taking on the unemployment crisis, the climate crisis, and the corporate corruption of Congress crisis all at once. And it needs your support.

MSNBC: How the Chamber of Commerce conquered the Supreme Court

By Zachary Roth

In 1971, Lewis Powell, a well-connected corporate lawyer, wrote a confidential memo to an official at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “The American economic system is under broad attack,” Powell warned, by everyone from “New Leftists and other revolutionaries” to academics, the media, and politicians. It was time for the right, and the Chamber itself, to fight back.

PRWATCH: Private Prison Company Affiliated With US Chamber Conducts Drug Raids at Public Schools

By Beau Hodai

An unsettling trend appears to be underway in Arizona: the use of private prison employees in law enforcement operations.

The state has graced national headlines in recent years as the result of its cozy relationship with the for-profit prison industry. Such controversies have included the role of private prison corporations in SB 1070 and similar anti-immigrant legislation disseminated in other states; a 2010 private prison escape that resulted in two murders and a nationwide manhunt; and a failed bid to privatize nearly the entire Arizona prison system.

U.S. CHAMBER WATCH: Almost 60 Local Chambers Have Left US Chamber

By Public Citizen

Since 2009, nearly 60 local Chambers of Commerce have publicly denounced or canceled their membership to the U.S. Chamber, citing the national organization's extreme positions. For a printable list of these organizations and their statements CLICK HERE.

Local Chambers That Have Denounced Or Withdrawn From The U.S. Chamber:

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES: US Chamber-Sponsored Senator Helped Monsanto Write Monsanto Protection Act

By '> Connor Adams Sheets

(Note: Monsanto is Sen. Roy Blunt's #6 campaign contributor. Blunt also received a $1,000 donation from the US Chamber of Commerce during his 2010 campaign. The group has also given him a 97% approval rating for his pro-corporate voting record.)

(Originally published on March 27, 2013)

CROOKS & LIARS: US Chamber Supports Fracking, Opposes Safety Nets

By Karoli

(originally published on January 26, 2013)

If you want to understand the source of the world's problems, follow the Davos coverage by CNN and Bloomberg News for a few days. Not only will they tell you what the source is, they'll prove that your instincts are right about billionaires and those who present them as the arbiters of all things fair and right.

USCHAMBER.COM: Chamber Opposes Minimum Wage Increase

By US Chamber of Commerce PR

(Originally posted on Januray 10, 2007)

WASHINGTON, D.C.-The United States Chamber of Commerce expressed disappointment today with the U.S. House of Representatives for passing an increase in the federal minimum wage and encouraged the Senate to carefully consider its impact on small businesses.

USCHAMBER.COM: Chamber Applauds SCOTUS Ruling Limiting Class-Action Lawsuits

By US Chamber of Commerce PR

**This is a press release from the US Chamber's website, commending the SCOTUS for pushing class-action lawsuit plaintiffs out of state courts and forcing them into corporate-friendly federal courts. The SCOTUS has ruled 100% in the US Chamber's favor since the start of Obama's presidency.

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Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Chamber of Commerce today praised a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that preserves a key provision of the landmark Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA).

PUBLIC CITIZEN: US Chamber Accused of Failing to Report Millions in Campaign Spending

By Angela Bradbery, Barbara Holzer, Rachel Lewis, Jake Parent

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its affiliated Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) failed to report millions in taxable spending from 2000 to 2004 intended to influence state-level attorney general and supreme court races and federal races around the country, according to a Public Citizen complaint filed today with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

NYT: Americans in non-swing states less likely to vote and millions of ballots are still being counted

By Nate Silver

Initial accounts of last Tuesday’s presidential election contemplated what seemed to be a significant decline in turnout from 2008. Those reports may have been premature, at least in part. Some states, particularly those where much balloting is conducted by mail, have yet to finish counting their returns. It is likely that there are several million votes left to be counted in California, for example. Nonetheless, it seems probable that we will see something of a split in the number of people who turned out to vote in 2012.

AP: South Carolina GOP wants to stop recount, but Election Day problems show importance of completing recount

By Associated Press

South Carolina Republicans on Friday asked the state's highest court to stop a recount of votes in Richland County, arguing that a GOP candidate fairly won a disputed legislative race.

The state party made the request to the Supreme Court a day after a circuit judge ordered that ballots and voting machines in Richland County be guarded by state police while state election officials reviewed them. County election officials had planned to certify election results Friday, but that process is on hold.

TRUTHOUT: Lack of transparency in exit polling makes it more difficult to know when an election is rigged

By '> Victoria Collier

 

Stealing your vote is easier than ever now that the media has decided it can't afford the exit polling that helped track irregular ballot counts in more than a third of the states. Here's why it's important, and what you can do.

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