Minnesota

Rosemary Williams and four other Minnesota women have decided to resist the foreclosure and eviction monster that's destroying our communities.

People from the Twin Cities are helping these women defy eviction, the Hennepin County Sheriff, and the big banks that want to steal their homes. Produced by Twin Cities Indymedia and the Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign. Here's the 110-second trailer; the full 12 minute video is posted below the fold...
 

110-second trailer URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGZCXaXSbbA
12-minute video URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQeNyVjHuvQ

We have heard that Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty will announce his 'unallotment' cuts entirely on one day in the next few weeks, in a plan to manipulate perceptions by attempting to contain the bad news into one news cycle. With little publicity, this day will arrive suddenly, it is hoped, denying his opponents a basis to organize against.

The bad news will begin on this day — good people will die, in particular because of Pawlenty's planned cut to Local Government Aid of at least $400,000,000, possibly much more. The beginning of Fiscal Year 2010 is July 1st, 2009. Before then, Pawlenty will cut off funding to everything in a way that will assuredly pander to national GOP primary voters. Our state and its still-strong social welfare net (as well as previously "equalized" statewide local government funding) will be the test lab for a sinister, hardcore GOP austerity agenda that may serve as the foundation of an authoritarian-rightwing populist electoral message in future years. The Shock Doctrine will get practiced against the cities and towns, first of all, by ripping apart the "Minnesota Miracle" funding streams that financed strong statewide local education (and services) since the 1970s.

Higher education tuition rates and health services will also get damaged, worsening the quality of life for the middle class (let alone other classes). Hennepin County Medical Center and Regions Hospital, to begin with, will start slashing services because of the GAMC Fiscal Year 2011 veto (which technically starts next July 1st). 

It's not a game, but for Pawlenty it always is. When the local governments have to hike property taxes or abandon everything, the statewide media will refuse to connect Pawlenty to it. More depressing to see are political reporters concur that the public perception that Pawlenty hiked the taxes "won't stick." They won't push any context.

That's what's coming up. It seems like Pawlenty's great day of state terrorism should be really unpleasant in order to cut the coverup down to size. It'd be a great day for a general strike, or just a time to stop and reflect on what authoritarian prairie fascism looks like. It's your preview of class warfare for the 2012 election.

Join the
Underground Railroad Project
Of
MN Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign

Do you have a spare room, an extra bed, or floor space and blankets you are willing to offer one night a month to families in need of shelter?

The Project is currently building a network of emergency one-night stay options for families evicted due to foreclosures.

NPR Continues To Promote War, Vivisection , Fast Food, and Rupert Murdoch
Link:
Democracy Now
NPR Continues To Promote War, Vivisection ,Fast Food, and Rupert Murdoch

NPR is literally invested in fast food. It is run by career war promoters, a USIA run network.
NPR Continues To Promote War, Vivisection ,Fast Food, and Rupert Murdoch

NPR PROMOTES THE WARS WHICH KILL ANIMALS AS WELL
AS PEOPLE

NPR (actually National Pentagon Radio) continued to promote Iraq war
through an interview with Tom Ricks, author of Fiaxco,
who is subtly asking for 6 more years in Iraq

www.alfranken.com Franken can give a filibuster proof Senate

See the senate link at
http://www.electoral-vote.com/

As of right now..35 races will be decided on Nov 4.
19 are expected Democrat 15 are leaning Republican and Minnesota
is tied. 2 states have 2 races because Craig
Thomas died in Wyoming and Trent Lott resigned
in Mississippi.

At least 3 Republicans were installed by Diebold
and not elected. They are NH Sununu, GA Chambliss,
and MN Coleman fraudulently installed though Shaheen in NH, Cleland
in GA and Vice President Mondale in MN were elected.

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On September 2nd, Members of Dakota Oyate reoccupied the land surrounding Coldwater Spring. As Dakota people who consider the spring as essential to our spiritual lifeway and the surrounding land as a part of our homeland of Bdote, we believe that we will be better stewards of the land than the United States has been. This is evidenced in the fact that the site is abandoned, littered with dilapidated structures, and the soil is polluted.

On Tuesday September 2nd, Members of the Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires) of the Dakota Oyate reoccupied Coldwater Spring and the surrounding land. The Coldwater Spring site is an abandoned property of the defunct Bureau of Mines. As Dakota people who consider the spring as essential to our spiritual lifeway and the surrounding land as a part of our homeland of Bdote, we believe that we will be better stewards of the land than either the United States or the State of Minnesota has been. This is evidenced in the fact that the site is littered with dilapidated