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R2K Call to Action
R2K Call to Action
Actions in Philadelphia (8 pages)
Actions in Philadelphia (8 pages)
Information Sheet w/ all URLs
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Call of America Flyer (quotes and poem)
Call of America Flyer (quotes and poem)
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Why Protest the Conventions? - Michael Albert, Z Magazine
"Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands... The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature."
"The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights."
- Albert Einstein, 1949