Eric Cantor tells Tea Party to "take to streets," but calls Occupiers a "mob"

Check out this great video from Jon Stewart about the hypocrisy of GOP leaders deriding people who are standing up for the 99%.

And join us on Friday, October 21 in Philadelphia to greet Eric Cantor. He's speaking on economic inequality in the United States, but he opposes anything that seriously addresses that issue.

Join us:
Tell Eric Cantor "We are America!"
Friday, October 21
3:30- 6:00 PM
Walnut and 38th Sts.
Philadelphia

What is the Occupy Movement about? Alan Grayson summarizes in 1 1/2 minutes

Take action here. Tell Congress you unerstdand--and support--the Occupy Movement.

Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka On Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street has captured the imagination and passion of millions of Americans who have lost hope that our nation’s policymakers are speaking for them. We support the protesters in their determination to hold Wall Street accountable and create good jobs. We are proud thattoday on Wall Street, bus drivers, painters, nurses and utility workers are joining students and homeowners, the unemployed and the underemployed to call for fundamental change. Across America, working people are turning out with their friends and neighbors in parks, congregations and union halls to express their frustration – and anger -- about our country’s staggering wealth gap, the lack of work for people who want to work and the corrupting of our politics by business and financial elites. The people who do the work to keep our great country running are being robbed not only of income, but of a voice. It is time for all of us—the 99 percent—to be heard.

As we did when we marched on Wall Street last year, working people call on corporations, big banks, and the financial industry to do their part to create good jobs, stop foreclosures and pay their fair share of taxes.

· Wall Street and corporate America must invest in America: Big corporations should invest some of the $2 trillion in cash they have on hand, and use it to create good jobs. And the banks themselves should be making credit more accessible to small businesses, instead of parking almost $1 trillion at the Federal Reserve.

· Stop foreclosures: Banks should write down the 14 million mortgages that are underwater and stop the more than 10 million pending foreclosures to stop the downward spiral of our housing markets and inject more than $70 billion into our economy.

· Fund education and jobs by taxing financial speculation: A tiny tax on financial transactions could raise hundreds of billions in revenue that could fund education and create jobs rebuilding our country. And it would discourage speculation and encourage long term investment.

We will open our union halls and community centers as well as our arms and our hearts to those with the courage to stand up and demand a better America.

Support the Occupy Movement: Demand a Presidential Commission on the Influence of Money on our Democracy

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Tell Washington: We've had enough of big money buying our democracy

There is a worldwide movement emerging that is calling for real representative democracy. It has changed the Middle East forever and has brought people together in nations around the world.

In recent weeks, the movement came to the United States in the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. Now, people in hundreds of cities in the U.S. are taking to the streets to say that we’ve had enough of the influence of big money interests. Our elected officials should be working to protect the interests of working families.

Keystone Progress supports the efforts of the people occupying Wall Street and other cities across the U.S. And we are asking our subscribers to sign a petition backing their demand:

We demand that President Barack Obama establish a Presidential Commission tasked with ending the influence money has over our representatives in Washington.

It’s a simple demand, but it can change the way our nation works. An overwhelming majority of Americans agrees that that money plays too much of a role in the way decisions are made in Washington, and in our state capitols. A commission to find ways to limit that influence can have profound impact on our economy and our democracy.

As the folks at AdBusters wrote, “This could be the beginning of a whole new social dynamic in America, a step beyond the Tea Party movement, where, instead of being caught helpless by the current power structure, we the people start getting what we want… Beginning from one simple demand – a presidential commission to separate money from politics – we start setting the agenda for a new America.”

We can do this if we stand together, and stand firm. We’re asking you to do two things today:

1) Send an email directly to President Obama, and your Members of Congress demanding the Presidential Commission; and

2) Send this to all of your friends, family and co-workers. Use email, Facebook, Twitter and every other resource you have.

If you join our efforts, we’ll send you updates when there are Occupy events happening in your area and when there are other significant related actions happening.

It's time for DEMOCRACY NOT CORPORATOCRACY, we're doomed without it.

In Solidarity:
The Keystone Progress Team