Suits (A Poem of Modern Empire)

Monarchs didn’t have to bloody their hands to enrich themselves and the court of "noble" land owners that served them…they had armies and “explorers” for that.

The monarchs of today, which we refer to as Captains of Industry, enrich themselves through Ceos, shareholders and resource acquisition which they call "wars on terror"…and the courts that serve them are world governments.

Charities only give back a fraction of what should not have been taken in the first place. If you want to change the world. Change the way business is done.

http://www.change.org/petitions/sign-now-to-enact-a-global-labor-treaty-world-peace-through-economic-justice

 

Suits

( A Poem of Modern Empire)

Soaked in indigenous blood

Perfect in cut

Ultimate in luxury

Prototypes of the latest fashion

Arm-candy spouses mill about

forgotten, vestigial organs

organizing charities -

necessary P.R. for

The Man who

takes everything

Plastic, public smiles

ever-mindful

of the stables of young flesh

housed nearby

for the exclusive use of
their conquerors

Marbled walls

flanked with official portraits

in the hallowed halls of

Will-To-Power

10/19/11

We Can Make Single Payer Health Care Happen NOW!!

The cost of our health care system is bankrupting America, even though there is an easy fix.

Health Insurance shareholders spend obscene amounts of money to propagate the myth, through print media and talking heads, that Single Payer Health Care is bad for us, and bad for the nation.

They are not just wrong. They are willfully wrong. In short, they are greedy.

20 years ago, Gore Vidal called Health Insurance companies "Piggy Banks for the Rich".

Insurance companies pit workers and employers against each other then benefit as the two sides destroy each other in the fray.

The dilemma is this:

Employers insist paying benefits cuts into their profits, so they won't hire workers until they break the unions.

Workers need jobs with decent salaries in order to raise their families and put food on the table, so they strike.

Everybody loses.

I think there is a simple and obvious solution:

GET CORPORATIONS AND WORKERS ON THE SAME PAGE.

I know, DUH, right? But why don't employers and workers march together for Single Payer Health Care?!

After decades of strife, they would finally get to be on the same side - standing together for the greater good, instead of doggedly occupying opposite sides of the table.

We are used to seeing CORPORATIONS as the enemy (which they are, while they are crunching numbers by crushing people) but Single Payer Health Care is something BOTH sides benefit from!

The only people who lose are the shareholders of health care companies - you know, the ones making billions, even trillions off of everyone else's misery.

Professor Margaret Flowers of Stanford University has put together an October2011 Movement in Washington D.C. (that coincides with the 10 year anniversary of the War in Afghanistan) to address national moral issues and bankrupting factors such as the Wars in the Middle-East and the lack of a Single Payer Health Care plan.

Margaret and I have corresponded via email and I suggested she call together as many manufacturing entities that she can contact, corporations that could be getting people back to work, and ask them to join her in Freedom Square on October 6th!!!

I hope anyone interested in moving the country forward and out of debt will check out her movement at http://october2011.org - along with the OccupyTogether Movement which Margaret has provided a link for.


At least, that's the way it seems to me,

Annie

http://www.youtube.com/user/annienomadepoet

Anonymous - A Voice For the Faceless

Anonymous

My face evokes

no shadow spark

of distant

familiarity

No instant

recognition of status

wordlessly

fixing my place

in the teeming pack

My name

carries with it

no history of

ancestral battles

won, or lost

I have only myself…

Words

abandoned to posterity

thoughts shared

eventually,

amongst strangers

Naked

beneath my cloak

of

Anonymity

9/23/11


©shareeannegorman2011

How to End Corporatocracy

We should start at the root of the problem. What has everybody up in arms around the globe right now? INEQUALITY. Lack of representation, lack of labor and lack of fair compensation.

There is a simple little truth that the super wealthy don't want us to look at. PROFIT comes from somewhere. The under-paid worker, the over-charged consumer or stolen resources from weaker nations.

I propose we enact a Global Labor Treaty for Sustainable Wages. A Global Labor Treaty would close the loop-holes that make it profitable for corporations to off-shore jobs, busting unions in the process.

A sustainable wage would allow vulnerable countries to feed their families, build infrastructure and retain the resources they need to create stability reducing their need for aid. Not only would this treaty end slave labor, but it would strengthen unions here at home.

Please take a moment to sign my petition to the U.N. for a Global Labor Treaty - it'll only take a second:) 

http://www.change.org/petition...

As far as voting goes, maybe waiting every four years to vote for candidates already bought and paid for isn't the best use of our energies. Corporations have the game sewn up. But they're not all-powerful. They need PROFIT to survive. PROFIT to influence politicians, to live in luxury and to buy sports stadiums.

PROFIT that comes from the labor and consumerism of the masses.

Organized Consumerism will affect the markets and will, therefore, get their attention. It's our job to be the checks and balances to their global control.

http://theconsumerparty.org

And, for inspiration a protest/solidarity song called, "The Tide". "The Tide" because that's what people become when they refuse to have their human rights denied.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Rm9uX9sPA

Getting to a point where whole nations are not in danger of starvation or annihilation should be our goal, shouldn't it?

What harm could a little good will do?

At least, that's the way it seems to me,
Annie

A Call To Intellectuals And Activists - The People Of The World Need A Unified Body Of Advanced Thought

My name is Sharee Anne Gorman.

I am a cyberpoet who goes by the name annienomad-cyberpoet.

I've been feeling pretty disheartened lately...but I had a thought:

If intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky, Dean Baker, Michael Hudson and activists like Ralph Nader, Michael Moore, Naomi Klein and others were to come together as a body to inform the citizens of the world of their true potential as a united front, I think people would listen to them.

A group/committee such as this, a non-party affiliated group, that has dedicated their lives to exposing misinformation and speaking truth to power, would have nothing to gain by lying to the people.

And let me tell you, though I'm sure you already know...people are tired of being lied to...tired of being fooled...tired at being at odds over false and deliberately misleading "information".

They need real information from a unified source. There must be some way to get caring, angry, confused and desperate-for-real-information citizens on the same page - A Same Page World Forum.

People could pose questions to The Same Page Forum. They could address issues like,

"Does voting still work?"

Seeing that it takes over a billion dollars to run for president, it is clear that candidates will only "promise" to serve the will of the people...as their first priority will be to serve power in the hopes of staying in power - which, of course, makes voting a depressing and pointless pantomime.

Since the emergence of global corporate entities, democracy is no longer democracy (or maybe it never was). There is no effective legal body to limit the power and control of multi-nationals. Armies serve the powerful, making the world safe for neo-liberalism, and widening the gap between rich and poor.

Evolution requires that when an old paradigm is no longer working, a new paradigm must emerge to take its place. We need a global form of democracy to match the globalization of power.

Here would be my suggestion:

Organized Consumerism...citizens who want a hand in their own future need to concentrate on Profit.

Changing quarterly profits, to be specific...just a point or two will cause CEOs and shareholders to take notice - and the average world citizen would suddenly have the undivided attention of the top 1%.

Perhaps if  people came to understand that corporate entities only understand the language of commerce, then they would see that their political leverage is as a Consumer, rather than a Voter. And there would be a fairly decent chance at establishing a balance of power. The power to stop corporate abuses, be they environmental or labor/wage related, would suddenly be a possibility rather than a distant and unattainable hope.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you for the sacrifices you make to help inform others,

Sharee Anne Gorman
annienomad-cyberpoet
http://theconsumerparty.org
http://1world1wage.org
http://www.youtube.com/user/annienomadepoet