Poverty

This level of community angst (there were a lot of people marching and a lot of occupied cities) is not so much about capitalism as a form of economic viability as it is about how criminality infiltrates capitalistic tendencies. There is probably “no” country more corrupt that our current empire here in the United States. That is the main issue. Not just corporate greed but its caustic effects in bribing Congress, the news media, the Executive branch of government, and the alienation of the majority of other countries against our lies, deceit, our government corrupting other peoples, the wars, and the torture, etc.

12:22PM: Happening now at the Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St.). 11AM - 10PM. All poets artists and musicians in the Rochester and WNY region are invited to join this world-wide, creative action for change. In Rochester, we will cook, serve, perform, and share the call for an end to hunger and homelessness in our communities.
12:26PM: Colleen Powderly is currently reading poetry upstairs. Rochester Indymedia is recording the event; it will be put up on our Blip.TV channel at IndyTV.Blip.TV. Rochester Indymedia is also having a fundraising bake sale.

As the lines for the nation’s hungry have increased, President Obama and Congress have consistently subsidized big corporations and banks, billionaires and big corporations have received big tax breaks, the U.S. military and foreign operations are expanding abroad, the U.S. has engaged in a war with Libya, and it is now being estimated that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will cost the U.S. government $4 trillion.