Labor Day Movement: Separation of Corporate and State

I mention this at the end of this letter but sometimes people don't reach the end :) so please watch this video: http://www.jibjab.com/originals/time_for_some_campaignin

I'm listening to DemocracyNow.org and I'm amazed at what is happening at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. First of all, it's more a corporate convention than a people's convention. They have a walled off so-called "free speech" zone. These zones are "profoundly contemptuous of democracy" (a phrase borrowed from Noam Chomsky) and contemptuous of free speech. Why not put the "free speech" zone in Siberia or at the North Pole? Or better yet, in the death row section of a nearby prison.

Biden is, as Ralph Nader puts it, "the MasterCard Senator"

From DemocracyNow.org:

Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader described Biden as the MasterCard Senator. One of Biden's biggest corporate backers is the Delaware-based credit card company MBNA. Biden was the key architect of the 2005 bankruptcy law which made it harder for consumers to file for bankruptcy protection. At the time, Biden's son was working as a consultant to MBNA. Nader also criticized Biden for helping to create the modern drug war by pushing the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act.

We are doomed unless we all act together. We must be vigilant and be citizens, rather than consumers. In honor of Labor Day, we should rise up and refuse to work, refuse to spend, refuse to willingly participate in killing, terrorism, torture, and other war crimes.

We need:

• Complete separation of Corporate and State. (similar to separation of Church and State)
• Campaign reform. (Time and Spending limits) (even the NY Times reports that from Jan 1, 2007 to Jan 31, 2008 the four top candidates raised $335 million and spent $274 million)
  
• Election System reform (neoliberals like bush, clinton, obama believe in free markets except when it comes to elections. Then, closed arcane markets are just fine.) (paraphrased from "Failed States" by Noam Chomsky)
  
• The American people work too hard and for what? We, the People, need a mandatory 6 week yearly vacation minimum policy. Many fought and died for an 8 hour day, now we are reverting back to "work, then die" mentality.

Here's a video that sums things up: http://www.jibjab.com/originals/time_for_some_campaignin

Attached is the NY Times report on campaign spending for 2008.