Pls Help Facing South Track Birther Madness

Submitted by Jerimee on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 5:57pm

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I've agreed to start helping Facing South and the Institute for Southern Studies with their online outreach efforts. As many BlueNC readers know, the Institute was started 40 years ago as the research arm of the civil rights movement, and continues in that capacity today by reporting on environmental justice, workers' rights, corporate accountability, and people powered democracy.

Clearly exhibit A in the case that people powered democracy is under assault by corporate money is the rent-a-riot squads that have been attacking town hall events throughout America. Corporate front groups like Americans for Prosperity, Freedom Works, and the NCGOP have been effective in their defense of the status quo health insurance industry. What can I say? Direct action works, even when practiced by a relatively small number of partisans paid to travel the state.

Facing South is gearing up to watchdog these events and report on the misinformation being spread by the insurance industry.

We need your help! Join our team of Town Hall Trackers and tell us what happens at events in your area. You can email us news links, or send us first-hand reports and video to document the insanity. Thank you to everyone who has been posting this info on BlueNC.

Below is video from last Friday's protest on Brad Miller's office the day after Miller received death threats from an anti-reform protester:

This one has the actual facts the birthers are attempting to invent:

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photo from Price town hall happening now

Submitted by Jerimee on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 6:28pm.

Stole this from CN's facebook feed (hopefully doesn't mind):

Billionaires Against Healthcare

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I don't know Jerimee

Submitted by funluvn on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 7:09pm.

When I listen to NPR, the people they interview seem to almost always preface their comments with "I'm not astroturfing, or whatever they call it. I'm here to ask questions of my..."

Check with radiogirl. This is NPR. These are wingnuts. That is their scripted ignorant preface, each and every time.

Anything to bring down the American people that don't own a castle in Europe or a country in Asia.

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Yes, I know.

Submitted by funluvn on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 7:14pm.

Yet, they are learning to lie better so therefore I wanted to mention it.

Someone, must have been Limpbaugh, Manatee, Savage-Weiner, etc. told them to ex-nay on the irther-bay. This week.

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Just Wait Til The Jobless Start Protesting

Submitted by Doremus Jessup on Fri, 08/14/2009 - 6:05am.

On Wednesday, the Labor Department reported that more than half a million workers were affected by mass layoff actions in the second quarter of this year—a record high for the quarter since the data series began in 1995. Employers initiated 2,994 mass layoff events—defined as those affecting at least 50 workers at a work site. This number was also a record for the quarter. Only 38 percent of the employers said they anticipated some type of recall, the lowest proportion on record.