Obama coming on your TV tomorrow...

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To "Explain" how he & his team "Saved" America/ The World from a depression.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6832953.ece

Hail the Cheif

Mike

[goadam1]

Re: Obama coming on your TV tomorrow...

First of all, the g20 is in Pittsburgh? Was the Toledo convention center booked? Why not New Orleans? At least they could go out for some Hurricanes and Gumbo after the meeting.

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Re: Obama coming on your TV tomorrow...

Groups to watch:

http://www.organizepittsburgh.org/

Pittsburgh Organizing Group (POG) is an anarchist group based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Our goal is the creation of a directly democratic, free society capable of maximizing human potential and freedom within a framework of collective responsibility, mutual-aid, and solidarity. In short... Anarchism. We are consensus-based, non-hierarchical, believe in affinity groups, and support a diversity of tactics. We are committed to building a movement that recognizes and opposes the interconnected forms of oppression. Our membership includes a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. We believe in autonomy and celebrating the strength all individuals bring to our movement due to their own unique life experiences. For more information on what we believe see our statement POG is an Anarchist Group For info on our structure and how we operate see our structure and statement of solidarity pages.

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Based on past summits the media will play the state game by focusing on whether protesters will be able to disrupt the ability of the summit to meet, using ominous and sensationalist stories with unsubstantiated claims of evil outsiders come to wreck havoc on the good people, because these stories, even if refuted and later disproved, serve to justify attacks on the public’s liberties and dignity. This must not, and will not, deter resistance. The stakes are too high.

The real value of this summit, to its participants and those resisting it, is not in the substance of the "leaders’" discussions. Our power is not in whether or not we have the ability to prevent a bunch of finance ministers and heads of state from talking. The real importance is in the way an undisrupted ceremony reinforces the dominant worldview. If that view is flawed, it must be rejected, and the spotlight such a gathering creates must be one in which people will manifest liberating social conflict.

We therefore believe that the necessary attempts of thousands to interfere with the summit are not an ends in and of themselves, they are a critical part of the means we can use to achieve the victory we are collectively organizing for in September: to heighten existing social resistance, and to present an alternative narrative of why our world is the way it is. We must make it clear that the world need not be this way, and talk about our vision for a movement towards a new society based not on profit and coercion but rooted in meeting collective needs for both material comfort and the freedom to pursue fulfilling lives of opportunity and dignity.

http://resistg20.org/

The Pittsburgh G20 Resistance Project (PG20RP) exists as a space to aid coordination and actualize resistance to the G20 summit happening this September 24-25 in Pittsburgh, PA. The group has coalesced around a shared desire to deepen ongoing social resistance locally, to demonstrate and build new and existing alternatives to the worldview represented by the G20 and the direct policies it promotes, and to disrupt the summit and undermine its attempts to gain legitimacy.

http://bailoutpeople.org/septg20call.shtml

In September the eyes of the world will be on Pittsburgh, where the G20 countries will meet to consider what to do about the biggest global economic crisis since the 1930s. The heads of governments, finance ministers and central bankers that will be in Pittsburgh for the summit hear the concerns of bankers and corporate executives all the time. They need to listen to the voices of the millions of people who have lost their jobs and their homes because of the crisis. The Bail out the People Movement, a coalition of community, labor, religious, and grassroots activists, wants to help dramatize the crisis of joblessness, and the need for action both in the U.S. and worldwide to the G20 summit. It is now clear that the stimulus legislation passed by the U.S. Congress in March has done little to stop the loss of jobs. There is no recovery for the unemployed, the underemployed and the poor; and things are only getting worse. This is why we’re asking you to help make the idea of a Global Week of Solidarity with the Unemployed from September 19 through September 26, the week of the G20 Summit, a reality.

[goadam1]

Re: Obama coming on your TV tomorrow...

Okay, now I get it. Hold the conference in a town that lost much of it's industrial workforce to emerging markets, while highlighting it's growth as a post-industrial center for conferences and other FIRE economy jobs.

And then the damn lefties will bus themselves in to remind people of the growing third world within the west. They may do something scary like spray paint a bank.

Groups to watch: