The last two GA meetings were attended by 5 and 6 members respectively. We need to decide what we are going to do during this spring as well as to understand what level of participation we will have. The following options were discussed during these two meetings. We need people to weigh in on these as well as to provide additional ideas.
1. Michael is looking into an affinity group which is considering supporting a family with a disabled child who are facing foreclosure. Michael, do you have a status for this?
Here are some recent photos of our group rallies! Travelling up and down the Shoreline to bring the Occupy movement home to us.
"Apple employs 43,000 people in the United States and 20,000 overseas, a small fraction of the over 400,000 American workers at General Motors in the 1950s, or the hundreds of thousands at General Electric in the 1980s. Many more people work for Apple’s contractors: an additional 700,000 people engineer, build and assemble iPads, iPhones and Apple’s other products. But almost none of them work in the United States. Instead, they work for foreign companies in Asia, Europe and elsewhere, at factories that almost all electronics designers rely upon to build their wares.
Paul Krugman argues that intensified income inequality in the USA is its major social problem and that income inequality in the USA (which now is approaching a classic rigid inheritance-based class system) is new flywheel of racial inequality. He summarizes the situation facing African Americans as follows: "Goodbye Jim Crow, hello class system."
