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The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century

Michel Chossudovsky and Andrew Gavin Marshall, Editors

Global Research

ISBN 978-0-9737147-3-9

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I’m Kellia Ramares, news tech and board op at KPFA, and one of the
reporters arrested in the newsroom on July 13,1999 and co-founder of
Guns and Butter.



On June 29th, I was informed that my work hours would be cut from 11
per week to 6. A 45% reduction, mostly in my hours as the weekend News
Tech. Six hours a week is not enough to live on.



Is KPFA really so broke that it can not pay me a little more than $1200
over the next three months? Because that’s the difference betw… Continue

Due to budget cuts ordered by the Pacifica National Board, my work
hours at KPFA have been cut from a scheduled 11 per week to 6, a 45%
reduction that does not enable me to meet my monthly expenses. The cuts
also disrupt the process of the weekend news because most of the
cutting was done to my hours as the news tech. The news could use more
not fewer tech hours.



I wrote to the interim general manager who made the cuts asking him
several questions including whether other current membe… Continue

June 3, 2010—News Item from Fox News on May 28, 2010 by reporter Jana
Winter:

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“No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
-- John Donne, Meditation XVII

Self-sufficiency, a.k.a. self-reliance or rugged individualism, is one of the great fetishes of American culture. To the self-sufficiency fetishists, being able to take care of oneself and pay one's own way is the opposite side of the coin of freedom. Sacrifice self-suffici… Continue