Shame on Community Bank for Attacking the Middle Class - The Occupied New York Times, November 22, 2014

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SHAME ON

Community

Bank

For Attacking the Middle Class

Photo taken in Ithaca, NY on 11-22-2014 by Myra Kovary

Shame on Community Bank for contributing to the erosion of area standards for Central and Upstate New York carpenters.

The Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters believes that Community Bank has an obligation to the community they serve to see that area labor standards are met for construction work performed on their projects.

The Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters has a labor dispute with General Interior Systems, Inc. which is a contractor working on the new Community Bank in
DeWitt, New York

The Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters objects to substandard wage Employers like General Interior Systems, Inc. as they drive down carpenters' wages and decrease our ability to maintain our status as middle class Americans.

Please contact Bank President Mark Tryniski at 315-445-2282 and tell him that you want him to do all he can to change this situation.

We are not promoting any work stoppages or refusal to deliver ay goods or services.
Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters

Posted on November 22, 2014

by Myra Kovary

Editor-in-Chief

The OCCUPIED New York Times

Tompkins County Legislature Shows Contempt For Public

       In a hotly contested political decision to ignore public concern, the Tompkins County Legislature in the State of New York is moving to rubber-stamp the expansion of their local share of the ever-increasing Prison-Industrial-Complex in the US. Protesters have been railing against the plan for several months, but members of the Legislature haven't been all that interested in what they've had to say.

At the recent meeting featured in this short video (above), some members caught up on paperwork and others played with their cell phones while the public used their privilege of the floor to voice their concerns, facts & figures, their discontent, and at times, their distress.

Once the public's time had expired, Legislators took their turns, at times directly addressing the public. Some bravely admitted out loud that, "the Prison-Industrial-Complex" in this nation, "is an abomination," just before voting to expand it on the local level.

Smiling, as dozens of residents took the floor to speak out

Other members of the Legislature had the nerve to blame judges - administrators of code enforcement. This 'passing the buck' strategy did not work on the well educated public, who arrived knowing that it is the County Legislature who is the highest legislative body in the county - and that it is their jobs to legislate; not the police, not the judges'.

It is the legislative body, which writes legislation, setting governmental policies, including law enforcement.

Out of one side of some political mouths at the table, there were brave statements about how 'the drug laws are the problem' and how 'the drug war' is really responsible for our mass-incarceration problem as a nation. Out of the other side of those particular political mouths, came the claim that the Legislators had no power over legislation; a hard sell to such an educated crowd.

As the largest police-state (please click on link for the definition; language is very important) in human history continues to inflate itself beyond any previously conceived of boundaries, the people within this machine world of budgets & finance - rather than humanity & morality - continue to expand the already largest prison system on Earth.

Currently, the United States has monetized imprisonment so well, that at no point in history has any other nation incarcerated so many of its own people. In fact, the US is responsible for 25% of the entire planet's prisoners! If this figure is not shocking to you, you might just be a part of this fascist & authoritarian problem.

While over the past few decades the 'land of the free, home of the brave' has somehow become the 'land of the strip-searched, NSA slaves' - the aristocracy seems as oblivious to the plight of the people as ever before. While their country club memberships are still in good standing, real people are having real human problems. There's nearly no more 'cake' for the peasants to eat, while building contracts continue to be given for projects such as war, and local county jail expansions.

We do not have an economic crisis in America, today.
We have only, a crisis of consciousness; a crisis of priorities.

More on this story, as it develops.

Within 2 Yrs Most Americans Will Know the US Gov't Lied About 9/11

This link shows the BBC somehow report the collapse of WTC building 7 - BEFORE it happened! 
This one shows the 47 story skyscraper (not struck by a plane) implode in 7 seconds.

FRACK to the Future?

"These people can't drink the water that's coming out of their tap - here in America. That's a 3rd world thing... Their water is full of poison and it's full of gas... There are people in the audience, here tonight, that are victims of this." - Mark Ruffalo

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When Our Land & Water Are Under Attack, What Do We Do? STAND UP - FIGHT BACK!

Governor Andrew Cuomo may have personally profited from campaign money given to him by those who aim to exploit New York's resources at the reckless detriment of our land and water, but we will not comply with the poisoning of our people. We will fight back.

"We will stop every truck at the border and we will blockade every road into this state if we have to!"

There are over-dramatic, cartoons and comic book evil villain stories that look like our current reality regarding FRACKING (hydraulic fracturing for natural gas drilling). Giant energy companies are literally poisoning the land and water of our communities - for a financial profit. The documentary "Gasland" has brought the truth to light. The ever-growing stories of those who have already fallen prey to, and suffered the ramifications of dealing with these energy company super-villains are also helping to expose the dangerous truth about hydro-fracking.

Currently, the Town of Dryden is under legal attack by Anschutz, an energy company who holds drilling leases on properties throughout the town. The Town of Dryden, the hero of this story, has banned this poisonous industry in an effort to protect it's citizens, it's land and it's water.

Banning hydro-fracking state-wide however, will be the only way to protect New York State residents from these toxic drilling practices, as our air and our water are not confined by town borders. As long as we have a governor who has accepted campaign money from these toxic companies who aim to poison our land and our people for financial gains, we must be vigilant and without relent. We must be aware of who stands on the side of the people and who stands to exploit our great state, at the expense of our health and safety.
We must fight.

When our land and water are under attack, what do we do?
STAND UP - FIGHT BACK!

We have only just begun.
We will not allow profiteers or their puppet-politicians to poison our communities.
We Will Not Allow It.