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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Aug. 31, Million Mask
Flyer Handout, Boston Common, 1:00pm</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This even is a lead up to the Million Mask March in NYC,
11/5</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/673907846024313/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming">https://www.facebook.com/events/673907846024313/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Sept. 9, MA
Democratic Gubernatorial Primary, </b>see editorial below.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Sept. 17, OWS
Anniversary <a href="http://occuevolve.com/">http://occuevolve.com/</a></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Sept. 21, Climate
March, NYC: <a href="http://peoplesclimate.org/march/">http://peoplesclimate.org/march/</a></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">If you have comments,
please post them here: <a href="http://www.occupyboston.org/">http://www.occupyboston.org/</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i>after Sept. 1.</i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Electoral Occupy?</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Editorial</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">More than most mass movements Occupy was and is riven by the
question of whether to participate in electoral politics. Some of the opponents of voting offer
arguments that seem to say that voting is a kind of contagion, as if questions
of strategy come down to what makes you feel or not feel dirty. Sounds silly,
unless you believe in the Gaia principle, but sticking with standard political
reasoning for a minute:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Questions of electoral political strategy are less acute
here in Massachusetts, the belly of the health insurance beast (Sorry, Connecticut)
where a solid Democratic base makes the specter of spoiler candidates less
scary. Â This is probably why the Green
Party has had some success. Â Here are
their candidates:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Green party candidates…. <a href="http://www.green-rainbow.org/">http://www.green-rainbow.org/</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nonetheless, what voting does do is take the attention away
from the real problem, which is, as usual, the system itself. It is not voting
per se that is the problem rather it is the winner take all electoral system which
like for profit healthcare doesn’t belong in a civilized world. We should
follow older wiser Europe and institute proportional representation, instant
runoff voting and nationalize the health insurance industry.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Short of succeeding from the union and creating bioregion
states this is not a problem that can be solved by DIY, disintermediation, or
goat farms. So if you want to change the
system volunteer with these folks:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.fairvote.org/">http://www.fairvote.org/</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>But Who Should I Vote
For?</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This gubernatorial primary get out the vote calls have
begun. The state employee labor unions are shilling for the candidate they
assume will be their new boss. The winner guarantees their contracts, they get
out the vote, the health insurance companies are assured of fat & excellent
union health insurance fees. The two left of liberal liberals swing at each
other. Â One of those candidates has made
a simple declaration in favor of single payer healthcare. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Don Berwick: <span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">It is time
to find a way to get to yes on a single payer system in Massachusetts. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Â The other two are
offer:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Martha Coakly: <span style="color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background:rgb(232,233,233)">Continue to bring down the cost of healthcare and energy</span><span style="color:black;background:rgb(232,233,233)">.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Charlie Baker:<strong><span style="font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(65,65,66);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;font-weight:normal;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> </span></strong><span style="color:rgb(65,65,66);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">MASSACHUSETTS SOLUTIONS FOR
MARKET-BASED REFORM</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Like the financial sector and the cheat on your taxes
industry, the health care industry plays a key role in keeping the 1% in
power. The fact that does so by sucking the
life blood out of those it purports to help while making a mockery of Christ
the Healer, well, such is life in America.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Drugs</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We could all follow Walter White’s example and when the
health insurance companies have us in their death grip, go over to the dark
side, create more death, more sickness. But we have pharmaceutical companies
for that---wouldn’t it make more sense to nationalize the drug trade and use
the profits to fund a healthcare system? If drugs, like cannabis, really are only
being used for medicinal purposes (LMAO), don’t they belong under the purview
of a nationalized healthcare system? Wouldn’t we all feel a little safer if
some entity under at least nominal democratic control were in charge of the
drugs, as opposed to Gus, Walt, Mike and Jesse? Or we could just wait until
countries like Uruguay have us by our drug addict short hairs.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But I digress. The moment has come.  This editorialist is with brother Malcolm, “By
any means necessary.â€</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Vote.</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The struggle for universal healthcare coverage has been
waged incrementally and electorally. Generations of liberals have slowly
increased the health insurance companies’ market share by creating a system of
fee-based rationing the complexity of which is rivaled only by Title 26, the 17
volume federal tax code. Nobody understands either one and yet participation in
both is mandatory. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Stop the Bleeding</b>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If Don Berwick even hints that he can stop funding the
health insurance companies he deserves a chance.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Vote for Don Berwick and the Green party candidates. If you
feel kind of sick afterwards, wash your hands. It’s the right thing to do.</p>
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<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div>"Our goal is a society that prioritizes the needs of all before the profits of the few." passed by Occupy Boston General Assembly 11/29/11</div></div>