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Act Out! [29] - Occupy the Senate, TPP free zones & our plastic lives

Act Out! [29] - Occupy the Senate, TPP free zones & our plastic lives
Wed, 9/16/2015 - by Eleanor Goldfield

This week, Margaret Flowers thinks it's about fucking time we got some more activists in the halls of the mighty – from occupying the streets to occupying Congress. Next up, here's how you can make your community an anti-corporate land of the free, PLUS rice paper against the TPP. And finally, let's google how NOT to be over-consuming plastic ass hats. But first, YOU ARE an activist.

This weeks links:

flowersforsenate.org

popularresistance.org

itsoureconomy.us 

flushthetpp.org 

occupy.com/donate

 

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