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Act out! Podcast 29 - Occupy the Senate, TPP free zones & our plastic lives

Act out! Podcast 29 - Occupy the Senate, TPP free zones & our plastic lives
Fri, 9/18/2015 - by Eleanor Goldfield
This article originally appeared on Occupy.com

Margaret Flowers is speaking up loudly, saying it's high time we got activists in the halls of the mighty and powerful – time to move from occupying the streets to occupying Congress. Then, here's how you can make your community an anti-corporate land of the free. Check out 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.

To see the slideshows that I mention in the episode, watch the episode online!

 

THIS WEEKS LINKS:

flowersforsenate.org
popularresistance.org
itsoureconomy.us
flushthetpp.org
occupy.com/donate

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