#OccupyCanton

08/02/2020

Filmmakers Patrick Lovell and Eric Vaughn discuss the importance of highlighting the financial crisis of 2008 in their Docuseries 'The Con.' About Rising: Ri...

12/10/2019

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/02/america-record-job-growth-economics-wage-stagnation

High employment rates gloss over a ‘much more complicated story’ of stagnant wages and vanishing mid-level jobs

02/28/2017

If you agree, please call your House Rep.

House Bill 610 makes some large changes. Inform yourselves.
This bill will effectively start the school voucher system to be used by children ages 5-17, and starts the defunding process of public schools.
In addition the bill will eliminate the Elementary and Education Act of 1965, which is the nation's educational law and provides equal opportunity in education.
ESSA is a big comprehensive program that covers programs for struggling learners, AP classes, ESL classes, classes for minorities such as Native Americans, Rural Education, Education for the Homeless, School Safety (Gun-Free schools), Monitoring and Compliance and Federal Accountability Programs.
The Bill also abolishes the Nutritional Act of 2012 (No Hungry Kids Act) which provides nutritional standards in school breakfast and lunch.
Some things ESSA does for Children with Disabilities
-Ensures access to the general education curriculum.Ensures access to accommodations on assessments.
-Ensures concepts of Universal Design for Learning
-Includes provisions that require local education agencies to provide evidence-based
interventions in schools with consistently under-performing subgroups.
-Requires states in Title I plans to address how they will improve conditions for learning including reducing incidents of bullying and harassment in schools, overuse of discipline practices and reduce the use of aversive behavioral interventions (such as restraints and seclusion).
Please call your representative and ask him/her to vote NO on House Bill 610 (HR 610).
PLEASE copy and paste, don't just share. That limits it to friends we have in common. Thank you.

11/11/2016

Are people feeling like we need to rise again?

04/04/2013

Please take the time to fill this brief survey and share with whomever you wish.


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The purpose of this survey is to present up to date information on Hydraulic Fracturing (commonly referred to as Fracking) and to collect data on how Ohioans feel about this industrialization of the farms and cities that make up the State of Ohio. Your input will make a big difference to the fut...

09/27/2012

Solidarity Spain and Greece...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuRHshyT-yA&feature=player_embedded

07/29/2012

We have a HUGE Canton City Council vote coming up this Monday.(tomorrow 7-30-12) We NEED your help! We have a golden opportunity to draw the line in the sand at Canton Ohio. If we get the no votes tomorrow, Canton will not be able to request bids or lease city owned land to natural gas interests with the intent to FRACK or store the waste here. We need everyone we can get but especially those who live in or are from communities that buy water from Canton City. Call your council person if you can't make it.

http://cantonohio.gov/council/?pg=members

You can find your council ward and council person here.

Members of Canton City Council

07/28/2012

TIME TO STAND UP!!! LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD!!! DEMAND CLEAN WATER AND CLEAN AIR!!! YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT!!!

CANTON CITY COUNCIL MEETING
CITY HALL -- 218 CLEVELAND AVENUE SW
MONDAY, JULY 30, 2012
7:30 pm

TELL MAYOR HEALY THAT YOU DO NOT WANT CITY-OWNED LAND AND/OR PARKS LEASED FOR FRACKING.

ALLOWING BIDS TO BE CONSIDERED ONLY SAYS THAT OUR HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE IS OPEN TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER!!!

YOU CAN STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING!!!! LET YOUR COUNCIL PERSON AND MAYOR HEALY KNOW THAT YOU WILL NOT BE DISREGARDED!!!

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

President Theodore Roosevelt
Excerpt from the speech "Citizenship In A Republic"
delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910

07/15/2012

IMPORTANT!

GA on Monday, 7/16/12. We will meet in front of the Chesapeake Office (400 3rd Street SE, Canton) at 6pm PROMPTLY and march to the city council meeting immediately after.

06/11/2012

It appears as though our neighbors to the south know what democracy looks like as well. OCO visits Occupy Ciudad Mexico!