Hate Thy Neighbour: Inside US Neo-Nazi Cult

(True Lives) VICE investigates real white American racism

• List of American Neo-Nazi organizations

Nazi Hitler liked Jewish Zionism?

(History Hustle) What did Adolf Hitler think of Zionism, the plan to get Jews out of Europe and into the Middle East by genocide, ethnic cleansing of the ethnic Palestinian/Arab/Bedouin population.

(Disturban History) What happened to Hitler's relatives?

Why are American Nazis helping Zionist Israeli forces committing genocide in Gaza?

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• History Hustle; CJ Werleman, Aug. 14, 2025; Seth Auberon, Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Origins of Halloween (video)

The Roots of Hallowe’en: Is it possible to observe a pre-commercialized version?

Christopher Nyerges, PasadenaWeekly.com, 10/31/24 edited by Wisdom Quarterly

Written by ghost, author's late wife

Why has the day of All Hallows Eve — Hallowe’en — devolved into a day of fun and fear? How was this once-Holy Day commemorated before it was all commercialized into a sexy and scary night? Is it possible to discover the roots of this day and observe it in its original fashion today?

My circle of friends attempted to answer these questions. We determined that we’d need to dig up whatever historical facts [like Sir Frazer's The Golden Bough] we could find that show how this day was commemorated before the Year 1700, more or less.

• The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (retitled The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion in its second edition, gutenberg.org)

Also by the author: Wild Edible Plants of N. America

Though we couldn’t be 100% certain, we at least assumed that “commercialization” didn’t really exist in 1700. All of the European and some American commemorations before that year probably retained some semblance of what the day was originally all about. So, first, let’s begin with the day.

It is believed that the ancient Celts observed something called a “Samhain festival” toward the end of October. The World Book Encyclopedia states: “The Celts believed that the dead could walk among the living at this time.”

During Samhain (pronounced \sao-in\), the living could visit with the dead. Elements of the customs can be traced to a Druid ceremony in pre-Christian times.

The Celts had festivals for two major gods — a sun god and a god of the dead (called Samhain), whose festival was held on Nov. 1st, the beginning of the Celtic New Year.  More: The Roots of Hallowe’en

The Origins of Halloween

(All Time) Oct 26, 2024: ▼ VIDEO TIMESTAMPS ▼

The Origins of Halloween - 0:00, Halloween - 0:13, Samhain - 0:34, Pumpkins - 1:00, Jack-o'-Lanterns - 1:16, Stingy Jack O'Lantern - 1:20, Trick-or-Treating - 1:37, Souling - 1:40, Mischief Night - 2:34, Candy - 2:51, Costumes - 3:04, Masks - 3:21, Halloween Decorations - 3:45, Halloween Parties - 4:04, Bobbing for Apples - 4:22, The Witching Hour - 4:39, Séance - 4:56, Harry Houdini - 5:15, Haunted Houses - 5:43, Tombstones - 6:01, Candles - 6:23, Witches - 6:41, Ghosts - 6:57, Scarecrows - 7:11, Black Cats - 7:28, Bats - 7:52, Ouija Board - 8:05

(BuzzFeed Unsolved Network) The History of Halloween

Is it all the doing of disgruntled Christians?

Nazi Peckerwoods arrested in Los Angeles

Will a reelected Twittler become a new Hump?

HEADLINE: Southern California-based neo-Nazi group members federally indicted. Federal and local law enforcement officials announced court filings and arrests related to an organized crime ring in Los Angeles run by a neo-Nazi group affiliated with the Aryan Brotherhood.

U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada said that the bust being announced Wednesday [today, 10/2/24] morning is one of the largest takedowns in the history of the Department of Justice of a neo-Nazi, white supremacist, violent extremist organization.

A total of 68 people were indicted as part of the Peckerwood gang, Estrada confirmed. Of the 68, a total of 42 are in custody.

The Peckerwoods are involved in a wide variety of criminal activity, from drug trafficking to fraud offenses to firearms offenses, violence and identity theft, Estrada said. But what truly distinguishes them is their hate and animosity towards ethnic and religious minorities [like the Jews].

• 68 Southern California-based neo-Nazi group [gang] members federally indicted (KTLA)

Marjorie Taylor Greene, are you or Trump Peckers?

(What's a pecker-wood? An erect p*nis of a person seeking to commit racist hate crimes and be sent to prison to become the love object of older, bigger Aryan brothers and/or similar Neo-Nazis?).

More than 100 suspected Neo-Nazi "Peckerwood" gang members were rounded up for the Jewish New Year celebration of Rosh Hashanah in and around Los Angeles today. (Certainly, no one in law enforcement, many of whom are also racist gang members with tattoos to prove it had anything to do with the coincidence). There are large contingencies of Neo-Nazis living in LA, OC, and Ventura counties, longing to vote for Trump and make America great. Their MAG movement sometimes drives them to march on Washington and violently launch a Hitleresque "putsch" to seize power under their fearless leader's rambling rally speeches and the swinging body of a traitor on the gallows. But their plans were foiled. Not all hope is lost. Nick Fuentes and Friends on the Internet still support the Leader and his new push to seize leadership of the country from within [the Swamp] to remove inconvenient elections and find for him a lifetime appointment as dictator or overseer and kingmaker like Putin and strongmen around the world enjoy. Netanyahu and Kim (Israeli-occupied Palestine and North Korea) and other strongmen the world over are keeping their fingers crossed.

• White supremacist calling for the mass murder of Jews arrested in Reseda (SFV, Los Angeles) raid: Peckerwood racist
• I joined Neo-Nazi gang in jail then revealed that I'm Jewish

Peckerwood gang member opens up about serving a life sentence under California's three strike law

(THE CONNECT) Cinco de Mayo, 2024: There are Neo-Nazi white supremacist racist gangs in SoCal? Yes, not only in Los Angeles County but also in neighboring Ventura and Orange County. This documentary introduces the bound-for-prison gang affiliated with the Aryan Brotherhood. It is the smaller and oddly named phallic group of boys known as the Peckerwoods. A "pecker" in American slang is a [cartoon bird], and "wood" is a reference to [what the cartoon bird pecks], but it is not gay, not gay at all. Prison rules are different from the outside world, and what happens in jail stays in jail.

The Connect

(Full episode) Chris Curtis grew up in [once predominantly white] Orange County, California, in area rife with addiction and crime.

As a child [who should have enjoyed white privilege from a long history of institutional white supremacy] he was not protected from this reality and in fact was encouraged to be a part of it.

Struggling with addiction and turning to a life of crime, Curtis ended up getting sentenced to life in prison as a result of California's Three Strikes law. There he found himself in some of the most dangerous institutions in the state.

CHAPTERS

• 00:00:00 - Intro
• 00:01:41 - The Inception of Addiction at a Young Age
• 00:11:15 - Living in a Horrible Situation
• 00:15:33 - This Episode Is Sponsored By Perfect Jeans
• 00:17:30 - Transition into Criminal Activities
• 00:23:07 - Street Life: Stealing and Shooting
• 00:28:43 - Confrontation and Shootout
• 00:30:24 - [This episode is sponsored by MOOD]
• 00:31:45 - High Speed Chase and Arrest
• 00:39:48 - The California Three Strike Law
• 00:45:25 - Gang Violence and Racial Tensions
• 00:51:05 - Life in Prison and Gang Violence
• 00:56:28 - Life in Prison: Survival and Hustles
• 01:02:06 - Back to Selling Drugs and Evading Arrest
• 01:07:53 - High-Speed Chase and Felony Charges
• 01:13:15 - Life in Prison and Overcrowding
• 01:18:59 - Chaos and Violence in Selena's Valley
• 01:24:33 - Taking matters into my own hands
• 01:29:34 - The Violence and Chaos of Prison Life
• 01:34:48 - Gangs and Prison Violence
• 01:40:35 - The Impact of Victimhood on Others
• 01:46:15 - The Chaos and Struggles of Addiction in Prison
• 01:51:39 - Preparing for the Board
• 01:57:03 - Admitting to Everything
• 02:02:37 - Life After Prison
• 02:08:20 - A Dream Come True

He's on the show to talk about how he ended up getting out of prison with a life sentence, cleaning up and overcoming his addiction, and becoming a mentor of hope for kids just like he was.

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America's "Nazi Town, USA" (PBS video)

Hitler did it to us, so we get to do it to them.

(Encyclopedia Britannica) • The Catastrophe, Palestinian-Arabic Nakba, the systematic state-sponsored killing of countless of Muslim children, women, men and others by IDF militants armed and aided by the West and their collaborators during various wars and many battles of an ongoing genocide. The Knesset called this Zionist business as usual and all part of their “settler colonial project.” • Holocaust, Hebrew Shoʾah, Yiddish and Hebrew Ḥurban (“Destruction”), the systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. The Germans called this “the final solution to the Jewish question.”

The US did it to Indians, so we did it to our pests

The English word "holocaust" is derived from the ancient Greek holokauston, a translation of the Hebrew word ʿolah, meaning "a burnt sacrifice offered whole to [the Christian] God."

US, Vatican, Italy, Japan backed H

This word was chosen because in the manifestation of the Nazi program of expelling its unwelcome Jewish population and other undesirables (Gypsies, gays, the infirm, political prisoners, etc.) — prison labor and concentration camps — the corpses of victims of contagious diseases, overworking, harsh treatment, and bureaucratic neglect were disposed of in a sanitary manner.

First they were deloused using the insecticide Zyklon B, which was produced and sold to the German state by Heli. Then they were exploited by German auto industry giants like VW and BMW). Finally, the bodies of the deceased were placed whole in crematoria and open pyres to prevent the spread of disease and to cover up the extent of the abused casualties.

Nazi Town, USA | full doc | PBS American Experience

(American Experience | PBS) April 2, 2024: In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled New York's Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a [Trump-style] “Pro-American Rally.”

US modeled camps, Prescott Bush funded Hitler

Images of George Washington hung alongside swastikas, underlining the organizers' belief that German Nazism was entirely consistent with American ideals.

NAZI TOWN, USA tells the largely unknown story of the German American Bund, an organization of American Nazi sympathizers on U.S. soil.

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• PBS; Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

It's Winter Solstice or is Earth flat? (12/21)

Pat Macpherson, Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit; Eric Dubay

Solstice Sounds Event, Thursday, Dec 21, 2023 at 8:30 PM-1:00 AM (Kinship Yoga)

Newgrange is an ancient stupa (burial mound) the Buddha made famous from Central Asia

Newgrange Winter Solstice live stream 2023: How to watch (irishcentral.com)

We're all Neo-Pagans and modern Druids, man, and Stonehenge is our Mecca (wiki).

Forget Old Stonehenge. Let's go to Newgrange, Ireland each solstice and equinox (Njp finn).

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Winter also hits the mountains of Los Angeles

The winter solstice, also called the hibernal solstice (or the best time to hibernate), is said to occur when either of Earth's poles reaches its maximum tilt away from the local sun.

This happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere (Northern and Southern). For each hemisphere, the winter solstice is the day with the shortest period of daylight and longest night of the year, when the sun is at its lowest daily maximum elevation in the sky [7].

• Where's the best place to see it happen? Newgrange, Ireland
• Or maybe Adam's Calendar, Africa

Each polar region experiences continuous darkness or twilight around its winter solstice. This solstice occurs during the hemisphere's winter.

In the Northern Hemisphere, this is the December solstice (usually Dec. 21 or 22) and in the Southern Hemisphere, this is the June solstice (usually June 20 or 21).

Although the winter solstice itself lasts only a moment, the term also refers to the day on which it occurs.

Stonehenge was rearranged to what we see

The term midwinter (which would seem to mean "middle of the winter") is also used synonymously with the winter solstice, although it carries other meanings as well.

Traditionally, in many temperate regions, the winter solstice is seen as the middle of winter, though today in some countries and calendars it is seen as the beginning of winter.

Other names are the "extreme of winter" (Dongzhi) or the "shortest day." More: winter solstice

What if Earth is flat like Eric Dubay PROVES and Buddhist, Chirstian, Hindu cosmologies state?

"Proves"?! When did Eric Dubay (ericdubay.com) "prove" the earth was flat? - He gave 200 proofs that are yet to be debunked. But he's persona non grata and the whole topic is verboten.

• Eric Dubay banned on YouTube, available on BitChute
• Buddhist cosmology (many beings in countless worlds)

200 Proofs Earth is Not a Spinning Ball

Where do truth and inquiry go in a world of lies?

It's so bad that a government agency paid social media influencers on YouTube and elsewhere to make popular videos to "debunk" the rising flat earth movement. They can't deal with actual evidence presented by Dubay, so they go after strawmen and silly assumptions about what living on a flat disk would be like, never mind the evidence of their own senses and how water behaves and how engineers building railroad tracks and pilot flying planes treat the surface of this platform or plane. In fact, the debunkers do such a poor job that it remains a truism that the best way to become a flat earther is to try to debunk the actual evidence, the actual proof that we are not on a spinning ball of the dimensions claimed by popular science. (We might be on a much bigger ball with more continents; that's not impossible, but what's certain is that we are being lied to and deceived by NASA and ESA and other government entities. Why is anyone's guess. Let's stick to the proof. Why will no one deal with that?

• The Forbidden Archeologist Michael Cremo: "Modern humans" (Homo sapiens sapiens) are super ancient to the tune of about 300 million years old, out-of-place archeological artifacts show

The 31 Planes of Existence (we are reborn in)

It goes beyond the shape of the planet to the distance of things like our moon, the cause of eclipses (which in Buddhist, Vedic, Hindu, and Jain cosmologies is due to another planetary body called Rahu), the age of things as well as the shape of space and our multiverse (that are plentiful and globular like bubbles in space), with cosmic time being measured in kalpas or aeons, a great aeon (mahakalpa) being, according to the Buddha, the length of time it would take for an unbroken piece of granite, one mile high and one mile long, to be ground down and eroded away if a bird came once a year and brushed its beak on it while holding a fine muslin cloth. Sooner would that block of perfect granite be worn away, and still a kalpa would not have elapsed. It's staggering. In that length of time many things can happen, as things evolve, devolve, become chaotic, repeat. This is the universe we live in, which is quite like the other universes or world systems (cakkavalas) within them.

What about “science”? Let's do science, proposing a thesis and advancing evidence

(Eric Dubay) Quoting Terra Firma by David Wardlaw Scott, “The system of the Universe, as taught by Modern Astronomers, being founded entirely on theory, for the truth of which they are unable to advance one single real proof, they have entrenched themselves in a conspiracy of silence, and decline to answer any objections which may be made to their hypotheses…

Spiritual Science (Eric Dubay)

“Copernicus himself, who revived the theory of the heathen philosopher Pythagoras, and his great exponent Sir Isaac Newton, confessed that their system of a revolving Earth was only a possibility, and could not be proved by facts.

“It is only their followers who have decorated it with the name of an ‘exact science,’ yea, according to them, ‘the most exact of all the sciences.’

“Yet one Astronomer Royal for England once said, speaking of the motion of the whole Solar system: ‘The matter is left in a most delightful state of uncertainty, and I shall be very glad if any one can help me out of it.’

“What a very sad position for an ‘exact science’ to be in is this!” More

But I don't want the earth to be flat! I don't want to fall off!

Face of fear from the Carnival of Souls (wiki)

Then, in your mind, let it be the way someone else explained it to you. Whatever shape it is, we are not falling off. (What would be the source of gravity pulling us down off the plane into space below be?) Doesn't everybody want the Truth, the reality, the knowing-and-seeing of things as they actually are (objectively if possible or knowledge that all we'll ever get is subjective)? We prefer Truth with a capital t, wisdom, knowing, holding onto kindness and compassion. The combination is the way to awakening (bodhi).

Thank you, Eric Dubay, for standing up to the powers-that-be with a dissenting opinion and PROOF for it.  That's the ultimate thing. The rest of the world can put their faith in NASA and the CIA and newspapers like the USSR's Pravda.

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  What the Buddha Taught

  Would the Buddha bother with the shape of the world? It's not related to our enlightenment, so it's not crucial or worth spending too much time on. What is the origin of the sea? Is the universe (multiverse) finite or infinite? Is it the same person who is reborn or a different one? How will this karma (action) work itself out in terms of karmic-results? These are imponderable questions not conducive to enlightenment, so set them aside. Some questions conduce to awakening, some do not. Which ones do? What is dukkha, its cause, its end, the way to its end? Those are wise questions that do lead to awakening. Pursue those.

Pagan Pride Day/Harvest Festival (10/6)

PaganPrideLA.org; Crystal Quintero, Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Pagan Pride Los Angeles/Orange County chapter invites all to enjoy Pagan Pride Day on Sunday, October 6th, 2019, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, FREE at the Rainbow Lagoon in Long Beach (when and where).

Bring as much dry food to donate for this year's charity drive. The Harvest Festival that coincides with this event is about reaping AND sharing! Let's shatter past records.

• Facebook
• Twitter
• PPLA volunteering
• Southland Pagan Press, PPLA/OC's newsletter, blog
• Become a Patron (starts at $1 a month)
• Vendor applications
• Becoming a sponsor

The sexy origins of May Day

Ashley Wells, Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly based on theholidayspot.com

A fire festival would be fun, reading the Fire Sutra and carrying torches (Occupy Beltane).

Retro May Day: Beltane celebrations at Edinburgh Fire Festival (A Druid Way)

May Day: Russian Pagan rituals and Christian customs (russianfoods.com)

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Mini Pagabu shrine (sycalaelen)

May Day is not a big holiday in the United States. But it has a long and notable history as one of the world's principal festivals.

The origin of May Day as a time for celebration dates back to when...

It was before Christ, and like so many of our popular celebrations, it has a Pagan connection.

Pagans

The Druids of the British Isles saw May 1st was the second most important holiday of the year.

It was when the Festival of Beltane was held, when the day divides the year in half.

The other half would culminate in Samhain, November 1st. May Day custom was to set a new fire, an ancient New Year rite performed throughout the world.

(blog.stonehenge-stone-circle-co.uk)

The fire itself was thought to lend life to the burgeoning springtime sun.

Cattle were driven through the fire to purify them. Men and their sweethearts passed through the smoke for good luck.
 

The Powderkegs morris men brave cold to dance at May Day dawn (dailymail.co.uk)

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Romans

Pagan May Day festival (examiner.com)

The beginning of May was a very popular feast time for the Romans, who invaded and occupied the British Isles.

It was devoted primarily to the worship of Flora, the Goddess of Flowers. The festival ran from April 28 to May 2.

The Romans brought in Floralia rituals, and they were gradually added to those of Beltane. Many of today's May Day customs are similar to those combined traditions.

Puritans

Pagan calendar (paganarch.com)

May Day was discouraged during the time of the Puritans.

But it was revived when the Puritans lost power in England, though it was less robust than before.

Gradually, it came to be regarded as a day of joy and merriment for children rather than ancient fertility rites.
 

May Day protest or Maypole dance? Keep it down. We don't the riot squad in!

• PHOTOS: April showers turn into "May Day" flowers in UK (Daily Mail)

The new May Day

l.gaylord@m.cc.utah.edu via flag.blackened.net edited by Wisdom Quarterly

Beltane Fire Society celebrate summer, Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland (dailymail.co.uk)

Sit-ins, demonstrations, May Day strikes, activism, resistance (struggle.ws)

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May 1st is now International Workers' Day.

It commemorates the struggle of working people throughout the world and is recognized in every country except the U.S., Canada, and South Africa.

But the holiday began in the U.S. in the 1880s with the fight for an 8-hour work day.

 

In 1884, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions passed a resolution that 8 hours would constitute a legal day's work beginning May 1st, 1886.

The resolution called for a general strike to achieve. The legislative route had already failed. Workers were being forced to work 10, 12, and 14 hours a day.

So support for the 8-hour movement grew quickly. But there was indifference and hostility from many union leaders. By April 1886 250,000 workers were involved in the May Day movement centered in Chicago.

 

The heart of the movement was organized primarily by the anarchist Int'l Working People's Association. This terrified businesses and the state. As they prepared to put down the movement, it took on an increasingly revolutionary character. 

Police and militia were increased and received weapons financed by local business leaders. Chicago's Commercial Club purchased a very expensive machine gun for the Illinois National Guard to be used against strikers. More 

Workers of the world, awaken!

Rise in all your splendid might

Take the wealth that you are making,

It belongs to you by right.

No one will for bread be crying

We'll have freedom, love, and health

When the grand red flag is flying

In the Workers' Commonwealth. - Joe Hill

 

More Maypoles

May Day around the Maypole, strong phallic rod, symbol, center of our dance, as streamers gush from up top and girls in their spring best take hold (gemmasjourneyoflove).

May Day became the United States' International Workers' Day (happygourmand)

Will the lowly worker-soldiers rise up? US troops perform Pagan rituals at Forward Operating Base Wilson in Zhari Province, Afghanistan (Ben Gilbert/GlobalPost/worldtruth.tv)

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By the Middle Ages every English village had its own Maypole. 

Bringing the Maypole from the woods was a great occasion accompanied by much rejoicing and merrymaking.

Maypoles came in all sizes. And villages would vie with one another to show which could produce the tallest.

Maypoles were usually set up for the day in small towns, but in larger towns and in London they were erected permanently.

 

Maypole: Beltaine, now May Day, in Europe in the US is Int'l Workers' Day (happygourmand)

 

The Maypole tradition suffered a setback for decades when the Puritan Long Parliament stopped it in 1644.

However, with the return of the Stuarts, the Maypole reappeared and the festivities of May Day were again enjoyed.

One of the changes brought about by the Reformation was an attempt to do away with practices that were obviously of Pagan origin.

 

Although they succeeded, the Maypole or May Tree with most of the other associated traditions still survived. In France it merely changed names. Elsewhere, the May Tree became the "Tree of Liberty" and was regarded as the symbol of the French Revolution.

Despite the new name, the celebrants treated the tree like a traditional Maypole. They danced around it the same way as their forefathers and mothers.
 
Trees

Trees are linked to celebrations back as far as ancient New Year rites.

The association of trees came riding on the back of the Spring Festival in ancient Europe.

Trees have always been a symbol of the great vitality and fertility of nature and were used in spring festivals of antiquity.

May Day: first snake's head fritillary's bloom, North Meadow, Cricklade, Wiltshire (dailymail)

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Anthropologist E. O. James finds a strong relationship between ancient tree-related traditions of the British and Romans. According to James' description, as a part of May Day celebrations youths in Europe cut down a tree, lopped off most of the branches leaving a few at the top.

They then wrapped it with violets like the figure of the ancient Roman god Attis. At sunrise, they used to take it back to their villages blowing horns and flutes.

Similarly, the sacred pine representing Attis was carried in procession to the temple of Cybele on Rome's Palatine Hill during the Spring Festival of March 22nd.
 

Roots in America

Christian Puritans in U.S. (haikudeck.com)

The Puritans in the U.S. frowned on May Day, so the day has never been celebrated with as much enthusiasm as in Great Britain.

But the tradition of celebrating by dancing and singing around the Maypole, decorated with colorful streamers or ribbons, survived as a part of the English tradition. 

Children celebrating the day by moving back and forth around the pole, choosing a May Queen, and hanging May baskets on doorknobs are all leftovers of old European traditions.

May Day US

mayday.us

Our democracy has been hijacked by a handful of uber-wealthy corporations and families. The framers of our constitution envisioned a democracy that was representative of us all.

 

It now costs millions to get and stay elected. That means representatives are indebted to large donors to fund their elections.

 

There's a solution! Simple legislation that maximizes small donor contributions by matching them 6:1. This has been proven to nullify the corruption of big money on our political system. More

May Day today at the Beltane Fire Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland (oggiviaggi.it)