Occupy Everywhere: Michael Moore, Naomi Klein on Next Steps for the Movement Against Corporate Power

• Washington refuses to end the disastrous Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. In fact, Washington is greatly expanding the War in Afghanistan. Billions of dollars that could be used to fund Universal Healthcare are being thrown down a rat hole.

• Washington refuses to support the Global Warming Treaty.

• Washington refuses to support the treaty to ban the use of Land Mines.

• Washington refuses to support the treaty to ban the use of Cluster Bombs.

• America is one of 2 countries in the world who refuses to support the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Declaration sets out the individual and collective rights of indigenous peoples, as well as their rights to culture, identity, language, employment, health, education and other issues.

• Washington refuses to stop being the largest arms merchant in the world.

• Washington wants to place nuclear arms in space, further endangering the world.

• America has covert operations in 75 countries which are undermining World peace.

• Washington's view of a global economy is widening the gap between the haves and the have nots.

• Washington is one of only seven countries in the World who refuses to sign the Treaty for the Rights of Women - CEDAW. This treaty is the world’s most complete international agreement on basic human rights for women.

• The U.S. is one of only two countries who have not ratified the  Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).

• The United States refuses to become a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

• The U.S. has failed to ratify many of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Conventions.

• The U.S. has not ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). This multilateral treaty was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 16, 1966, and in force from January 3, 1976. It commits its parties to work toward the granting of economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR) to individuals, including labour rights and rights to health, education, and an adequate standard of living. As of December, 2008, the Covenant had 160 parties.

• The U.S. has not ratified the UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, or the Migrant Workers’ Convention (MWC). This is an international treaty adopted by the United Nations in 1990 protecting the rights of migrant workers and their family members.
• Over the years America has openly supported some of the most ruthless dictators the world has ever known bringing reins of fear and death in the millions. Friendly Dictators - Another List
• The nation’s workers may be struggling, but American companies just had their best quarter ever.
• The military of the United States is deployed in more than 150 countries around the world, with more than 369,000 of its 1,479,551 active-duty personnel serving outside the United States and its territories.

Wikileaks: Many at Guantanamo 'not dangerous'

An essay by Thomas Daly

It has become evident that out Life, our Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness have been jeopardized beyond endurance by the willful acts of a political elite which has betrayed our Common Welfare, the Promise of the Constitution, and the Meaning of America.

Although ever posing as the country's – and the people's – central but divergent legislative forum, Congress and the Senate have long been deceptively converted into a distant, tightly guarded conclave, wholly dedicated to its own perpetual incumbency as a despotic national directorate; a ruling aristocracy, embracing none but indoctrinated and pre-indentured Republicans and Democrats.

Central to their power is the unrestrained capacity to surreptitiously bleed-off, and confiscate an ever larger measure of productive people's earnings and thus abridge their right to acquire property and the validly of unencumbered private ownership.

Today it is the flagrant encroachment upon the people's constituted rights that reveals a design to reduce the populace into divided, non-cohesive clusters of politically muzzled factions, stripped of common will.

The People's given right to freely choose their representatives has been artfully debased. Vast streams of clouded money - hundreds of millions annually – soiled by pandering and graft determine who will run and who will not, who is to be supported and who is not. Party labels notwithstanding, money is then laundered into the campaigns of those deemed to have honed the slickest tongues with which to bedazzle an already stupefied electorate. Those perceived to pose a threat to the common goals and welfare of Congress as a two-faced ruling dynasty need not apply.

Because the average citizen is no longer able to buy into the high stakes game, We, the People, have become the fodder on which politicians feed.

Primary elections have come to be a mocking ruse which limits ballot entry to highly-financed, consummate political practitioners, all party loyalists. Candidates for Congress and the Senate with few exceptions, are predisposed by money-raking party overlords and their wide ranging cohorts. Voter opinion is deemed disruptive, a menace to the system, and has effectively been rendered impotent. The electorate, as such, has been goaded into political captivity where it is still allowed to vote in general elections – but only as to the cut and color of the uniforms the guards will wear.