Occupy Talks: What Gravy Train? Austerity, Finance, and the Polarization of Wealth
Channel: Media Wrench
Date: 2012-02-17

Media Wrench Podcast for January 19th 2012

guest speakers focused appropriately enough on the systematic denial of workers' benefits through union busting, the systematic status quo of the business narrative, and the need to focus on long term goals, whilst celebrating the singular victories within sight. This talk takes place, literally, the day after Mayor Rob Ford's budget was rejected piece-by-piece due to trying to fix the problems of our community by taking more money from the poorest of society and children. Very little of what Mayor Ford had originally intended to cut from the budget actually survived the process of the budget meeting. And the visibly 'subversive' council member who had talked sense into his fellow city hall colleagues, Councillor Josh Colle, saw the necessity and urgency to step back and rethink the logic of Toronto's bizarre proposed taxes -- such as the $2 per head child-tax for children using small wading pools across Toronto. This is a major victory for all reasonably hopeful citizens!