www.nationalnursesunited.org<\/a>. <\/p>\nThe Occupy LA events continue outside City Hall in downtown LA. Today (Thursday 10\/6) they will join the Refund California action called Make Banks Pay at 11:30 am at 350 S. Grand, at the California Plaza. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Senate Democrats have just announced a plan to add a 5% surtax on American millionaires to fund President Obama’s American Jobs Act. A surtax is an additional tax upon existing taxes. Obama’s proposal involved taxing those making $250,000 or more but Democratic Senators, saying there is less Congressional party support for it, are aiming at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Senate Democrats have just announced a plan to add a 5% surtax on American millionaires to fund President Obama’s American Jobs Act. A surtax is an additional tax upon existing taxes. Obama’s proposal involved taxing those making $250,000 or more but Democratic Senators, saying there is less Congressional party support for it, are aiming at higher incomes. According to the LA Times, “[t]he surtax would hit all forms of income, including capital gains.” Senator Majority leader Harry Reid says it could be voted on in the next few days. The proposal comes at a time when the so-called Occupy Wall Street movement calling for economic justice and decrying corporate greed, is spreading like wildfire across the country including here in Southern California: Los Angeles, Orange County, and Santa Barbara, where 8 protesters were apparently arrested yesterday. Groups are taking up the “Occupy” banner every day, applying it to their existing economic justice work, or starting new sit-ins in cities like Boston, Maine, Austin, New Orleans, New Jersey, and San Francisco, and leading media outlets to label it the “Tea Party of the Left.” In New York, the birthplace of the movement, the occupation continues in its third week. Over the past two weekends activists have been subjected to brutal and mass arrests by the NYPD. But, infused by the recent involvement of unions, the ranks of the occupation have swelled. There was a major demonstration yesterday, the largest yet of the three -week long occupation. <\/p>\n