Life Fast seeks to inform the public about many pressing issues as we build a public consensus around the interests of our society as a whole. During the 40 day fast, all locations will become open forums where we can come together to see films, hear well informed talks and hold open forum discussions with experts. The ultimate goal of Life Fast is to help create an alert and knowledgeable voting citizenry.
Oil Addiction:
Tar Sands Mining Equipment - NOT photoshopped
Here is a great playlist of the best videos on youtube about the coming end of cheap oil and the dangers of the new technologies like the Tar Sands and fracking:
Click here to see 33 of the best short videos on Oil Addiction
Click here for the Guardian's Oil Blog
From the blog:
"But the truly global implications of the International Energy Agency's flagship report for 2012 lie elsewhere, in the quietly devastating statement that no more than one-third of already proven reserves of fossil fuels can be burned by 2050 if the world is to prevent global warming exceeding the danger point of 2C.
This means nothing less than leaving most of the world's coal, oil and gas in the ground or facing a destabilized climate, with its supercharged heatwaves, floods and storms."
Financial Predation:
The bottom 80% of Americans own 7% of total US financial wealth. The number of Americans living below the poverty line has risen to 46 million.
Economic Policy Institute just completed it's "State of Working America" report, 13th edition.
It finds " The median household lost wealth between 1983 and 2010 and had just $57,000 in net worth in 2010, rather than the $119,000 it would have had if wealth had grown equally across all households over this period."
Click here to read more
Click here to see the best videos on US wealth inequality
Some telling charts on the state of wealth inequality:
When Reagan yanked the top tax rate, with the largest tax cut in US history and deregulated, he promised a rising tide would float all boats.
We have the luxury of hindsight today. Did the boats of the middle class float, or were their wages so low the working class asks, 'What boats?"
Incomes did not rise as promised.
The top 20% saw their incomes rise 300%.
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