US Uncut: Targeting Corporate Tax Dodgers - Day of Action, February 26th

[OneGrassRoot]

I heard about them recently; Naomi Klein mentioned US Uncut in her interview with Chris Hayes yesterday, talking about why the protests in Wisconsin matter:

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/chris-hayes-and-naomi-klein-explain-why-pr

It's just getting started here in the US; it's modeled after UK Uncut. It's grassroots action against corporations who avoid taxes while the average citizen suffers as cutbacks are implemented for budgetary reasons.

Check it out:

About US Uncut: http://www.usuncut.org/about

US Uncut is a response to this article by Johann Hari in the Nation, entitled How To Build a Progressive Tea Party. In it, he describes the recent success of British organisation UK Uncut, which has gone from a conversation in a pub to a high profile nationwide protest movement in only a few months.

US Uncut will learn from their model and try to replicate their success. On February 26th we are holding the first international day of Uncut action, along with UK Uncut.

We believe that cuts to public services are unnecessary and unjust. In Britain, UK Uncut went after high-profile corporate tax avoiders to highlight the fact that, if big business didn't dodge billions of dollars of tax, we could pay for the all the services slated to be cut.

US Uncut is a horizontal movement. There are no centrally planned protests. If you want one in your town or city, you'll have to take it on yourself. Read our blog about how to organise an action and visit our action centre to list it.

Also remember to visit UK Uncut for some inspiration.

See you on the high streets

[xchrom]

1. Awesome! Nt

[drm604]

2. Thank you for posting this.

:kick:

[PA Democrat]

3. Looks like a good idea.

I have a few nominations for corporations to target:

Goldman Sachs http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/12/17/goldman-tax/
Bank of America
Citigroup
Exxon Mobile
GE http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/16/news/companies/ge_7000_tax_returns/index.htm
Merck http://anewmerckreviewed.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/excellent-bloomberg-analysis-of-the-legacy-schering-ploughnew-merck-tax-avoidance-contortions/
Chevron
Morgan Stanley

More here:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Offshore_tax_havens_of_US_corporate_0116.html

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The culprits include some corporate giants who are receiving countless millions in bailout money, Leonnig notes.

Democratic Sens. Byron Dorgan and Carl Levin, who released the report, say that companies such as Citigroup and Morgan Stanley have set up "hundreds of tax haven subsidiaries" in such inconspicuous nations as Luxembourg, Mauritius and the Cayman Islands.

Others figuring prominently in the corporate tax-haven list are such varied firms as 3M, American Express, Caterpillar, Cisco, ConocoPhillips, Dell, Dow Chemical, Exxon Mobil, FedEx, GM, Kraft, Merck, Pepsi, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Wachovia, and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which tallied a whopping 782 foreign subsidiaries in 14 countries.

Among the federal contractors listed are Boeing, General Electric, Goodyear, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, IBM, ITT, Motorola, Oracle, and Xerox.

[OneGrassRoot]

5. Awesome. Thanks! :) n/t

[malaise]

4. K & R

Time to lock up the corporate tax evaders

[PA Democrat]

6. Kick

[OneGrassRoot]

7. kick n/t

[grahamhgreen]

8. K&R!!!