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Carl Gibson, 25, is co-founder of US Uncut, a nationwide creative direct-action movement that mobilized tens of thousands of activists against corporate tax avoidance and budget cuts in the months leading up to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Carl and other US Uncut activists are featured in the documentary "We're Not Broke," which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. He currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin. You can contact Carl at usuncut@gmail.com, and follow him on twitter at @uncutCG.

Blog Entries by Carl Gibson

Unite the Classes, March on the Lobbyists

(3) Comments | Posted May 23, 2013 | 12:09 PM

"You know how our government only listens to the lobbyists? Well, we're marching on the lobbyists."

I've spent most of this past week marching 150 miles from Philly to DC with unemployed workers and their families, called "Operation Green Jobs." Whenever we come across anyone who asks us why we're...

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Saving Our Economy With Public Banking

(5) Comments | Posted May 20, 2013 | 10:44 AM

Imagine if your only choice for food came from genetically-modified crops. You might suffer regular health problems, be at a higher risk for numerous crippling diseases, and have no choice but to accept that as a fact of life. But what if, one day, you came across a...

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Time to Abolish Left vs. Right

(27) Comments | Posted May 14, 2013 | 5:34 PM

Keeping our nation divided is an agenda supported by both Fox News and MSNBC. The media and the politicians both profit from Americans believing they should hate their fellow Americans. And oddly enough, the one thing that unites the traditional "right" and "left" in this country is our hatred for...

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Benghazi: The Shiny Object Distracting Us From Elizabeth Warren

(14) Comments | Posted May 10, 2013 | 11:00 AM

If you haven't yet seen Wag The Dog, go watch it right now. I'll wait. And don't worry, this article isn't actually about Benghazi, but something that actually matters.

The movie is about the art of how the media is manipulated to distract people from events of actual importance. It...

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A Simple, 4-Step Method to End Corporate Personhood

(1) Comments | Posted May 7, 2013 | 9:11 PM

f you knew you could end the concept of corporate personhood at the local level, and that everyone all over the country was doing it too, wouldn't you try it? All you need is $50 to $100 depending on what state you're in, a vehicle, and a carpool lane. A...

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Austerity: Planned Poverty

(2) Comments | Posted April 26, 2013 | 3:56 PM

If a math textbook that never underwent an official academic review and was proven to contain basic factual inaccuracies was nonetheless used to teach math by an entire school, wouldn't it be fair to say that all of that school's graduates were incapable of doing math? Wouldn't it make more...

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Carlos Arredondo, Boston and the World's Hero

(19) Comments | Posted April 17, 2013 | 1:15 AM

As men, we're taught not to cry. But the story of Carlos Arredondo made me cry. Carlos, a Costa Rican immigrant, became a naturalized American citizen not long after hearing of his son's death in Iraq. But after his heroic actions in the chaos of the...

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President Obama: One Corporate Puppet Among Many

(2) Comments | Posted April 15, 2013 | 2:02 AM

This year, the New Deal turned 80. And those same New Deal programs championed by FDR, a Democrat, defined the bedrock of the American left political achievements for all others who would seek the presidency. Now, the corporate takeover of our government has proven that those New Deal programs can...

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Close Corporate Tax Loopholes, Not Public Schools

(26) Comments | Posted March 29, 2013 | 4:15 PM

If you're in a canoe that's got a hole letting in water, do you throw the other passenger overboard who is helping you row, or do you just patch the hole and keep rowing?

Chicago public schools are facing a $1 billion deficit. The corporate media would like...

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Poor Folks Don't Care About the Stock Market Rally

(0) Comments | Posted March 29, 2013 | 2:57 PM

I fit in with the other 40 percent of Americans who really and truly don't give a fuck about the S&P 500 and Dow Jones both hitting all-time record highs this month. The rest of us who don't draw income taxed at a preferential...

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What Would Jesus Do? Jail the Bankers!

(3) Comments | Posted March 27, 2013 | 2:24 PM

Even though he's widely viewed as the most perfect human being to have ever walked the Earth, Jesus did commit one violent act during his time here. In the "Cleansing of the Temple," story, all four of the gospels talk about Jesus making a whip out of cords...

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Congress Protects Monsanto, Not Third Graders

(87) Comments | Posted March 26, 2013 | 2:27 PM

My 9 year-old niece Evelyn in Maryland is already very politically-active. Like most of America, she was saddened and outraged about the kids in Connecticut who were mowed down by a killer wielding an assault rifle with 30-round clips. She was especially horrified that the victims were her own age,...

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Open Letter to Mitch McConnell, From a Kentuckian

(42) Comments | Posted March 22, 2013 | 11:16 AM

Dear Sen. McConnell,

You are not a Kentuckian. In fact, your citizenship as a Kentuckian should be revoked, and you should be ineligible to run again for reelection.

Kentuckians live by the phrase, "United We Stand, Divided We Fall." It's emblazoned on our flag, and shows two men,...

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Patriarchy Dominates Media's Steubenville Coverage

(24) Comments | Posted March 20, 2013 | 10:57 AM

In an eerie bit of foreshadowing, a 2011 skit from The Onion's Sportsdome on Comedy Central predicted the Steubenville rape story almost to a T. In the satirical sports segment, done with emotional background music, reporters document the story of a student athlete who scored a record amount...

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Take Shelter From the Cuts on Tax Day

(0) Comments | Posted March 12, 2013 | 10:14 PM

Here's a pop quiz for Congress: If you cut food assistance for needy families by $333 million, and allow corporations to dodge $183 billion in federal taxes in the same year, how much did you end up reducing the deficit?

We just saw the first round...

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Abolish It and Replace It With What?

(3) Comments | Posted March 11, 2013 | 10:25 AM

Computers are made to work for us and do things we need done, and must be constantly updated to adjust to the constant stream of new data. But if you have a blown motherboard, it doesn't matter what software or programs you try to update, because the computer won't work...

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There's Hay in the Barn, But We're Not Feeding the Horses

(0) Comments | Posted March 5, 2013 | 3:02 PM

Back in the days when I used to be a legislative reporter for Mississippi's NPR affiliate, I was covering a story where Gov. Haley Barbour refused to stop cuts to mental health programs and schools in Mississippi with money from the rainy day fund. My favorite Southern legislator, Rep. Steve...

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Abolish It: It's Our Right

(18) Comments | Posted March 4, 2013 | 11:19 AM

It's obvious to anyone paying attention at this point that this current government doesn't give a damn about anyone who isn't buying influence in Washington. That's why they'll vote unanimously for giving the military hundreds of billions of dollars to maintain an imperial presence around the...

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Climate Activists Are Just Getting Warmed Up

(4) Comments | Posted February 28, 2013 | 4:28 PM

While we were in the midst of a sea of 40,000 to 50,000 people at the largest climate rally in U.S. history, I shouted call-and-response chants with two friends from Maryland, one of whom was riding on my shoulders to get a look at the size of the...

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Kick the Habit, Congress

(3) Comments | Posted February 25, 2013 | 4:25 PM

What if there was a really smart, knowledgeable, innovative guy who had dreams of curing cancer or writing a bestselling novel or recording an acclaimed album, but couldn't do any of the above because of a crippling cocaine addiction? Similarly, Congress' deadly addiction to corporate cash is the main reason...

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