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Union-Backed Occupiers on the March

Matthew Vadum

From today’s Front Page Magazine: Union-Backed Occupiers on the March By Matthew Vadum The sudden eviction of Occupy Wall Street squatters from lower Manhattan hasn’t dampened the enthusiasm of organized labor for their increasingly violent anarchist and neo-communist brethren. The occupiers now say they plan to shut down Wall Street on Nov. 17 and occupy the New York subway. One Occupy Wall Street supporter was captured on video saying radicals plan to “burn New York City to the ground.” The movement that has spread across America is what ACORN’s neo-communist founder Wade Rathke, a former SEIU boss, calls an “anti-banking … Continue reading Union-Backed Occupiers on the March

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Occupy Wall Street’s ACORN Rent-A-Mobs

Matthew Vadum

From today’s Front Page Magazine: Occupy Wall Street’s ACORN Rent-A-Mobs By Matthew Vadum Evidence suggests that ACORN, the Left’s premiere astro-turfing organization, has been paying people to participate in the Occupy Wall Street protests. Astro-turfing campaigns can generate big money, and ACORN’s lucrative protest-for-profit program is nothing new. As I note in my book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers, ACORN has acquired great expertise in manufacturing so-called grassroots protests. Left-wing loan sharks Herb and Marion Sandler, the founders of World Savings Bank, gave ACORN affiliates close to $11 million to manufacture … Continue reading Occupy Wall Street’s ACORN Rent-A-Mobs

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SEIU’s Stephen Lerner Leaks Plan to Terrorize Corporate Executives

Matthew Vadum

Radical labor organizer Stephen Lerner of SEIU intends to terrorize the families of bank executives in their homes. Lerner, a prime architect of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, said this to Marxists at the left-wing Take the American Dream Back conference in Washington, D.C., on October 3, 2011. Here’s the video: Like any good Alinskyite organizer Lerner poses as a mere liberal instead of as an anti-American radical. If Lerner gets his way, more labor and leftist-inspired violence and mayhem are on their way. * * * * * Americans need to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect … Continue reading SEIU’s Stephen Lerner Leaks Plan to Terrorize Corporate Executives

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Union Gangsters: Stephen Lerner

Matthew Vadum

From today’s Front Page Magazine: Union Gangsters: Stephen Lerner By Matthew Vadum Editor’s note: The following is the third installment of FrontPage’s new series, “Union Gangsters.” In this profile, award-winning investigative reporter Matthew Vadum unmasks economic terrorist Stephen Lerner. To read about union consigliere Craig Becker, click here. To read about Big Labor kingpin Richard Trumka, click here.] One of the boldest labor thugs in America today is Stephen Lerner, a crafty economic terrorist who manages to sound like a folksy self-improvement seminar leader while he explicitly calls for the overthrow of capitalism. “People are ready to move,” said Lerner, an organizer … Continue reading Union Gangsters: Stephen Lerner

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Does Obama support SEIU/ACORN-led economic terror campaign against JPMorgan Chase?

Matthew Vadum

Does President Obama approve of the SEIU/ACORN-led economic terrorism campaign that is now directed at JPMorgan Chase? It seems like a reasonable question to ask. SEIU is President Obama’s favorite union and ACORN is his favorite community organizing outfit. The campaign, engineered by SEIU board member Stephen Lerner, is designed, in Lerner’s words, “to disrupt and create uncertainty for capital, for how corporations operate … there are actually extraordinary things that we could do right now that would start to destabilize the folks that are in power and start to rebuild a movement.” According to White House visitor logs, “Stephen … Continue reading Does Obama support SEIU/ACORN-led economic terror campaign against JPMorgan Chase?

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Economic Terrorism’s Big Comeback

Matthew Vadum

(originally published at Front Page Magazine, a publication of David Horowitz Freedom Center) Economic Terrorism’s Big Comeback By Matthew Vadum Radical activist groups associated with President Barack Obama have launched a campaign of economic terrorism and sabotage – possibly with his blessing. Mortgage and student loan strikes, crippling bank boycotts, intimidation, and who knows what else are all on the agenda. The idea of leftists using terrorism to achieve political objectives isn’t new. Leon Trotsky supported the use of terrorism to advance so-called social justice. Decades before an ice-axe found its way into his skull, Trotsky argued in Dictatorship vs. Democracy that … Continue reading Economic Terrorism’s Big Comeback

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Economic Terrorism’s Big Comeback

Matthew Vadum

“Economic Terrorism’s Big Comeback” is the name of my latest piece at Front Page Magazine. Here’s the top of it: Radical activist groups associated with President Barack Obama have launched a campaign of economic terrorism and sabotage – possibly with his blessing. Mortgage and student loan strikes, crippling bank boycotts, intimidation, and who knows what else are all on the agenda. The idea of leftists using terrorism to achieve political objectives isn’t new. Leon Trotsky supported the use of terrorism to advance so-called social justice. Decades before an ice-axe found its way into his skull, Trotsky argued in Dictatorship vs. Democracy that Communists who reject … Continue reading Economic Terrorism’s Big Comeback