Kiefer Sutherland is well known for being an actor, but he is also the grandson of the founder of the New Democratic Party (NDP) of Canada. The NDP was formed because Canadians were sick of two parties that pretended to be different but in reality governed the same to the detriment of the 99%. (sound familiar?) Just as the NDP grew to replace the Liberal Party of Canada so we can replace the Democratic Party of the United States if we are willing, as the Green Party says, to vote our hopes and not our fears.

Recently both the House of Representatives and the Senate passed HR 347 or the Anti-Occupy Law described here. Anybody who completed an eighth grade civics class should know this clearly violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. And yet it passed the Senate unanimously. Only three republicans in the House - true conservatives who remember life before neocons - voted against it.

Wikileaks and refusal to follow the law by providing Freedom of Information requests under the FOI Act prove the US is spying on grassroot activists like us, international corporate conspiracies involving death of third world citizens, people posing as mainstream journalists passing false and misleading information according to government/corporate wishes, and inside trader schemes with Goldman Sachs. Even worse, both the democrats and republicans are trying to do it under a cloak of secrecy while the mainstream media turns away.

The most successful organizations for economic self-help of the last hundred fifty years have been labor unions, and in the US, African Americans have been more likely to form and join unions than any other group. So when President Obama imposed new restrictions on organizing unions, and make it easier for companies to dismiss and disregard union contracts he struck a blow first and hardest against black collective action for economic security.

At the bottom of the article Democratic Party Burns is a funny animation summarizing what many of us feel about the Uniparty and mindless resistance to third parties. (It has "colorful language" at the end.)