‘Guerilla Drive-In’ Exposes Billionaire Koch Brothers’ Role in Destroying Middle Class, Crushing Workers
by Jon Melegrito | November 07, 2011
Sometimes, taking it to the streets armed with only popcorn and protest signs can be just as effective in getting your message across.
While the billionaire Koch brothers, avid funders of right-wing causes, feasted lavishly inside Washington DC’s convention center, more than 1,000 demonstrators gathered outside. They fed themselves mainly with popcorn and lemonade while listening to hip-hop and reggae music and watching a projector flash images of protests from around the country as well as films about the shady dealings of the Koch brothers.
The occasion was the Americans for Prosperity “Defending the American Dream” summit, where the Koch brothers and other GOP backers were wining and dining with the moneyed class. Organized by The Other 98% and Health Care for America Now!, the Occupy the Kochs: Guerilla Drive-In’s goal was to expose the corrosive role of corporate money in politics and the dangerous agenda of right wing organizations targetting America’s middle class.
Demonstrators also focused on the role the Koch brothers are playing in Ohio to strip public service workers of collective bargaining rights. In the last few weeks, the Koch brothers and other right wing organizations have done everything they can to block a grassroots effort in Ohio to repeal the corporate-backed anti-worker law (SB 5), which strips public service workers of collective bargaining rights.
The billionaire brothers founded Americans for Prosperity in 2004, with a corporate agenda “to take the unions out at the knees so they don’t have the resources to fight” the battle over collective bargaining rights. Back in February, AFP spent hundreds of thousands on radio and TV ads to support Gov. Scott Walker’s attempt to decimate his state’s public service unions and the middle class they helped build.
All across the country people are raising their voices in protest because they are fed up with a system stacked in favor of the richest 1 percent.
