David Swanson is the host of Talk Nation Radio, author and prominent anti-military activist.

http://davidswanson.org/

Bruce Gagnon is the chair of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.

http://www.space4peace.org/

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SQUATTER, ZURICH

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Reese Erlich is an international reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio, CBS Radio, Marketplace Radio, National Public Radio, and Global Post.  His latest book: "Conversations with Terrorists: Middle East Leaders on Politics, Violence, and Empire" with Noam Chomsky and Baer Robert is published by Polipont Press. 

http://reeseerlich.com/

Craig Graham is a former Political and Security analyst for the Canadian Government. He founded Global Conflict Analysis to explain the roots of geopolitical conflict worldwide.

http://globalconflictanalysis.com/

This week on Air Occupy, listen in on www.GoliathRadio.com as we interview Dennis Bonilla, Randy Cook, and Rusty Olsen, three employees of the U.S. Postal Service, about an upcoming national event to draw attention to the far-reaching effects of cutting postal service from 6 days to 5. Locally, the event for Daytona Beach will be held this coming Sunday, March 24, at 1 p.m. at the Post Office at 500 Bill France Blvd. Hope to see you there! If you live somewhere else, you can find your own local event here:http://action.deliveringforamerica.com/page/event/search_simple

Why is this important? At a time when 25 states have just reported higher unemployment, years into an incredibly steep recession with a national unemployment rate that hovers near the 10% mark if you include those who have fallen off the unemployment rolls entirely, who remain unemployed but now uncounted as such – and near 15% if you count underemployed – the U.S. Postmaster General, out of the blue, proposed cutting postal service from 6 days to 5 – a move that would cost an estimated 80,000 jobs. 

In 2011, the Postmaster General reported to Congress that the Post Office was on its last breath – in danger of eminent collapse. Mainstream media largely picked up the talking points with alacrity, neglecting to mention that the fiscal crisis was entirely created by a 2006 law requiring the agency to fund 75 years of retiree health benefits over a 10 year span – far in excess of standard practice and something no other agency or business is required to do. On the back of this overhyped created crisis, the PMG proposed the elimination of 120,000 workers and reduced retirement benefits for the rest, in addition to closing several thousand facilities and scaling back deliveries. It went unmentioned by mainstream media that without this fallacious requirement, the postal service actually would have turned a profit. Democracy Now equated the proposal with shock doctrine austerity – manufacturing an economic crisis in order to sell off public assets to private entities. As Esquire asked in its comprehensive article from January of this year, do we really want to live without the post office?