New Yorkers are pushing to set up a public bank for New York City, which would invest locally and not feed the plutocrats.

A vision of an AI-managed cashless genocide of the non-rich, as a projection of what's already happening in the US and other countries.

One way to fight against this today is to insist on using cash. No cash, no deal!

The cladding that burnt in the Grenfell apartment building was approved based on fraudulent tests.

Two US senators demand that the FCC explain the fraudulent comments submitted in their names, and prevent such a thing from happening again.

The FCC received thousands of patently fake comments supporting the elimination of network neutrality, then pointed to them as valid.

When bicycle courier Jerome Rogers received a couple of traffic fines, his minuscule income meant he had no money to pay them. The system multiplied them by a factor of ten, his bicycle was seized. Rather than live destitute, he committed suicide.

None of the steps that crushed his life is unusual. When people have so little money that they can't cope with an emergency cost of $400, they will often be unable to pay fines. When the system escalates fines, they will turn into impossible debts. When the system handles those debts by crushing people, or by jailing them as often happens in the US, it becomes a steamroller that crushes people.

The law said the bailiff should not seize the bicycle, but it's not unusual for those who oppress the poor to ignore laws. Wage theft is illegal too, but employers regularly get away with it. Unless someone polices the bailiffs very carefully, they will always be under pressure to push the limits of oppression.

When poor people move from killing themselves to killing bailiffs, the bailiffs might back off some.