Global Marijuana March

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Mexico City. May 4, 2019. See: Source. [1].
Cape Town, South Africa. May 5, 2018. See source, with more photos.
Sao Paulo, Brazil. May 26, 2018. See source. Part of "Green May" (many cities) [2][3][4] in Brazil. See another 2018 photo. See video showing massive crowd (from 1 minute on, especially the time lapse video).
Sao Paulo, Brazil. May 6, 2017. See source.
Cape Town, South Africa. May 7, 2016. See source.
Athens, Greece. May 9, 2015. See source, and more photos.
Medellin, Colombia. May 3, 2014. See source. See more photos: 2013 May 4. Also: 2011 May 7. (b, c.)
Buenos Aires, Argentina. May 3, 2014. See source. [5]. See also: 2012 May 5 photo.
Buenos Aires, Argentina. May 4, 2013. See source. [6]. See street-level crowd shot.
Medellin, Colombia. May 5, 2012. See more photos: a, b, c.
Sao Paulo, Brazil. May 19, 2012. See another photo.
Toronto, Canada. May 2, 2009.
Toronto, Canada. May 6, 2006.
May 8, 2004 in Madrid, Spain. Million Joint March (La Marcha del Millón de Porros en Madrid, Mayo 2004). See source. [7]. For more info and photos: [8][9][10].
May 4, 2002 in Paris, France in front of the Hotel de Ville. See a source. [11].

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The Global Marijuana March (GMM) is an annual rally held at different locations across the planet. It refers to cannabis-related events that occur on the first Saturday in May, or thereabouts, and may include marches, meetings, rallies, raves, concerts, festivals and information tables. See also 4/20 events. See main GMM Facebook pages. GMM city lists and maps: ~ 1999. 2000. 1.2.3.4.5. 6.7.8.9. 2010. 11.12.13.14.15. 16.17.18.19.20. 21.22. The Global Marijuana March also goes by the names of the Million Marijuana March (MMM) and the Global Cannabis March. It began in 1999. See New York City, Dana Beal, and Wikipedia: Global Marijuana March. There are local names for the event too. Such as: World Cannabis Day, Cannabis Liberation Day, Global Space Odyssey, Ganja Day, J Day, Million Blunts March, etc.. The Global Marijuana March is a celebration embracing cannabis culture as a personal lifestyle choice. Participants unite to discuss, promote, entertain and educate both consumers and non-consumers alike. See Category: Featured GMM crowd photos.

Global Marijuana March links.

Latest links for Global Marijuana March. See GMM: basic city lists, detailed city lists, graphics, photos, maps, regions, links, years. Google images: Crowds, flyers: Marcha da Maconha. And: Marche Mondiale du Cannabis. And: Marcha Mundial de la Marihuana. And: Global Marijuana March. Add city name to searches.
See the latest GMM graphics, and worldwide GMM city list and map.

GMM city lists and maps: ~ 1999. 2000. 1.2.3.4.5. 6.7.8.9. 2010. 11.12.13.14.15. 16.17.18.19.20. 21.22.

City lists. Global Marijuana March, 420. Crowd photos.

2012 Nimbin MardiGrass in Australia. Part of Global Marijuana March 2012.

2011 GMM in France. Marche Mondiale du Cannabis. Image is derived from *Liberty Leading the People*.

2009 Global Marijuana March in Portugal.

2007 Global Marijuana March in Mexico City.

2006 Global Marijuana March in Leon, Spain.

2005 Global Marijuana March in Argentina. Cities of Buenos Aires, Rosario, and Cordoba.

2004 Million Marijuana March in Moscow, Russia.

2003 Million Marijuana March in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

2002 Million Marijuana March.

2000 Million Marijuana March in London, UK.

Click the images to enlarge them, and for more options.

Nations

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This list of nations is through 2012. Latest list of GMM nations is here.

The 65 nations are listed in alphabetical order:

Angola. Argentina. Australia. Austria. Belarus. Belgium. Bermuda. Brazil. Bulgaria. Cambodia. Canada. Cape Verde. Chile. Colombia. Costa Rica. Croatia. Cyprus. Czech Republic. Denmark. Ecuador. Finland. France. Germany. Greece. Guyana. Hungary. Iceland. Indonesia. Ireland. Israel. Italy. Jamaica. Japan. Lithuania. Luxembourg. Malaysia. Malta. Mexico. Moldova. Nepal. Netherlands. New Zealand. Norway. Peru. Philippines. Poland. Portugal. Puerto Rico. Romania. Russia. Serbia. Slovakia. Slovenia. South Africa. Spain. Sweden. Switzerland. Trinidad and Tobago. Turkey. Ukraine. United Kingdom. United States of America. Uruguay. Venezuela. Vietnam. (Note: To edit this list click any nation, or go to Template:Global Marijuana March nations.)

See also categories: Countries, Regions, and Cities (all city pages, not just GMM cities).

City list by region

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The cities listed below are in alphabetical order in each region and country.

Click a link for any city page and add more info. There is a need for many Wikipedia, Wikitravel, WeBeHigh.com, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, and other links. Many city pages need more info concerning local cannabis-related activism. Ask for help in forums, and anywhere else. Contact organizers for various cities, and ask for help with the city pages here and elsewhere. Copy links from the detailed city lists here and elsewhere. Find links via the GMM links page too. See Category:Countries. See also: Africa. Asia. Canada. Europe. Oceania. Russia. South and Central America. USA.

Africa

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7 cities from 3 nations in Africa have signed up one or more years since 1999. See: Angola. Cape Verde. South Africa. (Note: To edit this list click any city, or see Template:GMM cities Africa.)

Angola

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Luanda, Angola

Cape Verde

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Mindelo, Cape Verde - a republic (group of islands) off the west coast of Africa.

South Africa

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Asia

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17 cities from 9 nations in Asia have signed up one or more years since 1999. See: Cambodia. Indonesia. Israel. Japan. Malaysia. Nepal. Philippines. Turkey. Vietnam. (Note: To edit this list click any city, or see Template:GMM cities Asia.)

Cambodia

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Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Indonesia

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Jakarta, Indonesia

Israel

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Japan

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Malaysia

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Nepal

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Kathmandu, Nepal

Philippines

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Turkey

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Istanbul, Turkey

Vietnam

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Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Russia

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15 cities in Russia (in Asia and Europe) have signed up one or more years since 1999. (Note: To edit this list click any city, or see Template:GMM cities Russia).

Europe

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180 cities from 33 nations in Europe (and the North Atlantic) have signed up one or more years since 1999. Russia is in both Europe and Asia. 15 cities have signed up since 1999 from Russia. See cities in Global Marijuana March Russia. See: Austria. Belarus. Belgium. Bulgaria. Croatia. Cyprus. Czech Republic. Denmark. Finland. France. Germany. Greece. Hungary. Iceland. Ireland. Italy. Lithuania. Luxembourg. Malta. Moldova. Netherlands. Norway. Poland. Portugal. Romania. Serbia. Slovakia. Slovenia. Spain. Sweden. Switzerland. United Kingdom. Ukraine. (Note: To edit this list click any city, or see Template:GMM cities Europe.)

Oceania

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19 cities from 2 nations in Oceania have signed up one or more years since 1999. See: Australia. New Zealand. (Note: To edit this list click any city, or see Template:GMM cities Oceania.)

Australia

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New Zealand

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Latin America

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106 cities from 11 nations in Latin America have signed up one or more years since 1999. See: Argentina. Brazil. Chile. Colombia. Costa Rica. Ecuador. Guyana. Mexico. Peru. Uruguay. Venezuela. (Note: To edit this list click any city, or see Template:GMM cities Latin America.)

Nearby islands

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7 places from 5 nations have signed up one or more years since 1999. See: Bermuda. France. Jamaica. Puerto Rico. Trinidad and Tobago.

North America

Canada

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37 cities from 8 provinces of Canada have signed up one or more years since 1999. See: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan. (Note: To edit this list click any city, or see Template:GMM cities Canada.)

United States

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368 cities from all 50 states (and the District of Columbia) of the United States of America have signed up one or more years since 1999. See: Alabama. Alaska. Arizona. Arkansas. California. Colorado. Connecticut. Delaware. District of Columbia. Florida. Georgia. Hawaii. Idaho. Illinois. Indiana. Iowa. Kansas. Kentucky. Louisiana. Maine. Maryland. Massachusetts. Michigan. Minnesota. Mississippi. Missouri. Montana. Nebraska. Nevada. New Hampshire. New Jersey. New Mexico. New York. North Carolina. North Dakota. Ohio. Oklahoma. Oregon. Pennsylvania. Rhode Island. South Carolina. South Dakota. Tennessee. Texas. Utah. Vermont. Virginia. Washington. West Virginia. Wisconsin. Wyoming. (Note: To edit this list click any city, or see Template:GMM cities USA.)

The forever drug war

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US Taliban Republicans. Their cannabis war.

Republican gerrymandering and filibustering will allow the cannabis war to go on forever. At least in US Republican states. The US Congress could legalize or deschedule adult-use cannabis at the federal level if the Republican filibuster was gone. So do not vote for US Senate candidates of either party that support the filibuster. [13].

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See Wikipedia: Gerrymandering.

Nixon's racist drug war

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Republican President Richard Nixon (in office January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974) initiated the militant racist tone of the forever drug war.

The Republican Party has used its Drug War as a 50+ year distraction. All to serve the rich. See: Republican President Nixon's drug war against blacks and hippies. See Wikipedia: War on drugs. See Race, ethnicity, and drug war. See Wikipedia: Southern Strategy - Keeping poor whites and blacks fighting against each other, instead of the real enemy: rich Republican tax evaders. See Wikipedia: Nixon's Enemies List, of journalists, actors, union leaders, etc. who expose it all. A GOP playbook that has never ended, and played out yet again by billionaire Trump until he was dumped in 2020.

This quote from Nixon aide John Ehrlichman (in 1994) is from an April 2016 Dan Baum article in Harper's Magazine: Legalize It All. How to win the war on drugs. Quote: "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."
See: CNN info. See article: Nixon's drug war against blacks and hippies.

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US Republican states

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See Wikipedia: List of state parties of the Republican Party (United States).

See article: US Republican states. It's not just cannabis prohibition. And: Cannabis war. Part of Republican war on poor. And: US Taliban Republicans. Their cannabis war. And: NRA drug war. US National Rifle Association. And: Happy alternatives to US Republican-led poverty, mass incarceration, food insecurity, debt, ill health, intense concentration of wealth, endless wars. And: USA. The state of the nation.

Mostly in U.S. Republican states.
Percent of adults with overdue debt in collections. By county. See map.

See Wikipedia: Firearm death rates in the United States by state. And CNN: States with weaker gun laws have higher rates of firearm related homicides and suicides, study finds.

Wikipedia: List of U.S. states and territories by intentional homicide rate. See map.

Wikipedia: List of U.S. states and territories by incarceration and correctional supervision rate. Map is for sentenced state prisoners only. No Federal or local jail inmates. See map.

Republican minimum wages

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Why do US Republican leaders hate Americans? Why won't they raise the US federal minimum wage above $7.25? 62% in US support a $15 federal minimum wage. Stop voting in Republicans if you don't want the low minimum wages found in Republican states.

7 Oct 2021: Reallocation effects of the minimum wage. "In January 2015, Germany introduced a uniform minimum wage of €8.50 [$10 an hour today]. ... boosted wages of low-wage workers, did not lower employment, and induced a reallocation toward more productive establishments." 11 Jan 2022: Minimum wage in Germany to be raised once again in 2022.

Wikipedia: List of US states by minimum wage. See map. See Commons map.

US minimum wage peaked in 1968 in inflation-adjusted dollars. $13.16 in 2022 dollars. [14]. See chart.

Cannabis is safer.

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USA. The state of the nation.

Vote out most US Republicans and their cannabis war.

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16 Dec 2019: Majority Of Americans Support Marijuana Legalization, Two More New Polls Show. "Voters who supported President Trump in the 2016 election expressed greater opposition to the policy than Republicans and Republican-leaning independents as a whole."

2 May 2019: Time to Admit It: Trump Opposed Cannabis Legalization. He opposed 3 bills for veterans’ access to medical cannabis.

23 Feb 2019: Trump Continued to Flip-Flop on Medical Marijuana.

See: Reagan's war on cannabis. And: Holy War on Drugs, Conservative-led global incarceration.

Ronald Reagan, 1980 campaign speech: "Leading medical researchers are coming to the conclusion that marijuana, pot, grass whatever you want to call it, is probably the most dangerous drug in the United States, and we haven't begun to find out all of the ill effects, but they are permanent ill effects. The loss of memory for example."

Share link: Obama.

Obama correctly said that cannabis is safer than alcohol. See: Cannabis is safer. He also said marijuana should be treated more as a public health issue than a criminal one. And: Obama signals support for legalizing medical marijuana. [15]. See video.
USA. 1 in 10 deaths of working-age adults are alcohol-related (disease, overdose, car crashes, falls, violence, etc). 87,798 per year, 2006 to 2010. [16][17][18][19][20].

See longer article: Cannabis is safer.

Imagine if Mitt Romney had been elected President in 2012 instead of Obama.

Obama on marijuana legalization. [21]. "My suspicion is that you’re gonna see other states start looking at this". The Washington Post. Jan. 22, 2015.

Above quote is from Sanjay Gupta interview of Obama on April 15, 2015. Interview aired on CNN on April 19, 2015. [22][23][24].

Obama administration asks Supreme Court to reject lawsuit filed by Republican governments in Oklahoma and Nebraska to stop legal marijuana in Colorado [25]. December 2015.

**Obama** helped **turn around** the **Reagan-Bush War on Pot, mandatory minimums, mass incarceration.** See: **US incarceration peaked in 2008.**

Holder's Legacy: Steering Away From the Drug War and Mass Incarceration. [26]. Attorney General Eric Holder (2009-2015) under President Obama. 25 Sep 2014.

Register and vote for cannabis.

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Today's far-right Republicans

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US Republican states. It's not just cannabis prohibition. See also: Happy alternatives to US Republican-led poverty, mass incarceration, food insecurity, debt, ill health, intense concentration of wealth, endless wars.

News: Americans want universal healthcare and progressive taxation.

11 Aug 2021: Billionaires worldwide gained $5.5 trillion during pandemic. [27]. Hunger. [28]. Wealth inequality at levels not seen since just before the Great Depression. Republican tax cuts for the rich. Record low inflation-adjusted US federal minimum wage. [29].

USA. The state of the nation.

$70 billion to end pandemic

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11 Aug 2021: Article. "The world’s 2,690 global billionaires saw their combined wealth rise from $8 trillion on March 20, 2020 to $13.5 trillion as of July 31, 2021, ... The cost of vaccinating the world’s adult population was calculated as follows: two doses at $7 per dose for 5 billion people, for a total of $70 billion."
12 Aug 2021: One-off emergency tax on billionaires’ pandemic windfalls could fund Covid-19 jabs for all and cash grant to all unemployed workers.

Mask mandates work

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29 Aug 2021: CDC: An Unvaccinated Teacher Took Off Their Mask to Read Aloud. Half the Class Got COVID.
28 Aug 2021: Do face masks work? Here are 49 scientific studies that explain why they do.

GOP taxes screw middle class

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USA. The state of the nation.

Trump signed tax law that gave 83% of benefits to the top 1%.

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Republican filibuster equals

The evil history of the US Senate filibuster, or why the US no longer has simple majority rule. [30]. See Wikipedia: Filibuster.

US voter suppression

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20 Oct 2021: Senate Republicans use filibuster to again block sweeping voting rights bill.

See Wikipedia: Disenfranchisement. And Wikipedia: Voter suppression.

Republicans have disenfranchised black, brown, and poor white people via "The New Jim Crow"; the drug war and mass incarceration. See: Holy War on Drugs, Conservative-led global incarceration.

High US taxes on poor

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The forever war on the poor. Republican filibuster says to Americans: "Heads we win, tails you lose." Democracy? What democracy?

When Democrats have the majority, the Republican minority uses the filibuster to block higher taxes on the rich, and to block lower taxes on the middle class and poor. When Republicans have the majority they use budget reconciliation to use their simple majority to lower taxes on the rich, and increase user fees, sales taxes, and other regressive taxation to increase taxes on the poor and middle class.

This is the whole purpose of the US Republican Party. To serve the rich. Period.

Minimum wage workers crushed while serving the Republican low-tax-paying rich:

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And on US middle class

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Chart below. 2017 Republican tax and individual mandate repeal bill. Yellow is for an average increase in cost for people in those groups. Higher costs hitting more people each year. Up to incomes of $75,000.

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Chart source.


Republican tax bill hurts the poor more than originally thought, Congressional Budget Office finds.	"By 2019, Americans earning less than $30,000 a year would be worse off under the Senate bill, CBO found. By 2021, Americans earning $40,000 or less would be net losers, and by 2027, most people earning less than $75,000 a year would be worse off. On the flip side, millionaires and those earning $100,000 to $500,000 would be big beneficiaries".
2 polls: Only 29% of Americans approve of Republican tax plan. 2.

Low US minimum wage

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17 June 2019: US federal minimum wage has 35% less buying power than in 1969. 10 years since last increase. A record. CNN. [31].

The filibuster and presidential veto should be short delays before 50% +1 votes. Stop Republican wars on cannabis, voting rights, abortion rights, universal healthcare, and living wages:

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Source. & US minimum wage.

2 Jul 2019: There’s More Evidence That Raising the Minimum Wage Won’t Cost Jobs.

High wealth inequality

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Median wealth is exactly in the middle. 50% of adults have more, and 50% have less. Wealth is all assets (money, stocks, property, etc.) minus all debts. See Wikipedia: List of countries by wealth per adult - From the 2021 publication: The average median wealth per adult for Canada ($125,688) is much higher than that of the former great nation, the USA ($79,274). It's due to Republican trickle-down voodoo economics: Giving tax cuts to the rich instead of to the middle class and poor who actually need them. Low federal minimum wage. Plus predatory mortgage loans and foreclosure. And predatory unforgivable student loans. Google News search: student debt.

Chart below. USA. 1989-2018. Top 1% Up $21 Trillion. Bottom 50% Down $900 Billion.

USA. 1989-2018. Top 1% Up $21 Trillion. Bottom 50% Down $900 Billion.png

Republicans wasted $$-trillions on health insurance companies, and ground wars ($5.6 trillion) based on Bush/CIA WMD lies. Instead of paying higher wages, and higher minimum wages. As Canada does.

5 Oct 2017: Nine Charts about Wealth Inequality in America (Updated).

US middle-class wealth has collapsed. [32]. See chart below.

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Middle class wealth collapsing. [33]. And: Just 8 men own same wealth as half the world. See Wikipedia: Wealth in the United States.

Median wealth per adult. Credit Suisse. 2021 report. Country links are to Wikipedia articles. Click red column headers to sort. Link.

Country

Median wealth
per adult.
US dollars

1

Luxembourg

259,899

2

Australia

238,072

3

Iceland

231,462

4

Belgium

230,548

5

Hong Kong

173,768

6

New Zealand

171,624

7

Denmark

165,622

8

Switzerland

146,733

9

Netherlands

136,105

10

France

133,559

11

United Kingdom

131,522

12

Canada

125,688

13

Japan

122,980

14

Italy

118,885

15

Norway

117,798

16

Spain

105,831

17

Ireland

99,028

18

Taiwan

93,044

19

Austria

91,833

20

Sweden

89,846

21

South Korea

89,671

22

Singapore

86,717

23

Malta

84,390

24

Qatar

83,680

25

Israel

80,315

26

United States

79,274

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Low quality of life

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See: Happy alternatives to US Republican-led poverty, mass incarceration, food insecurity, debt, ill health, intense concentration of wealth, endless wars.

Germany has a much lower murder rate than the USA. Also, Germany has better health indicators, and its healthcare cost per person is half US cost (all costs, public and private).

Source and comments.

High household debt

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US household debt at all time high. Chart below is from the PDF.
Total household debt. From 1st quarter 2003 through recent times.

Total Household Debt by Type:

Click to enlarge. Timeline is by quarters.

High US medical debt

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This doesn't happen in Canada, due to single-payer universal healthcare.

17 Jan 2019: US. 34 Devastating Stories About How People Are Still Crushed By Medical Debt. By Venessa Wong. BuzzFeed News.

High student loan debt

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Student Loan Debt by State. Map, table, and article.
15 July 2021: Student Loan Debt Statistics: 2021. U.S. student loan debt totals $1.6 trillion as of March 31, 2021.

Public elementary and secondary school in the USA costs an average of $14,891 a year per student in taxes. The money spent between the ages of 16 to 18 could be set aside for 2 years of full-board-and-tuition college. Look at Scotland: Adult at age 16. Scotland. What can I do at my age? And: Age of Legal Capacity (Scotland) Act 1991. And: Wikipedia: Education in Scotland: "In 2014, research by the Office for National Statistics found that Scotland was the most highly educated country in Europe". See: Wikipedia: Age of majority (by country). Wikipedia: Voting age.

Punitive bankruptcy law

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No Fresh Start: Will States Let Debt Collectors Push Families Into Poverty In The Wake of a Pandemic? US map with state-by-state grades on the fairness of bankruptcy laws. "NCLC surveys the exemption laws of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Sadly, not one jurisdiction’s laws meet basic standards so that debtors can continue to work productively to support themselves and their families."
Model Family Financial Protection Act. Including fairer bankruptcy and debt laws.
Debt in America: An Interactive Map. 29% of all adults. 24% of whites. 39% of people of color. See the map there, and below. See the astonishing percentages of adults with debt in collection. By county. Especially in the South. The South has been greatly impoverished by low Republican minimum wages, lack of expanded Medicaid, unfair bankruptcy laws, massive evictions (past and upcoming).

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Stagnant US wages

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USA. Since 2001, labor’s share of national income has suffered a sustained decline. 11 Sep 2018.

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See above chart source. [34]. And source article.

Chart below: Top 10% of earners receive 50% of all income. When capital gains are included.

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Above graph source. And: Source 2.

10 Jul 2018: National (US) Pay Trends. "Since 2006, wages have risen 12.9 percent overall in the US. But when you factor in inflation, real wages' have actually fallen 9.3 percent. In other words, the income for a typical worker today buys them less than it did in 2006."

2 Jul 2018: An Update for 2018: More Evidence That Half of Americans Are In or Near Poverty. Paul Buchheit. Common Dreams.

For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades. 7 Aug 2018. By Drew DeSilver. Pew Research Center. Chart below is from the article. Bottom of chart says: "Data for wages of production and non-supervisory employees on private non-farm payrolls."
Top line in timeline below is hourly wages adjusted for inflation. It is flat: Bottom of chart below says: "Data for wages of production and non-supervisory employees on private non-farm payrolls."

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Racist law enforcement

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The KKK owns law enforcement today in the Republican state of Florida.
27 July 2021: Inside a KKK murder plot: Grab him up, take him to the river. "Even though three current and former Florida prison guards were exposed as klansmen, the state’s Department of Corrections says it found no reason to investigate whether other white supremacists were employed in its prisons."

Poorly rated healthcare

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6 Aug 2021: Stunning new report ranks US dead last in health care among richest countries—despite spending the most. "The U.S. also had the highest infant mortality rate and lowest life expectancy at age 60 compared with other countries. ... The poor performance is nothing new, as the U.S. has landed in last place in all seven studies the Commonwealth Fund has released since 2004."

Canadian single-payer healthcare versus US healthcare. Canada's far lower murder rate is from having far fewer handguns per household than in the US. 2. And: Portugal is another country with universal healthcare. It only had around 30 to 55 drug overdose deaths per year the last few years. All drugs have been decriminalized there since 2001. Link: Chart. 2.
Country	Healthcare cost per person. US dollars PPP. 2019	Life expectancy. 2019	Murder rate per 100,000. 2020
Canada	$5,418	82.4 years	2.0
USA	$11,072	78.9 years	6.5

Country	Under-5 mortality rate per 1000 live births. 2019	Maternal mortality rate per 100,000 live births. 2017
Canada	4.9	10
USA	6.5	19

No universal healthcare

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Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security all came from Democrats. You pay the taxes while healthier. Republicans prefer you die. 50% in U.S. Fear Bankruptcy Due to Major Health Event. [35]

Google search: 26,000 Americans die each year from not having health insurance.

Single payer costs less

See Wikipedia: List of countries by total health expenditure per capita.

Portugal's drug decrim equals

50 drug overdose deaths yearly

Vs 100,000 yearly US deaths

There were around 106,800 US drug overdose deaths in the year ending November 30, 2021. 293 per day. Only around 30 to 55 per year in Portugal, a country with universal healthcare, and where all drugs have been decriminalized since 2001. See: Youtube: Portugal’s Drug Laws: Decriminalisation in action. May 16, 2018 video from Australia's Special Broadcasting Service. No one has been arrested for simple possession (under the limits) since 2001.

President Eisenhower. 1953:

His 91% top marginal tax rate

Equaled prosperity for more.

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Eisenhower was not a socialist. He did not support state ownership of industries and businesses.
Eisenhower, an economically progressive Republican President, had a 91% top marginal income tax rate.. He participated in one of the greatest eras of economic prosperity-for-more in the US in the 1950s.
That era had lower overall taxes on the middle class.

There was a higher average effective tax rate on the top 1 percent of US households in the 1950s. It was 42% when totaling federal, state, and local taxes. In 2014 it was 36.4%. See chart below.

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Chart below. See: Highest US marginal income tax rates over time.

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Above chart source. And: Source 2.

Chart below. Timeline of top US federal marginal tax rate.

Republican President Lincoln

Created first progressive

US federal income tax.

Progressive Capitalism

Is not Socialism, and

It is not state ownership.

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Republican president Abraham Lincoln did not believe in state ownership of industries and businesses. So he was not a "socialist". Socialism was not well known at that time. See Wikipedia: Socialism.

In the United States, the first progressive federal income tax was established by the Revenue Act of 1862. The act was signed into law by Lincoln. It replaced a flat tax. See Wikipedia: Progressive tax.

Lincoln's economically progressive message below. What a contrast to today's far-right Republican leaders. From a message to the U.S. Congress, 3 December 1861:

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."

Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Abraham Lincoln.jpg

More sources: [36]. The full speech. See: Facebook image.

Thomas Paine on the poor

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Thomas Paine statue below in Thetford, England. See: Paine Wikiquotes. Search for "poor" within those quotes. For example:

When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, then may the country boast of its constitution and its government.

Paine was nothing like today's Republican Party.

Thomas Paine statue in Thetford, Norfolk, England. July 2004.jpg

Overpopulation = Warming

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Politicians need to incentivize more hempcrete construction [37][38][39], so that carbon dioxide levels go down. But that is not enough to stop global warming.

Overpopulation equals more global warming via less greenspace removing carbon dioxide.

Side-by-side photos. Our underwater future: What sea level rise will look like around the globe. High tide could flood 800 million people by 2060s.
Wikipedia: List of countries by population (United Nations). Shows population increase rates.
Wikipedia: List of sovereign states and dependencies by total fertility rate.

Many clueless Republican leaders deny it all. They also block free birth control via universal healthcare. See Wikipedia: Single payer healthcare. It costs less per person and gets better results. See:

Wikipedia: List of countries by total health expenditure per capita.

As countries prosper in a just and fair way their population stabilizes. See median wealth by country:

Wikipedia: List of countries by wealth per adult.

Migration has to be limited to within regions of several countries. Countries with low birth control can not dump their overpopulation on to the whole world. There must be multinational aid to fund birth control, not unlimited migration.

See crowded beach below and link:

Wikipedia: List of countries and dependencies by population density.

Global warming. Roswell tech

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Roswell UFO craft and alien body retrieval was real according to U.S. Army officer Walter Haut. He signed affidavits to that effect in 1993 and 2002. Released in 2007 after his death in 2005. Video made in 2000. Released in May 2021. Much of the technology has been back engineered, and its carbon-free energy could possibly end global warming. Share link: Roswell UFO. Articles about Haut:

17 Aug 2021: “My father saw the bodies”: chasing the truth about Roswell. By James Jennings. Archived here.

14 May 2021: Ex-Army officer ADMITS he saw ‘alien the size of a 10-year-old child’ after famous Roswell UFO crash in incredible video. By Emma Parry. Archived here. This article has a short excerpt of the video.

May 2021: Roswell Officer Speaks From the Grave: Video Released, Confesses that Alien was "the size of a 10 year old". By Anthony Bragalia. Archived here. From article: "This video clip is part of a memoir video / oral history over two hours in length that covers many personal and professional aspects of Haut's life. The video was taken at the Roswell Museum in 2000 with friends Dennis Balthaser and Wendy Connors."

30 June 2007: Roswell officer's amazing deathbed admission raises possibility that aliens DID visit. By Nick Pope. Archived here.

2002 and 1993 affidavits. Archived here. Scroll down for the affidavits.

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