2010: A progressive strategy to win
11-18-2009 – 12:50 pm | Comments

By Brent Budowsky | The Hill
Progressives throughout the nation should rally around a strategy that could bring a surprise victory in the 2010 elections with a clear electoral plan and a program that is patriotic, …

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Mimi Kennedy’s letter to the New York Times
4-27-2009 – 2:36 pm | Comments
Mimi Kennedy’s letter to the New York Times

Crossposted from: http://markcrispinmiller.com
Governor Don Siegelman’s prosecution by Bush’s Justice Dept.
As a child, I heard about writers, artists and politicians in Communist Russia being imprisoned and hospitalized, careers ruined, for false reasons, because they were considered …

The Four Torture Memos, Eichmann, And The Obama Administration
4-27-2009 – 2:18 pm | Comments
The Four Torture Memos, Eichmann, And The Obama Administration

By Lawrence Velvel | AfterDowningStreet
PART I
I have read the four memoranda that were recently released by the DOJ and authorized torture. Permit me to invent a similar but short memo that will allow the reader, …

IATSE Locals in St. Louis, Boston & Sacramento Endorse HR 676
4-26-2009 – 10:37 am | Comments
IATSE Locals in St. Louis, Boston & Sacramento Endorse HR 676

Three more IATSE local unions have endorsed HR 676, single payer health care legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI).
Stage Hands Local 6 in St. Louis, Stage Hands Local 11 in Boston and Local 50 …

Bybee and the BYU Connection
4-22-2009 – 9:53 pm | Comments
Bybee and the BYU Connection

By Jayne Lyn Stahl
The born again litter, and radical right wing of the Republican party which has held dominion since before the Reagan revolution, as we now see has also taken a wrecking crew …

Take Heart and Have Courage
4-22-2009 – 7:13 pm | Comments

By David Swanson | DavidSwanson.org
We’ve pushed long and hard to put accountability, impeachment, prosecution, and the restoration of congressional power on the American table, and they’ve all just landed with a thud and splatter of …

PDA Supports HR 676, will you?
4-20-2009 – 4:32 pm | Comments
PDA Supports HR 676, will you?

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IOT: Economic & Social Justice Call 4/14/2009
4-20-2009 – 4:29 pm | Comments

On this call we had Larry Weiss, Employee Free Choice Act Field Director, League of Rural Voters and Tim Waters, Natl. Rapid Response Coordinator,United Steelworkers of America discussing the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). We …

USW and CWA Locals Endorse HR 676
4-20-2009 – 12:31 pm | Comments
USW and CWA Locals Endorse HR 676

Two more local unions in Oregon have endorsed HR 676, single payer
healthcare legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI).
In McMinnville, Steelworkers Local 8378 endorsed HR 676 and submitted
its resolution to the Marion, Polk and Yamhill …