by Radhika Raman | Jun 21, 2012 | Blog
There are people who become the face of a movement. They attend press conferences, head panels at conferences, and claim to speak for those who do not traditionally have a voice. Then there are the “behind-the-scenes” activists. They are the people in back rooms who...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 20, 2012 | Blog
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., explains in this interview with Richard Eskow that progressives can and must win the fight against the right-wing austerity policies wrapped in the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction plan. Schakowsky was a member of the deficit commission...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 20, 2012 | Blog
A straw poll taken at the Take Back the American Dream conference shows that the "enthusiasm gap" between progressives and President Obama is very real. Progressive leaders are nonetheless committed to Obama's reelection, the poll shows. The question that Obama must...
by Radhika Raman | Jun 20, 2012 | Blog
At the Take Back the American Dream conference Wednesday, strategies and tactics were weaved with moving personal stories at a session on racial profiling with Gaby Pacheco, Rashad Robinson, Jasiri X, and moderator Cathy Montoya. The panelists described racial...
