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GE Shareholder Meeting Disrupted
(Note - updated with audio of meeting and video of protests taking place outside, at bottom of post.)
Snapshots of Austerity Indifference
Depending on your point of view, the results on austerity are in.
Voting Begins For This Years Unsung Progressive Hero
Two Occupy movement volunteers, a Chicago community organizer, an Atlanta health care activist and a crusader against "prison-based gerrymandering" have been nominated for the annual Maria Leavey Tribute Award, which honors an unsung progressive hero.
Progressive Breakfast
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security.
MORNING MESSAGE: Higher "Productivity" Is Not The American Dream
Progressive Breakfast - 4/30/2012
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security.
MORNING MESSAGE: Higher "Productivity" Is Not The American Dream
Gadgetopia Chasing After an Elusive Dream
Bits and bytes would be doing a lot more to help make our lives less nasty, brutish, and short if we shared wealth as routinely as bandwidth. From San Francisco, a new lesson in that reality.
False Equivalence Award To Thomas E Mann and Norman J Ornstein
Today's false equivalence award goes to Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein for their Washington Post op-ed titled, Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.
Drowning in Dirty Money
People who follow politics often reach the conclusion that average Americans are kind of dopey and don't really understand what's going on. After all, they often hold contradictory views and vote against their self-interest.
But sometimes there's just no denying that being outside the political bubble has its advantages: they see through the bullshit.
URGENT Call the House NOW and say Vote NO on the Sham Student Loan Bill
House Republicans are trying to snooker the public with a vote today, around 12 PM ET, on a sham student loan bill. We need you to call House switchboard at 202-225-3121 NOW, ask for your representative and say "Vote No."
If Romney Hates Government And Its Workers So Much Why Is He Running For President
Mitt Romney says government workers are paid too well and in general government is a bad thing. But he wants to run it. Romney made his fortune by buying companies, laying off the workers, and keeping the money they were making for himself. He apparently thinks everyone but the 1% are paid too well. So maybe that's the plan.
