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Unemployed Confront Congress At Take Back The Capitol
Today thousands of unemployed people and others came to D.C. to tell Congress and "K Street" that they need jobs not cuts; that we should tax the rich, and that unemployment benefits must be extended before they run out at the end of the year. I am in Washington to...
As Unemployed Seize K Street Time To Amplify Pressure On Congress
It was a dismal, rainy day in Washington, but the soaking that several hundred activists got today in the heart of the K Street financial and lobbying district in downtown Washington was nothing compared to the soaking that they and the rest of the "99 percent" have...
99 March On K Street To Take Back The Capitol From The 1
I am in DC covering the Take Back the Capitol "99 in DC" events. On Tuesday I wrote about the efforts of unemployed people and others to get in to talk to their senators and representatives. (Watch some of them tell their stories.) On Wednesday they marched to “K...
Take Back The Capitol -- Right Message Right Time
Last week’s Take Back the Capitol action brought two or three thousand unemployed people to the capitol. These representatives of the 99% went to the offices of 99 Senators and Representatives who now represent the 1%, where they were ignored and doors were closed on...
Nullifying Democracy
James Fallows: Before the episode recedes fully from the news, please read this item, by Jonathan Cohn on Thursday evening, about the extraordinary step the Senate Republicans took that day. Cohn says that the Republican minority's success in blocking a vote on...
Progressive Breakfast - 12/12/2011
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. Bill Scher returns Wednesday....
Talking War Bucks and the Web wCenk Glenn Greenwald Waldman on Current TV
(If the video doesn't appear on your browser, it's available here) Was on Current TV's The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur the other day, appearing with the crew and participating in a "Power Panel" discussion with Glenn Greenwald and Paul Waldman. The...
America’s Greediest The 2011 Top Ten Edition
One puts on football pageants. Another makes millions on a virtual farm. From Too Much, the Institute for Policy Studies inequality weekly, we present the year's ten most avaricious. All ten remind us just how much needs to change, economically and politically, in...
Hungry For the Holidays
Just in time for the holidays, conservatives are presenting their latest gift to America's political discourse. Not satisfied with having creating and popularizing climate change denialism, and not even inequality denialism, it looks like conservatives are applying...
Budget Process Nonsense From Paul Ryan
This would be funny if it weren't so sad in so many ways: House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) has proposed a series of changes in the congressional budget process. Don't get me wrong; the existing budget process not only is not perfect but is close to a...
