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Sabotage the Supercommittee We Say Go For It
Ezra Klein's "Wonkbook" is invaluable for anyone trying to follow the Washington policymaking process. Each day it offers its readers everything from the latest CBO analyses to the newest latest adorable animal videos. Since I'm both an obsessive reader of reports and...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/16/2011
MORNING MESSAGE: Why Would They Shut Down Occupy Now? OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "...the timing's very interesting - and, for some people, very convenient. The nation's expecting a deficit package from the undemocratic Super Committee, anticipating another...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Why Would They Shut Down Occupy Now? OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "…the timing's very interesting - and, for some people, very convenient. The nation's expecting a deficit package from the undemocratic Super Committee, anticipating another...
Crash Tax Wall Street Reparations
Wall Street waged war on the American economy and middle class with its reckless gambling. It wasn’t Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac that crashed the economy. It wasn’t the federal government. It wasn’t hapless homeowners who were sold mortgages they couldn’t afford. It was...
State of Siege USA Why Would They Want to Shut the #Occupy Movement Down NOW
Suddenly the Occupy movement is under siege everywhere. There's been a wave of simultaneous, seemingly coordinated clampdowns on peaceful demonstrators in cities all across the country. Why now? It could be nothing more than one heck of a coast-to-coast coincidence,...
The Evictions Wont Stand Make Nov 17 A Day Of National Occupation
"You can't evict an idea whose time has come." That was the message posted on OccupyWallSt.org as early this morning, police began to storm the Occupy Wall Street protests in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan. To prove it, supporters of the Occupy movement have vowed...
The Leadup To Occupy Nov 17 Congressional Jobs Not Cuts Hearing
On Wednesday, the day before hundreds of Occupy events are scheduled to break out across the country, members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus will be holding a hearing highlighting the "jobs, not cuts" theme that is a key part of the Occupy movement. The...
As Zuccotti Park is Cleared Congress Moves to Gut Financial Reform
In the dead of night last night, the movement to hold big banks accountable for their crimes took two major hits. Occupy Wall Street activists were swept from Zuccotti Park as radical members of Congress moved to gut funding for the Commodity Futures Trading...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/15/2011
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. MORNING MESSAGE: These Evictions...
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: These Evictions...
