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Progressive Breakfast - 10/18/2011
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: Survey Says, OWS...
What 21st Century Democracy Looks Like
Those who say they don’t know what the Occupy Wall Street protestors want fail to understand the nature of this quintessential 21st century movement. It is true that they have no manifesto or declaration. They have not released a singular list of demands, although...
Occupy Wall Street Day 12 - Poised To Take Off
"We are occupying Wall Street. We will not be moved." "Occupy Wall Street is leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed...
Occupy Wall Street Day 13 - Rebel Or Slave - Boston San Francisco Too
"Either you are a rebel or a slave." "Why is life a bitch? Cause we don't tax the rich!" The protests have spread to San Francisco and Boston. People are fed up, and our government has refused to hold Wall Street and the banksters accountable. Seriously, is there...
Washington Ignored The People And Now You’ve Got #Occupy
What did the politicians in Washington think would happen? They forgot about the "We, the People" part of our Constitution. After bailing out the banks and bankers and interests of the top 1% they fiddled while our jobs burned and mortgages defaulted. With people...
Jobs - Still The #1 National Emergency
We are in an absolute national jobs emergency and everyone outside of Washington, DC understands this. But if you read the DC-oriented press, you would think that the "issue" of jobs has come and gone. You would read that "each side" has "scored points." You would...
Recall On Scott Walkers Campaign Coffers Open for Business
Putting aside a laundry list of potential dates, calculations and concerns, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin announced last week that they will be joining with community groups to launch a campaign to recall the state's governor, Scott Walker. With a corruption...
Occupy Wall Street and New Bottom Line Spark The Struggle To Take Back The American Dream
In its second week, hundreds of people have taken over Liberty Square as part of Occupy Wall Street. What started as a loosely organized protest against the corrupting impact that Wall Street and big financial institutions have had on our democracy seems to be growing...
Whose Side Are You On The Moral Clarity of Occupy Wall Street
Once Occupy Wall Street demonstrations started to sweep across America, the mainstream media began to pay attention -- and sounded a chorus of criticism. The movement was disorganized; it had no agenda. It wasn't organized like the Tea Party. Fox News trotted out ace...
Heres Occupy Wall Streets One Demand Sanity
Occupy Wall Street at Take Back the American Dream Excerpts of speeches from the Monday morning session of the Take Back the American Dream conference devoted to the Occupy Wall Street protests, featuring Nelini Stamp of the Working Families Party in New York, Tracy...
