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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...
Occupy Wall Street Demanding Justice
It's been a while since empathy — the uniquely human capacity to recognize and share the feelings experienced by others, that science even suggests is hardwired in us — when President Obama included it in the qualities he sought in a Supreme Court appointee, and...
Seven Snappy Comebacks For Those Lame Anti-Occupy Talking Points
Lame, pat, pre-packaged putdowns of Occupy Wall Street: We all deal with 'em, whether we're arguing with a neighbor, appearing on Fox, or answering the jeers of relatives who've just received a chain email that "really puts the protesters in their place." Here are a...
Welcome 53 Percenters to the 99 Percent
It was inevitable, I suppose, that the success of Occupy Wall Street and "We Are the 99 Percent" would spawn reactions and imitators on the right. But the newly launched "We Are the 53 Percent" is a miracle of the kind of contradiction and contortionism that has...
Chicago to Wall Street Pay US Back
While the Occupy Wall Street movement is sweeping the country and peaceful arrests are mounting, Chicagoans took to the streets this week to hold the big banks accountable for crashing the economy and to demand city, state and federal policies that work for working...
They Need To Understand Who Their Constituency Is
I don't know how much more clearly they can say it: “Who do you think pays the taxes?” said one longtime money manager. “Financial services are one of the last things we do in this country and do it well. Let’s embrace it. If you want to keep having jobs outsourced,...
Progressive Breakfast - 10/17/2011
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: GOP -- The...
