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Progressive Breakfast - 10/7/2011
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: Demanding Justice...
Roger Hickey on Dylan Ratigan We Need Jobs to Rebuild the American Dream
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Co-director Roger Hickey appeared on the Dylan Ratigan Show Tuesday to discuss the influence of big money in politics and whether progressives could find common cause with tea party activists on...
It Is Time To Keep Marching To Take Back Americas Dream
So tell me is this fair? We've got worker's rights in the air, and Congress hasn't put one jobs bill there. What's up, Boehner? Now I catch feeling that you don't even care about a debt ceiling. The only thing our Congress is doing is working to bring women's rights...
Courtney Foley Wins The Maria Leavey Award
Courtney Foley, the Starkville, Miss. native responsible for making sure that a referendum to bring down an anti-worker bill in Ohio qualifies for the ballot, received this year's Maria Leavey Tribute Award at the Take Back the American Dream conference on Wednesday....
Straw Poll Results Progressives Stand With Obamas Jobs Agenda
This will be a disappointment for the political reporters always looking to gawk at "hot Dem-on-Dem" action or what Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md., at the Take Back the American Dream conference this week called a "progressive food fight," but the straw poll taken at that...
SHOCKER A Liar in a Congressman’s Office
Nicole Sandler was a featured speaker at the Take Back the American Dream conference, and is host of The Nicole Sandler Show Mon.-Thurs. at 10 AM ET. The following was originally published at Radio or Not. After the American Dream rally at the Capitol, a group of us...
Revisiting Santelli
Ezra is featuring some thoughts by veteran organizer Rich Yeselson on his blog today that are well worth reading. I think his insight about face to face involvement is particularly interesting. I'm hearing from people who are involved in the protests that the energy...
President Obama Calls The Republicans Bluff On Jobs
President Barack Obama today made sure that congressional Republicans will pay a political price if they continue to obstruct any action on jobs. Asked whether he was merely campaigning instead of negotiating to pass a jobs bill, President Obama said he was "eager" to...
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: Time To March...
Progressive Breakfast - 10/6/2011
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: Time To March...
