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Progressive Breakfast - 10/4/2011
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: Something Can Be...
The Take Back Message Something Can Be Done
If there was one message that united the various speeches that launched the Take Back the American Dream conference in Washington, it was perhaps summed up by former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who gave a post-lunch talk that was as potent as a can of Red Bull....
We Dont Need a Messiah We Have a Movement
Van Jones put to rest the notion of a divided Left, as he kicked off the Take Back the American Dream conference today. Noting the wide-ranging feelings about President Barack Obama among the thousands attending the conference, Jones said: "Some people love the...
Progressive Breakfast - 10/3/2011
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: Saving The Dream...
Is The Tea Party Over Maybe
It's always struck me as odd that the media could portray the tea party as a "grassroots movement." From its corporate origins on CNBC to its corporate PR backing and its even more corporate agenda, not much about it has ever seemed grassroots to me. Odder still was...
The Empty Promise of Pay for Performance
Pundits and politicians love to righteously denounce the windfall rewards that go to corporate CEOs who 'fail.' But windfalls for CEOs who 'perform,' researchers suggest, ought to worry us far more. Leo Apotheker, the just-axed CEO at computer giant Hewlett-Packard,...
Actual Enforcement Of Actual Laws Is It Possible
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is back to work, and for the first time in years has started doing its job. This is a shock to anti-government corporate conservatives, and teaches a lesson about just why they are anti-government. A functioning government in...
Palin and Boeing CEO Tell Government Who The Boss Is
What can a democracy like ours do when giant companies say, "Rules? We don’t need no stinkin’ rules! We don’t got to pay you no taxes!" and "We will just move out of your puny country if you try to tell us what to do." Government is beginning to enforce labor laws...
Conservative War On Workers Continues With Gutting Of Labor Board
House conservatives today threw another grenade today in their war on workers and the institutions designed to protect worker rights. They also continued to show their willingness to politically interfere in an administrative law process to impose their ideology and...
CorporateConservative Heads Explode As NLRB Actually Enforces Law
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is engaging in legal action against Boeing and is threatening to sue Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Utah for anti-union activities. It has been so long since the NLRB was willing and able to engage on the side of...
