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Progressive Breakfast - 6/10/2010
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. Major Climate Vote In Senate Today...
A New Front in the Income Inequality Wars?
Britain's new Conservative Party prime minister has an idea for ending pay excess in the public sector. Should overpaid execs in the private sector — in the United States — now be starting to shudder? Conservatives politicians have always enjoyed bashing...
The Rights Revolution: From Utter Disgust To Utter Accountability
Where RIghts went Wrong: What Happened to the Rights Revolution? Palladian Room Breakout Nan Aron Rea Carey Adam Luna Anthony D. Romero Kierra Johnson Anthony Romero, the president of the American Civil Liberties Union, did not mince words earlier today when he...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/9/2010
AFN10 Day 3 Preview: Speaking Frankly Watch live video at www.ourfuture.org/now. Key sessions today... 8:30 AM: "Speaking Frankly" with Rep. Alan Grayson 9:10 AM: "Can Congress Work in Polarized Age?" with Sen. Tom Udall and more 9:10 AM: "Securing America" with Rep....
Now That's Progressive: Insurance Exec Honored For Movement Support
Most people know Progressive Insurance from its quirky commercials, starring a character named Flo who staffs the checkout counter at an supermarket that sells insurance in neatly labeled boxes. But the leaders of the nation's leading progressive activist...
Why This Ex-AIG Exec Is Protesting Treasury's Backdoor "AIG Bailout"
Life can only be understood backward, said Kierkegaard, but it has to be lived forward. That's the only explanation I can offer for the strange turn of events that led to me becoming an AIG executive, then a progressive writer/blogger, and to my plans to speak...
Liveblogging AFN Press Conference On JOBS
Bob Borosage introduced Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO, who said, "Saving and creating jobs is the path to reducing the deficit." Progressive tradition in America means the same today as for many years. It is the promise of a society built on what unites us not divides...
Chronic Unemployment: Crisis or "Correction"
Like any parents, we want the best possible future for our children, and we're doing all we can to prepare them to attain it as our parents did for us. Being the grandson of sharecroppers and the son of 1st generation Polish immigrants, to us that means getting an...
Liveblogging the Made In America AFN Session
This is semi-live blogging (notes corrected later) and there is a lot, so I will highlight the most important points. I attended the Making It In America breakout session at the America’s Future Now conference this morning. Scott Paul of the Alliance for American...
The Unemployment Catastrophe: You, Too, Should Be Infuriated
What if the nation's jobless crisis received the same 24-7 media attention that the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is now receiving? That is the question that comes to mind as several progressive leaders addressed the nation's unemployment catastrophe at...
