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Progressive Breakfast - 5/24/2010
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. Action On Jobs Face Resistance This...
Glenn Beck's Common Nonsense: An Interview With Alex Zaitchik
America has this long tradition of twisted, odd, widely beloved and yet darkly dangerous right-wing cultural impresarios that pop up out of our landscape like cultural tornadoes, leaving huge swaths of derangement and destruction in their wake. Aimee Semple McPherson....
Bank Fight Continues, Now it's Lincoln vs. Obama
This week, the U.S. Senate passed a financial reform bill that was far stronger that what had been proposed by the Obama administration and passed by the House. Now it's time to hold President Obama's feet to the fire to ensure the strongest possible bill. Not long...
Glenn Beck's Common Nonsense: An Interview With Alex Zaitchik
The change agenda at America's Future NOW!Alexander Zaitchik will be featured on a panel entitled "Tea Parties, Beck, Bachman and Blarney"REGISTER NOWfor AFN 2010America has this long tradition of twisted, odd, widely beloved and yet darkly dangerous right-wing...
Boehner's On Board: Momentum For an Innovative Live TV House/Senate Conference
Momentum is building for putting a historic conference between the House and Senate online and on live television, as they debate the future of financial reform. This is the time to contact Senators and Representatives to support this critical step toward open...
Safety Awards That Endanger Workers’ Lives
BP, Massey Energy and Tesoro all have hauled out plaques celebrating safety achievements to deflect allegations of corporate recklessness in the aftermath of explosions in April that killed 47 of their workers. Though each of these corporations accepted awards for...
Week Of Action on Jobs
On the one side there are millions of people needing jobs and millions more "underemployed," the economy is still mired in a very, very slow recovery that is a recovery only in the technical sense, an increasing wave of foreclosures that has reached into the "prime"...
Green Jobs To The Rescue! California Car Plant Reopening!
In March I wrote about the closing of the Toyota NUMMI plant in Fremont, California.. Today there is good news! The Green Manufacturing Revolution comes to the rescue, and Toyota is teaming up with electric car maker Tesla to reopen the plant and make all-electric...
Conservatives, Join the Call: Tell Congress to Televise the Financial Reform Conference
Here are the words they used for health care reform (or the buzzwords their consultants told them to use): "Secret"! "Backroom"! "Behind closed doors"! "Dealing"! Or, as one especially unsubtle pol put it, "secret backroom dealing"! These right-wing politicians and...
Six Key Fights For Wall Street Reform's Next Phase
Thursday night's passage of Wall Street reform by the U.S. Senate is an event to be celebrated, but several key issues remain in play as the House and Senate seek to iron out differences between their respective versions of the legislation. And while the final bill...
