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MORNING MESSAGE Andrew Tripp I Know Firsthand Why Unions Should Endorse Bernie One late summer evening in 2000, my home phone rang in Moretown, Vermont. “Can you please hold for Congressman Sanders?” the voice on the line asked. At the time, I had been doing what...
I Know Firsthand Why Unions Should Endorse Bernie
Photo credit: Max Goldberg / Wikimedia Commons / cc One late summer evening in 2000, my home phone rang in Moretown, Vermont. “Can you please hold for Congressman Sanders?” the voice on the line asked. At the time, I had been doing what union organizers do when...
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MORNING MESSAGE Vijay Prasad Why We Must Remember Berta Cáceres On March 2, 2016, gunmen broke into the home of Berta Cáceres Flores and assassinated her. Cáceres led the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), which opposed...
Why We Must Remember Berta Cáceres
Photo credit: goldmanprize.org On July 15, 2013, the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), led by Berta Cáceres Flores, went to protest the construction of a hydroelectric dam on the Gualcarque River. This river, in western...
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MORNING MESSAGE Steven Rosenfeld Wisconsin's Voter Purge Is Coming To Your State Wisconsin has become early 2020’s Exhibit A for political fights surrounding the updating of statewide voter lists, where escalating court battles over conflicting law, procedures and...
Wisconsin's Voter Purge Is Coming To Your State
Photo credit: AFGE / flickr / cc Wisconsin has become early 2020’s Exhibit A for political fights surrounding the updating of statewide voter lists, where escalating court battles over conflicting law, procedures and underlying data could lead to removing thousands of...
Why Bernie Sanders Is Winning
“I’m hearing my name mentioned a little bit tonight, I wonder why,” said Senator Bernie Sanders during the presidential candidates' debate in Charleston, South Carolina. “A lot of the issues we’ll be discussing tonight are issues that I raised four years ago.” ...
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MORNING MESSAGE David Goodner Why Bernie Sanders Is Winning “I’m hearing my name mentioned a little bit tonight, I wonder why,” said Senator Bernie Sanders said during the presidential candidates' debate in Charleston, South Carolina. “A lot of the issues we’ll be...
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MORNING MESSAGE Alexa Kasdan What Mike Bloomberg Will Never Understand As I watched the Democratic debate, like millions of other Americans I noticed the smug look on Michael Bloomberg’s face when Sen. Elizabeth Warren and others challenged him about his treatment of...
What Mike Bloomberg Will Never Understand
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc As I watched the Democratic debate, like millions of other Americans, I noticed the smug look on Michael Bloomberg’s face when Sen. Elizabeth Warren and others challenged him about his treatment of women, stop-and-frisk and...
