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We Can Breathe Life Back Into Democracy
Many people hate the word “politics.” They equate it with corruption, greed and the consolidation of unchecked power. And the U.S. Presidential race only magnifies these feelings and perceptions. Our sitting President, Donald Trump, has proven himself a master at...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Jeff Bryant Striking Teachers Are Fighting For Much More Than Paychecks While national news outlets hail the conclusion of a historic teacher strike in Chicago, another important story often overlooked by national reporters is the ongoing struggle to...
Striking Teachers Are Fighting For Much More Than Paychecks
While national news outlets hail the conclusion of a historic teacher strike in Chicago, another important story often overlooked by national reporters is the ongoing struggle to defend public education in the months that follow successful strikes. In Oakland,...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Sam Pizzigati Can Bloomberg Buy The White House? Michael Bloomberg’s first term as the mayor of New York began after the billionaire spent an incredible $74 million to get himself elected. He spent, in effect, $99 for every vote he received. Now...
Can Bloomberg Buy The White House?
Michael Bloomberg’s first term as the Republican mayor of New York began after the billionaire spent an incredible $74 million to get himself elected. He spent, in effect, $99 for every vote he received. Now Bloomberg appears to be on the verge of running — as a Democrat — for the White House. Could he possibly afford to replicate his lavish New York City campaign spending at the national level? The quick answer: absolutely.
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Ross Floyd Migrants Are Iowans, And We Stand With Them To his fellow migrants and to all of us at Iowa CCI, Jose Robinson Palacios is a hero. That’s because he saved the lives of dozens of children on his trek north from Honduras, carrying them one by...
Migrants Are Iowans, And We Stand With Them
How it would feel to walk fifty days to save your unborn child, only to be locked in a cell so cramped you and a dozen other pregnant women had to sleep standing up? WATCH: the full story of @JulianCastro escorting José Robinson to his ICE check-in. “If I...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Sean Broadbent, Cheng-Sim Lim, Sasha Rappaport What It Takes To Win Medicare For All In Los Angeles And Beyond On Tuesday, November 5th, the Los Angeles City Council voted ten to one in favor of a resolution in support of the Medicare for All Act of...
What It Takes To Win Medicare For All In Every Community
On Tuesday, November 5th, the Los Angeles City Council voted ten to one in favor of a resolution in support of H.R. 1384, the Medicare for All Act of 2019. Los Angeles is now the largest city in the United States to do so, joining Tampa, Detroit, Seattle, Chicago’s...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Adrienne Evans We Can Create The World We Want To Live In I’ll never forget one conversation I had in a little bar in Hagerman, about two hours east of where I grew up. I would start by saying, you know, “I just want to talk to you about some of these...
