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MORNING MESSAGE James Mumm Shutting Things Down To Open Things Up Have you heard about the life-affirming, healing power of direct action? You might need it. You may think direct action — the kind of protest that directly confronts power and shifts it from the hands...
Shutting Things Down To Open Things Up
Have you heard about the life-affirming, healing power of direct action? You might need it. You may think direct action — the kind of protest that directly confronts power and shifts it from the hands of the few to those of the many — is something you do when...
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MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway American Democracy is Not A Charity Case America’s very democracy is dying because billionaires amass ever more wealth—and thus ever more political power—while everyone else struggles with less. Less money. But, just as importantly, less...
American Democracy is Not a Charity Case
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, America’s fourth-richest person, finally admitted that no one deserves to accumulate as much wealth as he has. But hey, he says, at least he plans to give a lot of his $69.6 billion net worth to charity. That’s nice. But it’s not enough...
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MORNING MESSAGE Judith LeBlanc Tribal Sovereignty And The Struggle For Democracy In 2020 In Indian Country, we are concerned about the future. From an indigenous point of view, we link our ancestors and the past with the future by how we walk in the present, how we...
Tribal Sovereignty And The Struggle For Democracy In 2020
Judith LeBlanc, Director of the Native Organizers Alliance (NOA), helped organize the recent Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux, City, Iowa. This was the first-ever presidential forum convened by Native communities. She sat down with Organizing...
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MORNING MESSAGE Negin Owliaei No One Should Have to Bargain For Health Care Nearly 50,000 members of the United Auto Workers are on strike, demanding that General Motors pay them their fair share of the billions in profits the company raked in last year. The response...
No One Should Have to Bargain For Health Care
Nearly 50,000 members of the United Auto Workers are on strike, demanding that General Motors pay them their fair share of the billions in profits the company raked in last year. The response from General Motors was shocking. The automaker, which accepted billions in...
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MORNING MESSAGE Theo Wuest Don’t Leave Equality To The Supreme Court Are you a woman? Imagine if you were fired for wearing a skirt to work. Are you a man? Imagine getting fired for not wearing a skirt to work. This sounds ridiculous, right? It sounds unfair. But for...
Don't Leave Equality To The Supreme Court
Are you a woman? Imagine if you were fired for wearing a skirt to work. Are you a man? Imagine getting fired for not wearing a skirt to work. This sounds ridiculous, right? It sounds unfair. But for many Americans, it’s a reality we must face every day. Take the case...
