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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...
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MORNING MESSAGE Laura Martin To Win Big, We Must Dream First November 2018’s blue wave handed Nevada Democrats full control over our state government for the first time in 27 years, and prompted some observers to imagine that we’re now “the state that liberal dreams...
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MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway Why Workers Like Victoria Need The PRO Act Now Those bundles of joy cost bundles of money, so Victoria Whipple, a quality control worker at Kumho Tire in Macon, Ga., had been working overtime to get ready for her new arrival. She also got...
Why Workers Like Victoria Need The PRO Act Now
Those bundles of joy cost bundles of money, so Victoria Whipple, a quality control worker at Kumho Tire in Macon, Ga., had been working overtime to get ready for her new arrival. She also got involved in union organizing at the plant, and management decided to teach...
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MORNING MESSAGE Colleen Kennedy Pennsylvania Is Ready For A Just, Clean-Energy Future Ever since 1859, when Edwin Drake ushered in the modern era’s addiction to fossil fuels when he struck “rock oil” in Titusville, Pennsylvania has been at the front lines of the...
