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MORNING MESSAGE Tom Lewandowski Don’t Subsidize Companies That Silence Workers Will America finally grant its workers First Amendment rights? The Constitution guarantees “freedom of speech,” the right to “peaceably assemble,” and the right to petition for “a redress...
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MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway In Praise Of Scabby The Rat Giant balloons apparently terrify Peter Robb, Donald Trump’s hand-picked general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Big balloons shaped like rats, cats, pigs and cockroaches so frighten Robb...
In Praise Of Scabby The Rat
Giant balloons apparently terrify Peter Robb, who is Donald Trump’s hand-picked general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Big balloons shaped like rats, cats, pigs and cockroaches so frighten Robb that he has used his office to take extraordinary...
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MEDICARE FOR ALL Cherie Mortice Iowans Won’t Be Fooled: We Need #MedicareForAll Now Last week I took over the lobby of the Master Builders of Iowa in Des Moines with 30 other members of Iowa Citizens For Community Improvement Action, the largest progressive...
Iowans Won't Be Fooled: We Need #MedicareForAll Now
Last week I took over the lobby of the Master Builders of Iowa in Des Moines with 30 other members of Iowa Citizens For Community Improvement Action, the largest progressive organization in our state, with members in all of our 99 counties. Why, you might ask, did...
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MORNING MESSAGE Jeff Bryant Flint’s Crisis Reveals National Failure On School ‘Leadership’ Flint, Michigan, became a national poster child for incompetence and corruption when a small group of autocratic officials put in charge by the state’s governor made the...
Flint's Crisis Reveals National Failure On School 'Leadership'
Flint, Michigan, became a national poster child for incompetence and corruption when a small group of autocratic officials put in charge by the state’s governor made the infamous decision to supply lead-tainted water to the public. But long before Flint’s water...
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MORNING MESSAGE Sameena Mustafa Real People Will Lead the Way to #MedicareForAll Seniors chanting “Get out of the way!” as they hold cardboard tombstones might not seem like a challenge to the largest physicians’ group in the United States. But in 78-year-old Reggie...
Real People Will Lead the Way to #MedicareForAll
Seniors chanting “Get out of the way!” as they hold cardboard tombstones might not seem like a challenge to the largest physicians’ group in the United States. But in 78-year-old Reggie Griffin, the American Medical Association met their match. “The time is up for us...
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MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway Can Business Really Put People Before Profits? Last Monday, 181 corporate CEOs who belong to the Business Roundtable signed a pledge saying they think greed isn’t so good, after all. These CEOs declared that corporations must demonstrate...
