by Larry Cohen | Dec 14, 2016 | Blog
I first met Keith Ellison soon after he came to Congress in 2007. We were beginning the push for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act. Ten years ago it was already clear that collective bargaining rights in the US were at the bottom of global democracies and many...
by Larry Cohen | May 19, 2016 | Election 2016, Progressive Vision
In late July, delegates to the Democratic National Convention will gather in Philadelphia, not only to nominate a president and vice president but to debate a reform agenda for the party itself. Bernie Sanders’ call for a political revolution is centered on...
by Larry Cohen | May 2, 2016 | Blog
Bernie Sanders will campaign all the way up to the Democratic convention in Philadelphia to seek the nomination—and to continue building the “political revolution.” What is that political revolution, beyond his call to get the billionaires and corporations out and the...
by Larry Cohen | Feb 11, 2016 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
After seven years of secretive negotiations, the presidential primary has finally dragged the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) from the shadows. And just in time. The TPP is called a “trade” deal, but it’s really a deal to make trade more profitable for corporations...
by Larry Cohen | Feb 1, 2016 | Election 2016, Progressive Vision
This week, on my fifth trip to Iowa in recent months, once again I have been stunned by the increasing excitement of working women and men as they volunteer in droves and discuss Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in workplaces, union halls and...
