by Richard Eskow | Apr 1, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
Oh, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats. Your party's symbol's an ass - a word that was on John Boehner's lips this week, and maybe some other people's too. Here's how it went down: First House Republicans proposed $32 billion in cuts. The President offered $6.5 billion....
by Leo Gerard | Apr 1, 2011 | Blog, Minimum Wage
The nation’s greedy corporations and insatiable wealthy are fattening themselves on workers. There’s no trickle down. It’s the opposite; the rich have been sucking the economic lifeblood from the middle class for decades. When reckless Wall Street banksters get...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 1, 2011 | Blog
"We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live." —Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speech in Memphis, Tenn., April 3, 1968 On April 4, we will be called on not to merely remember that Dr....
by Bill Scher | Apr 1, 2011 | Blog
On April 4, "We Are One" community-based actions will be taking place all over the country, in honor of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination while trying to organize sanitation workers in Memphis, and in solidarity with working people all over America facing...
by Mary Bottari | Apr 1, 2011 | Blog
Wisconsin continues to spin out of control and a constitutional crisis looms as a judge this week again ordered Walker’s administration to halt implementation of his bill stripping Wisconsin public workers of collective bargaining rights. Walker's team moved to...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 1, 2011 | Blog
By now you have heard that the Majority Leader Eric Cantor said that Social Security "cannot exist if we want America to be what we want America to be." At least they are out in the open about their plans. So Campaign for America's Future wants to do something about...
