by Terrance Heath | Feb 24, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
In a post about Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's bid to strip public employee unions of collective bargaining — the most important and effective tool for protecting workers — Van Jones wrote: If a foreign power conspired to inflict this much damage on America's first...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 24, 2011 | Blog
Do you want to show your support for working people? Do you want to show your opposition to tax cuts for the rich forcing cuts in the the things government does for We, the People? Here is your chance. There are SAVE THE AMERICAN DREAM rallies planned in all 50 states...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 24, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
Sometimes it's worth looking at current events through the eyes of a historian chronicling the end of an age, or those of a district attorney in a time of corruption. Come to think of it, the two perspectives aren't all that different. However you look at it, calling...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 23, 2011 | Blog
What is the real agenda of the budget-cutters? Are they really trying to bring the country back from the edge of financial ruin? Or did they bring about the appearance of a borrowing crisis to create a public panic that enables them to impose "solutions" that change...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 23, 2011 | Blog
VIDEO: Why Others Should Join The Wisconsin Protests Campaign for America's Future co-director Robert Borosage joins FireDogLake editor Jane Hamsher and Wisconsin AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer Stephanie Bloomingdale on Cenk Uygur's show on MSNBC February 22. "It's now...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 22, 2011 | Blog
Dig into the numbers of the latest Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University poll on the recession and race and it's easy to see how the Obama administration and congressional Democrats have blown it on winning the allegiance of the white working...
