by Bill Scher | Jul 17, 2008 | Blog
Individualistic "netroots" bloggers are at the forefront of new media technology, and are looking for ways to improve coordination and broad the reach of their ideas. Labor unions have been organizing and coordinating for decades, and are looking for ways to maximize...
by Leo Gerard | Jul 17, 2008 | Blog
With a motorcycle police escort, the United Steelworkers' "Toxic Trader" puppet lurched down Pennsylvania Avenue, past the White House, on his way to the Grand Hyatt Hotel on H Street in Washington, D.C. on July 9. That is where the Bush administration-backed Import...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 17, 2008 | Blog
Earlier this week, MoveOn's Tom Matzzie raised the alarm about the success the alliance of conservatives and Big Oil has had in convincing voters that massive amounts of new drilling for oil is essential to solve our energy crisis. And he was right to. As he pointed...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 16, 2008 | Blog
In a speech before the NAACP on Wednesday that displayed a remarkable but unsurprising detachment from the realities of the African-American community, it was nonetheless telling that Sen. John McCain, in reaching for a historical marker for his speech on equal...
by Bill Scher | Jul 16, 2008 | Blog
Most of us Campaign for America's Future bloggers are headed to Austin, Texas for the third annual Netroots Nation conference and what's sure to be the largest gathering of progressive bloggers to date. It's a notable moment for Netroots Nation as it changed its name...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 16, 2008 | Blog
This weekend, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, former head of the Goldman Sachs investment house, provided us with a perfect demonstration of Wall Street socialism. He announced that the Bush administration would seek congressional approval to bail out Fannie Mae and...
