by Andrew Tripp | Mar 3, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Future of Work
Photo credit: Max Goldberg / Wikimedia Commons / cc One late summer evening in 2000, my home phone rang in Moretown, Vermont. “Can you please hold for Congressman Sanders?” the voice on the line asked. At the time, I had been doing what union organizers do when...
by Vijay Prashad | Mar 2, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Future of Work
Photo credit: goldmanprize.org On July 15, 2013, the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), led by Berta Cáceres Flores, went to protest the construction of a hydroelectric dam on the Gualcarque River. This river, in western...
by Steven Rosenfeld | Feb 28, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Photo credit: AFGE / flickr / cc Wisconsin has become early 2020’s Exhibit A for political fights surrounding the updating of statewide voter lists, where escalating court battles over conflicting law, procedures and underlying data could lead to removing thousands of...
by David Goodner | Feb 27, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
“I’m hearing my name mentioned a little bit tonight, I wonder why,” said Senator Bernie Sanders during the presidential candidates' debate in Charleston, South Carolina. “A lot of the issues we’ll be discussing tonight are issues that I raised four years ago.” ...
by Tim Wilkins | Feb 27, 2020 | Blog
MORNING MESSAGE David Goodner Why Bernie Sanders Is Winning “I’m hearing my name mentioned a little bit tonight, I wonder why,” said Senator Bernie Sanders said during the presidential candidates' debate in Charleston, South Carolina. “A lot of the issues we’ll be...
by Alexa Kasdan | Feb 26, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc As I watched the Democratic debate, like millions of other Americans, I noticed the smug look on Michael Bloomberg’s face when Sen. Elizabeth Warren and others challenged him about his treatment of women, stop-and-frisk and...
