by Miles Mogulescu | Oct 25, 2016 | Blog
Last spring I visited with progressive lion Tom Hayden for the last time at his comfortable, but modest, west Los Angeles home. We chatted about the elections and the future of the progressive and anti-war movements, even as he was recovering from a stroke. As a...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 25, 2016 | Blog
"An order that creates a culture of legal compliance could have a transformative impact on American industry." George Faraday, Legal and Policy Director at Good Jobs Nation Truck drivers and warehouse workers working for federal contractors at the Port of Los Angeles...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 25, 2016 | Blog
“Make me.” That’s how Donald Trump responded during the last debate when Hillary Clinton pointed out that he failed to use American steel to construct the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. Trump used Chinese steel. So he created jobs for Chinese workers. Not American...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 25, 2016 | Blog
There is a push underway for a huge corporate tax break from the next administration. Multinational corporations owe more than $720 billion in taxes on profits stashed in tax havens. They are proposing to bring those profits back if the government lets them pay only a...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 24, 2016 | Blog
“Join us, join us,” a police-battered Tom Hayden shouted to passing delegates from the 1968 Democratic Convention. Hayden’s life was a test of character. He saw his colleagues and heroes gunned down, assassinated, or shunned. He endured the privations of jail and the...
by O.J. Semans | Oct 24, 2016 | Blog
Many of the over 1 million Native Americans living on reservations do not have reasonable voting access. Some have to travel tens of miles, sometimes more than 100 miles, to vote, when most people live a few miles from a polling station. Add to that longstanding...
