by Jacob Swenson-Lengyel | Aug 22, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
The first real conversation I had with Sarah Jaffe was on a school bus heading out for a series of direct actions — and a few brave arrests — in Washington, DC with 1,000 community leaders from National People’s Action and the National Domestic Workers Alliance. It...
by Mark Weisbrot | Aug 22, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
How much is President Obama willing to harm the Democratic Party in order to win approval for the deeply unpopular Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) “trade” agreement? We may soon find out. On Tuesday, Politico broke the story that the White House will be “making an...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 22, 2016 | Blog
The 200,000-member American Postal Workers Union (APWU) is holding its biennial convention in Orlando this week. As part of that convention, there will be a rally to publicize opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The rally will take place Tuesday, August...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 22, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
The summer ends with a growing lament among progressives. Tom Frank’s cutting voice sums it up: "And so ends the great populist uprising of our time, fizzling out pathetically in the mud and the bigotry stirred up by a third-rate would-be caudillo named Donald J...
by Rae Breaux | Aug 22, 2016 | Blog, Climate
With Amanda Devecka-Rinear, New Jersey Organizing Project, and Gary Zuckett, West Virginia Citizen Action Group. The record-breaking floods in Louisiana are the latest example of what many working people already know all too well: climate change has already begun, and...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 19, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Donald Trump’s announcement of his new campaign team completes the process of bringing white supremacists and white nationalists from the extreme fringe into the mainstream of American conservatism and the GOP, which began when Donald Trump started his campaign. If...
