by Jeff Bryant | Jul 15, 2016 | Blog, Education
Earlier this week my colleague Richard Eskow reported on the impact the populist progressive movement led by Bernie Sanders and others is having on the Democratic Party platform to be voted on later this month at the party’s national convention in Philadelphia. Eskow...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 14, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
In the three years since George Zimmerman was acquitted in the murder of Trayvon Martin and the Black Live Matter movement was born, so many more have been lost even as so much progress was made. Three years ago today, full of despair, I posted my feelings on my...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 14, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Recent headlines might make us think the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is "dead" or at least at "death's door." We can hope. But the Wall Street, giant multinational corporations, many Republicans in Congress and unfortunately the Obama administration are still...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 14, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Some people say that the Democratic Party doesn't really stand for anything. Sen. Bernie Sanders pushed and pushed as a Democratic presidential candidate, and has achieved results that could change that. The 2016 Democratic Party platform is a very progressive policy...
by Libero Della Piana | Jul 14, 2016 | Blog, Democracy
President Obama gave yet another historic speech Wednesday at the mass memorial service for the five Dallas police officers gunned down during a protest of the police killings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La., and Philando Castile in St. Paul, Minn. In a way few...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 13, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Progressive Vision
More than 400,000 Americans signed a petition calling on Donald Trump to release his tax returns. On Tuesday, progressive activists delivered those signatures to Trump Tower. Progressive activists showed up at Donald Trump’s doorstep on Tuesday with a simple demand...
