by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 30, 2012 | Blog
Two Occupy movement volunteers, a Chicago community organizer, an Atlanta health care activist and a crusader against "prison-based gerrymandering" have been nominated for the annual Maria Leavey Tribute Award, which honors an unsung progressive hero. The deserving...
by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 29, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Bits and bytes would be doing a lot more to help make our lives less nasty, brutish, and short if we shared wealth as routinely as bandwidth. From San Francisco, a new lesson in that reality. A brick factory makes 10,000 bricks a day. But then the factory happens on a...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 28, 2012 | Blog
Today's false equivalence award goes to Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein for their Washington Post op-ed titled, Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem. This false equivalence award is noteworthy, as the authors claim to be writing about false...
by Roger Hickey | Apr 27, 2012 | Blog
House Republicans are trying to snooker the public with a vote today, around 12 PM ET, on a sham student loan bill. We need you to call House switchboard at 202-225-3121 NOW, ask for your representative and say "Vote No." The Republican bill is only designed to give...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 27, 2012 | Blog
Mitt Romney says government workers are paid too well and in general government is a bad thing. But he wants to run it. Romney made his fortune by buying companies, laying off the workers, and keeping the money they were making for himself. He apparently thinks...
