by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 10, 2014 | Democracy, Progressive Vision
[fve]http://youtu.be/entactmHPEY[/fve] The scene was Raleigh, N.C., but for many of the people who were there the message and its impact was intended to be national: There is a growing populist resistance to the conservative extremist agenda, and the tens of thousands...
by Roger Hickey | Feb 10, 2014 | Democracy, Progressive Vision
I was honored to be part of a historic and joyful event on Saturday, February 8, as an estimated 75,000 to 100,000 North Carolinians streamed into their capital city to from all over their state to participate in a historic Moral March on Raleigh. As they were filling...
by Richard Long | Feb 5, 2014 | Democracy
If you follow politics, you know the names Koch, Adelson, American Crossroads and Priorities USA Action. If you don’t know the names, you know their tools, the fearmongering ads that purport that voting for this candidate or another will cause the downfall of the...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 28, 2014 | Democracy, Economy
Just about everything Americans need to know about the surge of income inequality is contained in the 43-page indictment last week of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. The Republican governor and his wife are accused of a sleazy exchange — taking pricey gifts like a...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 22, 2014 | Democracy, Progressive Vision
The organizer of a February 8 "moral march" on Raleigh, N.C. says he wants the largest mass demonstration in the South since the 1965 Selma to Montgomery, Ala., civil right march to be a loud rebuke against Tea-Party extremism in state legislatures around the country....
by Richard Eskow | Jan 22, 2014 | Democracy
When the President of the United States delivers his State of the Union message next week, he'll be speaking to the wealthiest Congress in history. What does it mean for a representative democracy when most of its representatives are insulated from the real-world...
