by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 23, 2015 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Khalil Bendib, OtherWords The work of repairing the racial fissures that broke wide open in Ferguson, Missouri last year goes beyond the shooting death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown. It also goes beyond ending the practices highlighted in a Justice Department...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 20, 2015 | People's Budget, Progressive Vision
A new progressive platform for "Building a Movement for People and the Planet" was published this week by the Campaign for America's Future and National People's Action. That platform lays out 12 key planks of a progressive agenda that the two organizations expect to...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 19, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
[fve]https://youtu.be/B0xUvTpGTps[/fve] I took on the "TPP Tradenado" this past weekend when I joined my OurFuture.org colleague Richard Eskow on his radio show, The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow. The topic was trade, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Trade Promotion...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 19, 2015 | Blog, People's Budget, Progressive Vision
Last week's post, Will Media Continue Its Blackout Of Progressive Budget? made a simple point: the media just will not let the public know that there is a progressive budget alternative and what it includes. I asked, "Next week, progressives in Congress will release...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 19, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, People's Budget
It's not often that I find myself agreeing with a congressional Republican on fiscal matters, but it's hard to argue with a recent statement from Rep. Rob Woodall (R-Ga.) of the House Budget Committee. “A budget is a moral document,” said the Georgia Republican. “It...
by Miya Pontes | Mar 18, 2015 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
A trade agreement created to benefit American corporations is being fast-tracked in secret, leaving economists and labor activists concerned. And today, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka took those concerns to an audience of economic and foreign-policy elites at the...
