by Terrance Heath | Oct 18, 2014 | Progressive Vision
America must stop “following tragedy with embarrassment” and pass the End Racial Profiling Act, before the next city that’s “one dead black teenager away from burning to the ground” catches fire. “How many more Michael Browns will we have?” Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.)...
by Larry Cohen | Oct 16, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision, Trade
At the deportation center in San Pedro Sula, planes land with over 100 Hondurans a day, returned from our border prisons to their native land. They are mostly young men, shackled hands and legs, who have harrowing tales of days in what they call the “ice box,” the US...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 16, 2014 | Progressive Vision
[fve]http://youtu.be/iWk3LhWTyfM[/fve] New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is a powerful, new populist voice in American politics. Last year, he swept to a stunning upset victory in New York’s mayoral race, issuing a populist indictment of the “tale of two cities,” one...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 15, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
On Tuesday night, progressive leaders and activists celebrated champions whose work shows that progressive leadership and governance improve the lives of hard-working Americans. Campaign For America's Future co-director Roger Hickey opened the Celebrating America's...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 15, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
[fve]http://www.youtu.be/l4NVzv0zGxg[/fve] Interview with Patrick Flavin, principal author of the study "Assessing the Impact of the Size and Scope of Government on Human Well-Being," conducted by host of "The Zero Hour" Richard Eskow Forget about feeling “like a room...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 14, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Ferguson; ISIS; Ebola; accelerating climate change; growing inequality; deepening poverty; an election likely to worsen, not reduce paralysis – pessimism of the intellect is easy these days; optimism of the will takes some work. Tonight at its annual Gala, the...
