by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 13, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. laid down this marker during his "I Have A Dream" speech in 1963: In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 13, 2012 | Blog
What would Martin Luther King do if he were alive today? Monday is the Martin Luther Kind national holiday, when we mark his birth and reflect on the ongoing movement for civil rights. human rights and economic opportunity and equality. King worked hard to help poor,...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 8, 2011 | Blog
Thursday's National Day Of Action looks like it will be really big. People will be out doing things all over the country. There will be all kinds of events that say, "We are the 99%!" My favorite is people will be gathering in front of various decaying bridges, to...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 28, 2011 | Blog
It's like the old-timers always said: Don't quit before the miracle happens. While the Arab Spring showed that people can still accomplish the impossible, Our political debate was frozen in corporate cynicism. Now everything has changed. For the United States, spring...
by Mary Bottari | Nov 2, 2011 | Blog
After two tours of duty in Iraq, 24-year-old Wisconsin native Scott Olsen managed to escape unscathed and with seven medals for valor. But Olsen was critically injured in an Occupy Oakland march last week by a police projectile. See video here. According to...
