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Localize This! August 14-21, 2011 – Vashon Island 0

Localize This! August 14-21, 2011 – Vashon Island

Localize This! August 14-21, 2011 – Register TODAY! Join Activists & Organizers from Across the US for a Training That Will Transform Your Activism ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Attend all or part, but register TODAY at LocalizeThis.org...

Celebrate Medicare's 46th Birthday on July 30 in Seattle 0

Celebrate Medicare's 46th Birthday on July 30 in Seattle

Come Celebrate Medicare’s 46th Birthday — Remarkably Successful! No Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security! Profit-Driven Health Care is the Problem — Improved Medicare for All is the Solution! Give Medicare a Birthday...

Thoughts on yesterday's American Dream meeting 5

Thoughts on yesterday's American Dream meeting

Like tens of thousands of other people across the country, I attended an American Dream meeting this weekend.   The meetings were organized by MoveOn.org and supported by dozens of other liberal advocacy groups...

Defunding of the Peace Corps 2

Defunding of the Peace Corps

Every day another Republican Party politician or right-wing cable news pundit tells us that the government’s budget deficit is out of control and we have to cut Medicare, cut Social Security, cut health care,...

A criminal gang has taken power 0

A criminal gang has taken power

A criminal gang has taken power. They’ve stolen elections; corrupted campaign financing; started illegal wars; tortured;  held innocent prisoners without trial;  invaded the privacy of Americans;  politicized Justice; packed the Courts; reversed decades of...

Hiding Behind Personal Responsibility 0

Hiding Behind Personal Responsibility

I also could have  titled this “The Hypocrisy of Personal Responsibility”.   A few years ago I met a couple of right wingers in a certain setting. To protect the identities of these people I...