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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...
In an earlier post, Questions about Progressive Congress’s Speakout event on July 23 in Seattle, I expressed confusion and perplexity about the purpose of a Speakout (“Congressional Listening Tour”) event in Seattle. But today...
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...
Like tens of thousands of other people across the country, I attended an American Dream meeting this weekend. Â The meetings were organized by MoveOn.org and supported by dozens of other liberal advocacy groups...
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. They’ve stolen elections; corrupted campaign financing; started illegal wars; tortured;Â held innocent prisoners without trial;Â invaded the privacy of Americans;Â politicized Justice; packed the Courts; reversed decades of...
Robert Greenwald’s hard-hitting video indictment of KBR and other military contractors was banned by Congress in 2007. It documents private employees making six figure salaries, staying in lavish resorts, and charging the US taxpayers...
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...
I  think all this talk about allowing Republicans in Ohio to gerrymander Dennis Kucinich out of Congress fails to consider the bigger picture. If we in the Peace Movement lose Dennis’s voice in Congress,...
Today, FIredoglake’s Jane Hamsher called Obama’s staunchest supporters “the dumbest motherfuckers in the world”. This is going too far. Way too far. Progressives can’t abandon Obama and his supporters and be successful in 2012....
