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Lessons of the UNITE HERE-SEIU Deal

Randy Shaw — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:00:57 +0000

Randy Shaw: The SEIU-UNITE HERE conflict also shows the peril of veteran labor leaders quietly deferring to destructive decisions by top union officials, a lesson that was supposed to have been...

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Main Effect of the WikiLeaks Documents Is Political

Ivan Eland — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:00:53 +0000

Ivan Eland: So the only thing the WikiLeaks documents reveal is how persistent the post-9/11 war and nation-building fever continues to be among the foreign policy elite—even in the face of the...

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BP’s Final Lesson

Robert Reich — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:00:41 +0000

Robert Reich: If BP emerges from this debacle fatter and happier than anyone imagined a few months ago, whatever happened to the idea of corporate accountability? Does this mean any giant corporation...

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Courage Awards: What You Missed

Wendy Block — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:00:37 +0000

Wendy Block: If you missed Valley Democrats United's most spectacular Badge of Courage luncheon yet, you didn't learn how one person - including you -- can revolutionize progressive communication.

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Angry Left Needs Hugs and Kisses

Jules Siegel — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:00:19 +0000

Jules Siegel: The angry left presumes that the president is in full control of the government, when he's obviously not. Even George W. Bush learned that and he was a Republican.

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Restrictionists Confounded by Increased Deportations and the Administration’s Defense of the Constitution

Michele Waslin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:00:01 +0000

Michele Waslin: ICE expects to deport about 400,000 people this fiscal year, which is nearly 10 percent more than the Bush administration’s 2008 total and 25 percent more than were deported in 2007.

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Saving Water, One Drop at a Time

Steve Hochstadt — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:00:43 +0000

Steve Hochstadt: Americans use more water per capita than any other nation. Every time we flush the toilet, we use as much water as the average person in the developing world employs for an entire...

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The Center-Not-Right

Tina Dupuy — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:00:42 +0000

Tina Dupuy: A right-of-center nation would have never embraced the extremely liberal notion of public retirement insurance for its citizens. And government-funded health care for seniors like...

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SB-1070 Sponsor: Sanction Mormon Church for Undocumented Stand

Andrea Christina Nill — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:00:30 +0000

Andrea Nill: State Senator Russell Pearce rejected the Mormon church’s teaching of compassion and helping those in need and stated that he would support sanctioning or criminalizing fellow Mormons...

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Room for Progressives In Today’s Democratic Party?

Gene Rothman — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:00:17 +0000

Gene Rothman: Regrettably, at this time, there is virtually no Left to counter the Tea Party and other right-wing forces: not a labor movement, a women’s movement, a peace movement—no counterattack...

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State of Denial: After the Big Leak, Spinning for War

Norman Solomon — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:00:10 +0000

Norman Soloman: And if, these days, “U.S. troops in the field” are not as inclined to express “frustration at having to fight a war without sufficient resources,” the latest boosts of Pentagon...

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SEIU-UNITE HERE Settlement Reached

Randy Shaw — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:00:10 +0000

Randy Shaw: After an 18-month battle that began with SEIU believing it could affect a hostile takeover of its once close union ally, the two unions reached a settlement yesterday almost entirely on...

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Turning the Tables at Netroots Nation: ICE Checkpoint Forces Participants to Think about Profiling

Will Coley — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:00:44 +0000

Will Coley: About ten of us, including several undocumented DREAM students, wore navy blue shirts and affixed paper ICE badges and patches to our hats and shirts. We stopped anyone who looked...

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Are Teachers and Democrats Headed for Divorce?

Shamus Cooke — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:00:32 +0000

Shamus Cooke: The Democrats continue on the road to corporate-inspired charter schools, using the tried and true method of “stronger teacher evaluations” to undermine “underperforming” schools and...

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America’s Cheesiest Charttoppers

Michael Sigman — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:00:30 +0000

Michael Sigman: Revisiting some of the greatest records that never made the pop charts was a heavenly experience. But like so many of life's pleasures, it was backed with an annoying flip side:...

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Baseball Justice

Peter Dreier — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:00:29 +0000

Peter Dreier: Major League Baseball's corporate mentality, its failure to deal with widespread drug use, and its decline in popularity among America's youth (more of whom now play soccer than Little...

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The Great Decoupling of Corporate Profits from Jobs

Robert Reich — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:00:11 +0000

Robert Reich: Higher corporate profits no longer lead to higher employment. We’re witnessing a great decoupling of company profits from jobs.

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Harry Reid’s Senate: Where Progressive Legislation Goes to Die

Paul Hogarth — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:00:01 +0000

Paul Hogarth: For years, House Democrats have joked that House Republicans are the “opposition” but the Senate is the “enemy” – and it’s easy to understand why.

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Why AIDS Activists Are Asking United Nations To Investigate Obama’s Trade Policy

Matthew Kavanagh — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:00:54 +0000

Matthew Kavanagh: If we drive up the cost of drugs, fewer people get them and we waste hundreds of millions of dollars in US-taxpayer dollars to boot. President Obama promised to support the rights...

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NAACP President Ben Jealous Should Resign for Assisting in the Sherrod Assault

Jonathan David Farley — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:00:49 +0000

Jonathan David Farley: His normally sluggish organization, which took three months even to discuss what to do, if anything, when a Life Member was receiving death threats from Klan supporters,...

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