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10 Ways to Support the Occupy Movement

Published on Sunday, October 16, 2011 by YES! Magazine 10 Ways to Support the Occupy Movement There are many things you can do to be part of this growing movement—and only some of them involve sleeping outside. by Sarah van Gelder The #OccupyWallStreet movement continues to spread with more than...

Posted by admin in Reposted from CommonDreams.org on 06 24th, 2011 | No Comments

What Happened to Media Coverage of Fukushima? by Anne Landman

Published on Friday, June 24, 2011 by PR Watch While the U.S. media has been occupied with Anthony Weiner, the Republican presidential candidates and Bristol Palin’s memoir, coverage of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster has practially fallen off the map. Poor mainstream...

Posted by admin in Articles/Commentary by Members, Reposted from CommonDreams.org on 11 25th, 2010 | No Comments

Giving Thanks to Citizens and Grass-Roots Progressives 11/25 by Jim Hightower

Published on Wednesday, November 24, 2010 by Creators.com This Thanksgiving, even progressive Americans can find plenty of progress for which we can be grateful.Let’s start with the Girl Scouts of America. When news broke that the national organization for girls had fallen off its ethical pony,...

Posted by admin in Articles/Commentary by Members, Reposted from CommonDreams.org on 11 20th, 2010 | No Comments

4 Common Myths about the War on Terrorism 11/20 by Reese Erlich

Published on Friday, November 19, 2010 by CommonDreams.org I’m finishing up a 25-city book tour that took me from New York and Chicago to Elizabethtown, PA, and Spearfish, SD. I met with college students, farmers and laid-off workers. Most people in the US now oppose the wars in Afghanistan...

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A Sit-In Success Story 11/20

Published on Friday, November 19, 2010 by YES! Magazine Parents in a low-income Chicago neighborhood endured a 43-day sit-in to get a library for their children. by Micah Uetricht Whittier Elementary School is a lot like other public schools in low-income areas f Chicago. Located in the Mexican...

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Progressives Must Push Back From Below by Norman Solomon 11/18

Published on Thursday, November 18, 2010 by CommonDreams.org Obama’s wooing of “economic royalists” is recipe for disaster and represents indefensible status quo In his first term, President Franklin Roosevelt denounced “the economic royalists.” He drew the line against the...

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Executive Excess by Jim Hightower 10/6

Published on Wednesday, October 6, 2010 by Creators Syndicate Look out, they’re angry. Foaming-at-the-mouth angry. And they’re lashing out, saying they won’t take it anymore. As one of their leaders angrily cried, “It’s a war.” Indeed — they’re on the...

Posted by admin in Articles/Commentary by Members, Reposted from CommonDreams.org on 09 14th, 2010 | No Comments

Job Growth, Not GDP Growth by Dave Lindorff 9/13

Published on Monday, September 13, 2010 by ThisCan’tBeHappening.net Obama’s Rose-Colored Glasses: Growth Has Little or Nothing to Do with Jobs or Reducing Poverty by Dave Lindorff Faced with the bad, but hardly surprising news, that poverty has increased in the US on his watch, to a...

Posted by admin in Articles/Commentary by Members, Reposted from CommonDreams.org on 08 18th, 2010 | No Comments

Corporate America Speaking Out by Jim Hightower

Published on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 by CommonDreams.org Congressional Republicans have spent the first two years of the Obama administration as the rock-solid party of “no,” “uh-uh,” “no way,” “forget about it,” “nothing doing,” “we’re-against-it-and-we’ll-kill-it.”...

Posted by admin in Articles/Commentary by Members, Reposted from CommonDreams.org on 06 16th, 2010 | No Comments

BP Is a Corporate Criminal by Jim Hightower 6/16

Gosh, how quickly things turn. One day, you’re a strutting peacock — the next day, you’re just another gasping, oil-covered bird. In early April, BP was strutting about in full corporate splendor, showing off the $9 billion in profits that it had soaked up in just the first three months...

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