Creating a More Just America
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My good friend Ed Martin just sent me an important article from Reuters reporter Chrystia Freeland analyzing a poll that shows more and more Americans fear falling out of the middle class. The middle class
Inequality & Racism in the wake of May Day 2013
Yesterday was May Day and Thom Hartmann built his show on RT TV around the global worker’s and union’s celebration that is May Day. His longest panel was AFL-CIO economist Bill Spriggs, Working America’s
Staggering New Statistics on Inequality in America
TODAY ONLY!! I’m giving away the eBook edition of Playing Bigger Than You Are: A Life in Organizing FOR FREE! Get It Now I am so sick of supposedly smart economists wondering how the
Growing Incarceration & Our Budget Crisis
We have noted in this space before that one consequence of the destruction of any freedom to form unions and stagnant wages for 35 years is an 800% percent increase in incarceration. The pro-reform Drug
Protect The Big Three!
The radical rightwinger Paul Ryan has submitted his budget. 60% of his cuts come from healthcare for the poor. Did you ever notice that any of former Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan’s budgets
The Deficit Fever
All of Washington is in a helluva back and forth stir about the federal budget. I swear Radical rightwing Republicans would rather see the Republic destroyed than to make the rich pay anything near their
4 Reasons to SAVE Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security!
With the silly, stupid sequester still not fully felt, word is that President Obama and some group of Republican Members of Congress will meet soon to try to negotiate the so-called “Grand Bargain.” Everyone
Save the USPS!
One of the stupidest ideas out of a bushel basket of stupid ideas from Mitch McConnell and John Boehner and their crowd of radical rightwinger teabaggers is their plan to slowly eviscerate and slowly
The Imperative of Change
In my blog Change is Coming, I provided ideas for a new and mostly complete agenda for America’s unions to fight our way out of the crisis that workers, our unions and country are
Sacrificing to Protect Democracy
Watching Lyndon Johnson making a speech for passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Johnson’s statement in the course of the speech “We Shall Overcome” still moves me. The Supreme Court of a truly
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