Blog Archive: March, 2011

You've Got To See This Video From Wisconsin!

March 13, 2011

You just have to watch this video of a farmer named Tony Schultz in Wisconsin talking to the crowd about what is happening at his local schools and to his own community because of the governor's tax-cuts-for-corporations, budget-cuts-for-the-people budget: more »

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CEO Pay Bashing, Tea Party-Style

By Sam Pizzigati

March 13, 2011

Has Jim DeMint, the right-wing senator leading the assault on federal domestic spending, finally gone too far? His corporate executive benefactors may soon come to think so.

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Van Jones: A Ladder To Climb

By Dave Johnson

March 11, 2011

Van Jones gave an inspirational closing talk at yesterday's the Summit On Jobs & America's Future in Washington D.C. Beginning by talking about the Tea Party movement and how that movement really points a path for progressives to feel encouraged instead of discouraged. Seriously.

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No Decency

By Terrance Heath

March 11, 2011

I was as the Summit on Jobs & America's Future yesterday, so I didn't get to hear Keith Ellison's testimony at Rep. Peter King's hearing on "Islamic radicalization." Instead, I heard Ellison speak eloquently at the summit about the the "jobs and economic justice tour" of America, which the congressional Progressive Caucus will launch this summer as an alternative to the "so be it" agenda of the GOP.

In the midst of anemic job creation, an unemployment crisis that's deeper than any one in the media wants to admit, and a jobs deficit of 28 million threatening our economic future, Rep. Eillison — along with Rep. George Miller — had to leave capitol hill to find people in Washington who were talking about jobs.

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Progressive Breakfast

By Bill Scher

March 11, 2011

On the menu this morning:

MORNING MESSAGE: The Deluded Budget Debate

Jobs Summit Upends Beltway Obsession With Austerity

GOP Refuses To Budge On Budget

Passage Of Wisconsin Law Only The Beginning

Presidential Presser On Energy Prices

House Pushes End Of Mortgage Aid

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Wisconsin Subterfuge Violates American Democratic Values

By Leo Gerard

March 11, 2011

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A Guide To A Deluded Budget Debate

By Robert Borosage

March 11, 2011

The following was originally published in Politico

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MadisonWorld: A Future Where Corporations Have Human Rights ... And Humans Don't

By Richard (RJ) Eskow

March 11, 2011

Today we saw state troopers in Madison tearing peaceful protesters out of their own capitol after the Senate voted to deprive them of their rights. Video footage of that event should come with a label: Brought to you by the State of Wisconsin, a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries.

Right now Wisconsin is serving as the prototype for United States 2.0, a newly reconstituted nation where corporations have all rights of personhood without any of the responsibilities - and people have all the duties of personhood without any of the rights.

Welcome to your future. They're preparing it for you right now in America's heartland. more »

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LA Mayor Villaraigosa Discusses America Fast Forward At Jobs Summit

By Dave Johnson

March 10, 2011

Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor of Los Angeles, talked today at the Summit On Jobs & America's Future in Washington D.C. Villaraigosa described the bipartisan America Fast Forward initiative from the National Conference of Mayors. more »

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