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DeMoro: It's Not About A Paycheck
July 17, 2011The lobbyists and their pals in the media would have us believe the big corporations will leave this country if asked to pay their fair share. We've heard that story before.Richard Trumka: We Need to Focus on our Friends
July 9, 2011Even before the budget debate -- and the breathtakingly bad June jobs numbers -- AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka was warning fair-weather Democrats not to count on organized labor's blank check.Van Jones: Not Dreaming but Organizing
July 6, 2011Van Jones's new mobilization is collecting suggestions for rebuilding the American Dream.The (Non-Weiner) News That Matters: Jared Bernstein
June 11, 2011A pivotal moment on the path to economic disaster? Former vice presidential adviser Jared Bernstein talks about why he left the White House and more.Chris Hedges: The World As it Is
May 13, 2011"You can't sustain a democracy in an oligarchic state. The writers on Athenian democracy understood that 2000 years ago," says Chris Hedges, whose new book The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress explores the problems of a crumbling empire, inside and out.The Nurses Station: Jean Ross
May 12, 2011"The message of public vs. private, fight against each other, isn't working," says Jean Ross of the Minnesota Nurses Association, who joined the protests in Madison, Wisconsin at the Capitol building against Scott Walker's union-busting bill. Jean and the National Nurses United have been traveling and talking to their workers, hearing firsthand about the impact of the economy on nurses and their patients.Adam Hochschild: To End All Wars
May 11, 2011World War I was called "the war to end all wars," but nearly 100 years later, war is far from over. Adam Hochschild, co-founder of Mother Jones magazine, has written a new book looking back at that war and specifically, those who objected to and fought against the Great War.Sen. Bernie Sanders: We're All In This Together on Health Care
May 11, 2011"The USA has got to join the rest of the industrialized world and guarantee health care to everyone as a right, not a privilege," says Senator Bernie Sanders, who this week is introducing a new bill in Congress that would provide a single-payer health care system, administered at the state level, that would treat health care as a human right. Sanders' home state of Vermont is on its way to being the first state in the country with a single-payer plan, but he notes that all Americans should have that same right.The Story of Cap & Trade
May 10, 2011You may be familiar with Annie Leonard's The Story of Stuff Project, the illustrated, animated explainers that break down progressive issues in easy, fun ways. In the same style, she explains the story of Cap & Trade--how it works, who would benefit, who would suffer, and why real solutions to climate change are necessary.The F Word: Vermont Ever Closer to Single-Payer Healthcare
May 9, 2011The Senate and the House of Representatives agree: single-payer health care is the only way to provide real coverage for all. Insurance companies are never going to do the right thing and put people before profits, so the only option is to go around them, and politicians in both houses have voted to create a real health care system.
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