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James Mumm & Bobby Tolbert: Make Wall Street Pay
March 9, 2011"We're seeing apopulist wave right now that's going to go through 2012," says James Mumm of National People's Action, who says he's seeing "big ideas and bold demands" from progressive groups around the country. National People's Action is part of a coalition that shut down a Bank of America this week and protested at the National Association of Attorney Generals conference, and then took the fight to John Boehner and Mitch McConnell's offices in Congress.Lena Taylor & Rosa Clemente, Make Wall Street Pay, and Philanthro-Feudalism
March 8, 2011"There is a time to fight and a time to unite, and now is the time to unite. If we divide now when we are trying to win the war, then I think we have fallen right into the divide and conquer mentality," says Wisconsin State Senator Lena Taylor, still in an undisclosed location outside of her state to delay a vote on Scott Walker's union-busting "budget repair" bill.Mac McClelland: BP Oil and the Obama Administration
June 3, 2010"It's absolutely a human rights crime," says Mac McClelland of the ongoing disaster on the Gulf Coast, where oil from BP's Deepwater Horizon rig continues to gush into the water despite multiple attempts to plug the leak. Attorney General Eric Holder has announced a criminal investigation into the circumstances surrounding the spill, as BP announced that it was done trying to plug the leak. All the cute code names ("top hat," "top kill") in the world haven't been able to stop the crisis, which in addition to killing 11 workers in the initial explosion, has shut down huge portions of the Gulf to fishing and other industries while devastating the wildlife.David Swanson, BP Oil Spill, and Christian Boltanski
June 2, 2010What do the attack by Israeli commandoes on the Freedom Flotilla, the BP oil disaster, aid to Haiti, Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal, and war in Afghanistan have in common? If you ask David Swanson, he'll remind you to follow the money. The U.S. taxpayer money, of course, which funds Israel's military and pays for war that enriches oil companies. Meanwhile, aid for Haiti and Don't Ask Don't Tell are added to supplemental funding for war in Afghanistan to convince members of Congress to vote for escalation.Haiti and New Orleans, Raj Patel and We Want What's Ours
January 21, 2010The comparisons between the earthquake in Haiti and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans have come fast and furious, but often from people who've watched both disasters through the clean-cut white lens of Anderson Cooper broadcasts. Meanwhile, people in Haiti--and those in the Gulf Coast still struggling four years later--need more than blame and comparisons. They need real solutions.The F Word: Coakley DID Define Herself. More's the Pity.
January 21, 2010Sexism certainly played a part in the way Coakley was treated in the senate race, and in the media. Her cold-fish personal style came in for no end of abuse. But it's sexist, too, to downplay her (barracuda) professional record. Before the President and the Dems take another dive to the right, it's at least worth asking: If the Dems had backed a real live, living-and-breathing progressive in the primaries, might things have turned out different?Vermont Candidate for Attorney General Announces Plans to Prosecute George W. Bush
September 22, 2008Shay Totten of Seven Days on Charlotte Dennett's recent announcement that, if elected, she will pursue the prosecution of George W. Bush.
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