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Rep. Cory Mason, Sarah Schulman & Omar Barghouti, and CEO Pay
April 11, 2011
"If people don't have trust and confidence in their elections, it's really hard to have confidence in the democracy writ large," says Wisconsin State Representative Cory Mason, noting the "gross incompetence or malice" involved in the sudden appearance, a day and a half after the polls closed, of 7500 votes for the conservative candidate in his state's Supreme Court race.
The F Word: Shareholders Fight Back as Democrats Compromise
April 11, 2011
The ink on the compromise that kept the government open—barely--isn't even dry and they're already talking about the next round of cuts in Washington.
Danny Glover: World's Workers Fighting Back
April 1, 2011
"If these actions are allowed to stand in these places, there's going to be an assault on public workers around this nation. They are the testing ground to see how people are going to respond to this. And people are responding gloriously, whether it was Indianapolis, whether it was in Madison, they came out. Even those workers who may have been exempt from this takeover, even those workers came out," says actor and humanitarian Danny Glover.
Single-Payer in Vermont, Danny Glover, and Occupation in Albany
March 31, 2011
The single-payer health care plan that recently passed the Vermont state assembly "is truly an example of democracy at its finest. It is the people of Vermont banding together as human beings and as a community," according to Mary Gerisch of the Health Care is a Human Right campaign of the Vermont Workers Center. Organizing around human rights framework, Mary notes, helped unite the people around a universal plan that leaves no one out.
The F Word: Bringing the Budget Protests to New York
March 31, 2011
From Wisconsin to Indiana to right here in New York—the state capitol in Albany Wednesday night echoed as well with chants of “This is what democracy looks like” as protesters occupied the halls to protest budget cuts to education.
Phyllis Bennis, James Carroll, and a Stay in Wisconsin
March 21, 2011
"The only restriction says there shall be no foreign occupation force, but as we know from Iraq and Afghanistan, you can have an awful lot of troops on the ground fighting and not call it an occupation," says Phyllis Bennis, explaining the United Nations resolution that led a coalition of troops to start bombing Libya this weekend.
The F Word: Stopping Walker's Steamroller In Wisconsin
March 21, 2011
The night that the Wisconsin Senate Republicans got together and forced through Scott Walker's union-busting bill, many Wisconsinites cried foul. The state's open-meetings law required more notice unless there was a true emergency.
Sen. Sherrod Brown: Energized Workers Fighting Back
March 11, 2011
"It's an ideological mission they have in Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, they're going after an ideological agenda," says Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio on the latest moves by Republicans to bust unions, defund Planned Parenthood, and restrict women's right to abortion. He points out that neither Ohio governor John Kasich nor Wisconsin governor Scott Walker campaigned on any of these issues--and that the people of his state and around the country are ready to fight back.
Jesse Jackson, Sherrod Brown, Maya Wiley & General Strike
March 10, 2011
"The idea of fiscal crisis is the pretext for a real power grab," says Jesse Jackson of the latest news from Wisconsin: Scott Walker and the State Senate Republicans separated the union-busting portion of the "budget repair" bill and passed it without a quorum.
Karen Nussbaum: Wisconsin a Teach-In for America
March 3, 2011
"We find that working people are desperate to be part of something bigger, they know their standard of living is declining, they are now finding inspiration from the demonstrations in Wisconsin, "says Karen Nussbaum of Working America, an AFL-CIO community affiliate that supports and organizes non-union working people.

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