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Ellen Bravo, Antonia Juhasz & Tracie Washington, and Tax Day
April 19, 2011"What's at stake is whether assaults on working people will prevail," says Ellen Bravo, who fought with the Family Values @ Work Consortium to get paid sick leave for Milwaukee's workers only to see it banned in the state legislature--and the ban broadened to include the entire state. Meanwhile, to heighten the already tense situation in that state, Sarah Palin was there this weekend to speak to a Tea Party crowd.The F Word: Demonizing Taxes, Heightening Inequality
April 18, 2011Today is Tax Day in the US, and that's almost universally greeted with groans and complaints. That tax word's been so effectively demonized that it may be there's no coming back. Is it time for a new word?Laura Flanders on The Ed Show, February 22
February 23, 2011"A revival is happening here," Laura noted on MSNBC's Ed Show Tuesday night from Columbus, Ohio, to discuss the protests she's seen this week in Madison, Columbus, and around the country. "There is a thin blue union line between poverty and the middle class for Americans," Laura says.Laura on MSNBC's Ed Show
January 25, 2011Laura joins Ed Schultz on MSNBC to discuss Eric Cantor's refusal to repudiate birthers in the House Republican caucus.Laura Flanders on The Ed Show, 12/7
December 8, 2010Laura on MSNBC's Ed Show discussing Obama, the Republican prospects for 2012, and more.Laura Flanders on The Ed Show, 11/22
November 24, 2010Laura Flanders discusses Michelle Bachmann and others' smears of Obama, calling him "anti-American," with Ed Schultz on MSNBC's The Ed Show.Laura Flanders on MSNBC's Ed Show, November 9
November 10, 2010Laura Flanders and Karen Hanretty debate "shutting down the government" with Ed Schultz on Tuesday, November 9. "It's not the attention-getting threats to shut government down that Democrats should be worried about; it's what the GOP extremists will do while they're at work that should have Americans scared to death" says Flanders. They also discuss New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's spending and cutting regime.Greg Mitchell: Money Media Miss the Point (Again)
November 9, 2010The big story last week, of course, was the elections: Republicans take back the House! Nearly $5 billion spent on campaigns across the country--most of it from faceless corporate donors! Yet instead, by the weekend we were left with a different story, when Keith Olbermann was suspended from MSNBC for donating money to three Democratic candidates. Not a peep, of course, about the amount that MSNBC's parent company, GE, gave.Greg Mitchell, Prop 23 in California, and Haiti
November 8, 2010The big story last week, of course, was the elections: Republicans take back the House! Nearly $5 billion spent on campaigns across the country--most of it from faceless corporate donors! Yet instead, by the weekend we were left with a different story, when Keith Olbermann was suspended from MSNBC for donating money to three Democratic candidates. Not a peep, of course, about the amount that MSNBC's parent company, GE, gave.Melissa Harris-Lacewell: Countering Election Spin
September 14, 2010"We need to be covering the left as much as we cover, with anxiety, the right," notes Nation contributor and Princeton professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell. The lack of coverage of progressive movements, protests, and actions in the face of a loud, angry and well-funded right wing can be disheartening, but we know they are out there, and in some cases fighting hard to keep a Tea Party backed Republican party from taking back seats in Congress during the midterms.
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