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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?Changing the Jobs Debate, Hendrik Hertzberg, and Revisiting Maine
November 17, 2009The unemployment number officially hit double digits recently, though the actual truth is that it's been in double digits for a while. The Nation's John Nichols , author of Tragedy & Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy calls the unemployment crisis a "social, economic and political threat," writing of the growing sense of urgency within an administration facing a purported recovery that hasn't extended to everyday people. Economist Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and author of Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy agrees, noting that unemployment is still a crisis for the families affected, who struggle to pay the bills and put food on the table.The F Word: Real News Pales Next to Palin
November 17, 2009Palin Palin all the time, and never a peep of complaint. That's the long and short of the news cycle these past few day but there are just a few stories on which I'd like to see some follow up.The F Word: Olbermann Says There's No Deal
August 5, 2009Keith Olbermann wrote to me apropos my F Word on Monday. Following news of a corporation-brokered truce between MSNBC and FOX, I’d written that while the two networks pose as divided – and play up social divides for ratings - they actually stand united when it comes to corporate profits.The F Word: MSNBC and Fox: Posing Divided, United They Stand.
August 3, 2009The same media moguls who profit off our social divides sing corporate Kumbaya when their profits are in peril.
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