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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, 2011The 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.John Lewis, All Fracked Up and Stop the Bullying
October 8, 2010"We didn't have sponsors when we came to Washington in 1963. We didn't have sponsors when we marched from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. The young people that came to Mississippi in 1964, and three of my colleagues died, didn't have sponsors. We came out of the feeling that we wanted to redeem the soul of America."Hydrofracking for Natural Gas
July 22, 2010Hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in Pennsylvania and New York is a heated topic. Whose power? Whose water? And just how natural is natural gas anyway? On the search for cheap clean energy Natural Gas drililng has been sold as a solution. But is it? Affected communities are split. GRITtv's Sarah Friedland and Isabel Braverman went to the Delaware River Basin Commission's Headquarters in West Trenton, New Jersey to hear from residents, including actor Mark Ruffalo.David Kirby, Public Housing, and the Parties in Primaries
May 19, 2010Big business has been meddling with the Gulf Coast long before BP. Industrial runoffs from factory farms have invaded the gulf and fostering the growth of algae producing lifeless or “dead” zones of the water. Currently, there are six million public housing units for nine million people in need of public housing. Right to the City presents, We Call These Projects Homes, interviewing Anne Washington of Community Voices Heard about the need to empower public housing communities to express this need to the government. Are housing rights the new civil rights? Even though critics claim that housing shortages are crosses to bear, one can’t solve foreclosures without first investigating problems behind public housing and homelessness.The F Word: Where's the Party?
May 19, 2010The winners were challengers -- right and left - and those who organized on the ground.Jane Hamsher: Battles From the Right and Left
May 17, 2010Tuesday is the biggest primary day of the year! Activists from Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Oregon’s right and the left are fighting fierce and close battles that will be decided tomorrow. These campaigns include, but are not limited to the rivalry between corporate interest pandering Blanche Lincoln and the more progressive Bill Halter in Arkansas, Joe Sestak’s sudden, and competitive surge for the democratic senate seat in Pennsylvania.Jane Hamsher, Big Oil Politics, and Why Are Voters So Mad?
May 17, 2010Tuesday is the biggest primary day of the year! Activists from Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Oregon’s right and the left are fighting fierce and close battles that will be decided tomorrow. These campaigns include, but are not limited to the rivalry between corporate interest pandering Blanche Lincoln and the more progressive Bill Halter in Arkansas, Joe Sestak’s sudden, and competitive surge for the democratic senate seat in Pennsylvania. Many people have described the shrimpers and fisherpeople affected by the BP oil spill as unheard by the mass media. What many people don’t understand, is many of these people are literally unheard in the midsts of this crisis –a large proportion of the shrimper and fisherpeople demographic in the Gulf Coast are Vietnamese and do not speak English. As the infamous BP oil spill creates more environmental devastation in the Gulf Coast, we look towards politics, big oil, and regulations or lack thereof for reasons why this happened and how to prevent it in the future. However, Barack Obama continues to undermine the catastrophe as an anomaly and push for offshore drilling. In a system fraught with entangled political, economic, and environmental policy, how can we manage to procure safety rather than ignore it?Generation Obama: Where Are They Now?
November 4, 2009A year later, we round up a few of them and ask whether they're still involved. Lana Wilson, founder of Obamaerobics, Mike Jones, NYU sophomore and Obama 2008 campaign volunteer, and Ebonie Johnson Cooper, campaign organizer in Ohio and Pennsylvania join Elizabeth Mendez-Berry, who wrote about the Obama youth organizers and what they're up to now for an upcoming issue of The Nation, to talk about what they've done and how Obama changed their generation.
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