Tag Archives: Progressive Spirit

Hightower: Lessons From Confronting The Global Goliath

Posted on September 3, 2015 by markt

A plucky (and smart!) grassroots coalition has pushed the dastardly secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership to the edge. By Jim Hightower Hightower Lowdown (August 2015) Progressive forces battling that God-awful gob of global corporate gobbledygook, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, encountered an odd problem: … Continue reading →

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Fellow Democratic Worker Bees—To Defeat The Corporate Dems All We Gotta’ Do Is Stand Up And Not Play The Game

Posted on August 31, 2015 by dennis

The only way we will ever get rid —or the attention — of these corporate democrats is to make their pro corporate votes sting. Time to get mad as a hornet. And Buzz awhile. Buzzzzzzzzzz By Dennis Brault The Daily Call (8/31/15) … Continue reading →

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We Need Activists To Relentlessly Pressure Politicians To Make Them Better & Keep ’em Honest

Posted on August 16, 2015 by markt

Politics, real politics as opposed to the game show that most of the media perpetuates, involves pressure and it is the response to that pressure that gives us the measure of candidates. (Editor’s Note: Nichols is writing about one of … Continue reading →

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Time For Half-Measures Is Past: Why Liberals Have To Be Radicals

Posted on July 21, 2015 by markt

By Robert Kuttner The Huffington Post (7/19/15) Just about nothing being proposed in mainstream politics is radical enough to fix what ails the economy. Consider everything that is destroying the life chances of ordinary people: Young adults are staggered by … Continue reading →

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Elizabeth Warren Tells Progressives: ‘Our Values Are America’s Values’

Posted on July 20, 2015 by markt

Senator tells conference that the liberal movement is winning the battle for public opinion.  By Ned Resnikoff Al Jazeera America (7/18/15) Speaking to a packed hall of supporters on Friday, progressive hero Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., declared that liberals are … Continue reading →

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Why The 99 Percent Keeps Losing, And What It Will Take To Win Again

Posted on March 25, 2015 by markt

This vicious circle — really a downward spiral about depressed expectations and diminished participation — can be reversed, as it has been reversed at moments in the American past.   By Robert Kuttner The Huffington Post (3/22/15) Our current political … Continue reading →

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Chris Hedges: “Rebellion in the face of tyranny is its own justification”

Posted on March 20, 2015 by dennis

(Meme by Dennis Brault, 2015) “And in these sustained acts of resistance we make it possible to reclaim a future for the generations that come after us, a future that the corporate state, if not overthrown, will obliterate.”   By … Continue reading →

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Never Forget: Worker Rights Were Hard Earned At The Point Of The Bayonets Of The Corporate States

Posted on March 6, 2015 by markt

  Mark L. Taylor The Daily Call (3/6/15) Photo above is from the Lawrence Textile Strike — also known as the “Bread and Roses” strike — in 1912. Every right and perk you enjoy at work from overtime pay to … Continue reading →

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Can They Speak To The Politically Homeless? Wisconsin Progressives Size Up Political Landscape After Union Defeats

Posted on March 3, 2015 by markt

The scaffolding is there to build something different, something built on sheer people power.   By Zoe Sullivan The Guardian (3/1/15) “The solidarity sing-a-long has maintained free speech rights at the capitol,” Nicole Desautels said, as she stood behind singers … Continue reading →

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Giving American Families The Finger…

Posted on January 30, 2015 by markt

(Daily Call Cartoon by Mark L. Taylor, 2015. Open source. Free to reprint with link to www.thedailycall.org)

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Bernie Sanders Got Republicans To Make His Argument For Universal Health Care

Posted on January 25, 2015 by markt

“From your lips to God’s ear.”   By Michael McAuliff The Huffington Post (1/23/15) WASHINGTON — In their ongoing efforts to roll back or hamstring Obamacare, Republicans probably weren’t hoping that the first Senate hearing on the matter this year … Continue reading →

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Wake-Up, Dems! Here’s Your 2016 Platform: Top 20 Progressive Issues From Million Vote Survey

Posted on January 21, 2015 by markt

After a million votes, the Progressive Change Institute has released the Top 20 ideas from the Big Ideas Project. Now, a national poll is on these ideas is under way, and over 30 members of Congress will consider them soon. … Continue reading →

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There’s A Message Here, Democrats: Populist Proposals Won Big In 2014

Posted on January 7, 2015 by dennis

By Jim Hightower (1/6/15) While last year’s voters put a pack of reactionaries in charge of the new Congress, let’s not forget that bigger majorities of the same electorate leapt at the chance to say “YES” to an array of … Continue reading →

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Sen. Bernie Sanders: Agenda For A New Year — Fight For Our Progressive Vision & Future

Posted on December 31, 2014 by markt

I have absolute confidence that we can turn this country around and become the kind of vital, prosperous and fair-minded democracy that so many want. By Sen. Bernie Sanders The Huffington Post (12/29/14) As I look ahead to this coming … Continue reading →

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Will It Take Rebellion? Democratic Party Has Become A Corporate, Focus-Grouped, Wall Street-Leaning Party — It’s Time Progressives Take It Back

Posted on December 30, 2014 by dennis

Want politicians to get the courage of their convictions? It’s simple. First, get some convictions.  Courage will follow.   By Bill Curry AlterNet (12/26/14) The Democrats’ conduct since the midterm debacle is as sad and sorry as the campaign that … Continue reading →

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