At a time when so many are so clear that the current system is not working—what might? Is it already happening?
Iraq veteran and former Wall Street banker Derek McGee—now an active participant in the Occupy Movement—said on Countdown with Keith Olbermann that he felt Occupy protesters were being “oppressed by the police.”
In contrast to Obama’s go-easy approach, officials like Eric Schneiderman and Martha Coakley are insisting on vigorous prosecution of bankers.
What US progressives can learn from British efforts to fight inequality.
Even as Republican presidential contenders stake out extreme anti-labor positions in New Hampshire, unions in that state have succeeded in blocking an anti-union “Right-to-Work” law. It‘s the latest big win for labor at the state level.
National Nurses United and the AFL-CIO have been urging the White House to stop opposing a global financial transactions tax. It’s working.
Boulder votes against corporate personhood, and then they vote to replace their private power supplier with a municipal utility.
The 99 percent have been footing the bill for too long. It’s time for the financial industry to pick up its own tab.
A powerful, bipartisan coalition of deficit hawks has manufactured a center-right consensus that dominates the Beltway.