THERE’S A campaign not so quietly growing in volume, with Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh the loudest, that has Republicans having a hissy fit over Obama’s proposed tax increases for the wealthiest. Rush is using the Santa Claus line, a take off on O’Reilly’s people want stuff belch, but both are focused on making people [...]
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Supreme Court Rules Against SEIU
SCOTUSBLOG: The union dues case may be quite significant — there is not only the dissent but a narrower concurring opinion that says that “[t]he majority thus decides, for the very first time, that the First Amendment does require an opt-in system in some circumstances [for union dues]: the levying of a special assessment or [...]
An Occupied thought: “The People Who Created the Crisis Will Not Be the Ones That Come Up With a Solution”
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Looking at the history of activism, this is what we should expect will continue happening related to the Occupy movement: break-away groups, offshoots, and yes, co-opting, or simply using the momentum and attention gained by Occupiers. From Roll Call: Liberal Groups Take Up Occupy Mantle [...]
Corporate party opportunism
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. One indication of the “stuckness” of our Two Corporate Party System is the predictable efforts to use and/or co-opt trends or successes originating outside the strictly bipartisan fealty to the oligarchy; that fundamental allegiance to that one, or five or ten or whatever percent on [...]
Progressive Notes: Labor Goes to War over Gangs’ Cuts
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Labor goes to war over the Gangsters of Six criminal plan. The tone is changing fast. All I know now is labor must come out and announce no union help will come in 2012 to any Democrat who supports these kind of cuts. AFL-CIO’s Trumka damns [...]
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