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  • Rolling Stone: Why Occupy Needs To Start Making Demands

    Rolling Stone: Why Occupy Needs To Start Making Demandsby Rick Perlstein It’s Occupy Season again. In St. Louis on March 15, and in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park on St. Patrick’s Day, Occupy Wall Street activists returned to the streets after a four-month hiatus and were bloodied in mass arrests. Two activists plan a “99% Spring” with the goal of training…


  • The New York Times: A Jobs Agenda, Anyone?

    The New York TimesEditorialAugust 15th, 2011 A Jobs Agenda, Anyone? In what can only be described as a triumph of bad policy and craven politics, Congress and the Obama administration have spent the year focused on budget cuts, as the economy has faltered and unemployment has worsened. Official unemployment is 9.1 percent, but it would…


  • Progress Illinois: Schakowsky: We Must Insure All Americans

    Progress Illinois: Schakowsky: We Must Insure All AmericansJanuary 18, 2011by Adam Doster Today in Washington, the U.S. House of Representatives will begin debating legislation that would repeal the new federal health care law. The body could pass that bill as early as tomorrow. And while U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez rightfully called the effort “political theater…