Readers' Comments, Responses & Reactions1) Re: Against Despair: How Misreading History HarmsProgressivism - Jack Radey and Carl Davidson2) Why BP US Operations Should Be Nationalized -Now - John Case3) Re: The Democracy Charter - Jim Smith4) Re: Execution by Firing Squad - Charles in Berkeley5) Re: Two World Urban Forums, Two Worlds Apart -Charles [...]
REWIND - A Week of Quotes & CartoonsSUNDAYQuote of the DayJune 13, 2010'It is well within Mr. Obama's power to keep hisadministration and Congressional Democrats focused onwhat the economy needs: jobs and stimulus. Voters areanxious about the deficit. But the president needs totell them the truth - that without more spending theeconomy could remain weak for a very long time. [...]
US Social Forum to Target Long-Term Progressive GoalsBy Yana Kunichofft r u t h o u t | ReportJune 17, 2010http://www.truth-out.org/us-social-forum-target-long-term-progressive-goals60509"We are meeting at a moment of world history that is inmany ways unique - a moment that is ominous, but alsofull of hope. The most powerful state in history hasproclaimed, loud and clear, that it intends to rule theworld by force, the dimension in which it reignssupreme. Apart from the conventional bow to noble
Bloody Sunday is The Defining Story of the British Armyin IrelandBy Gerry AdamsGuardian (UK)June 16, 2010http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jun/16/bloody-sunday-british-armyBy 2.30pm the crowd at Free Derry corner had swollenand spread towards the Bloody Sunday memorial. TheBogside nestled below the city walls basking in warmsummer sunshine. Stewards shepherded members of theBloody Sunday families and other victims of statekillings, like the Ballymurphy families, to the frontof the mass of people. Eleven people - 10 men,
Berlin Bulletin: No. 11, 2010A Stalemate on the Rhine to a Quagmire in BerlinBy Victor GrossmanBerlinThings are really happening in Germany! Like manyothers, I predicted that the federal government, anunhappy coalition of right-wing Christian Democrats ledby Angela Merkel and her even more big-biz friendlyjunior partners, the FDP (Free Democrats) , would waitfor a key election in the giant state of North-RhineWestphalia on May 9th and then start beating the headsof all but the wealthy. That , no surprise, is exactly
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Against Despair: How Our Misreading of History HarmsProgressivism Todayby Michael TomaskyDemocracy: A Journal of IdeasIssue #17, Summer 2010http://www.democracyjournal.org/article.php?ID=6760On the day in late April when Barack Obama gave hisspeech at Cooper Union urging financial regulationreform, The Huffington Post, one of the most importantliberal websites we have, could hardly have made moreclear to its readers what it thought about Obama'sappeal to his audience. "Two Presidents, Two Messages
Imagine What Father's Day Is Like for All the Dads andSons in PrisonBy Stephen H. Phelps, AlterNetJune 18, 2010http://www.alternet.org/story/147224/We can only celebrate Father's Day correctly if weinclude all fathers -- black, white, brown, richand poor.For more than ten years, in every week or two, I havespent a couple of hours in conversation and reflectionwith men in the prisons at Attica or Sing Sing -- menwhose long years in prison have sharpened in them adesire for inner freedom not common in "the mass of
No Clear Path Forward After Jobs Bill Fails Again inSenateArthur Delaney06-17-10 10:40 PM Updated: 06-18-10 09:37 AMhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/17/senate-jobs-bill-fails-again_n_616732.htmlDeficit concerns once again trumped jobless aid in theSenate as Republicans, a lone Democrat and Sen. JoeLieberman (I-Conn.) on Thursday evening defeated anurgent bill to reauthorize expired several expireddomestic aid programs.The 56-to-40 vote left Democrats with no clear pathforward on legislation that, among other things, would
Execution by Firing Squad: 'I Don't Believe MurderJustifies Murder''My murdered uncle would not have wanted RonnieLee Gardner executed'As the Utah firing squad did its job, two womenembraced - both nieces, one of a victim, the otherof the killerEd Pilkington in Draper, Utahguardian.co.uk,Friday 18 June 2010 16.35 BSThttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/18/utah-execution-ronnie-lee-gardnerIn a darkened car park high on a hill overlooking thesparkling nightscape of Salt Lake City, two young women
1 Day 59 - Judgment Day - The Strife Aquatic2 Outernational, Tom Morello & Cuentame Present ‘Deportee'3 Sweet Honey in the Rock Protest Arizona Law4 Ugly Climate in Arizona Poisons College Commencement5 Fault Lines - In Deep Water: A Way of Life in PerilDay 59 - Judgment Day - The Strife Aquatic [...]
Senate Democrats are having trouble passing a spending bill that would, among other things, extend unemployment benefits and deliver much-needed financial aid to cash-starved states. Today the New York Times (6/18/10) explained the legislative logjam this way:
The New York Times (6/18/10) reports from Brussels that "the mood here was upbeat" as Estonia adopted the euro as its official currency. Despite the debt crisis, reporter James Kanter writes, "the euro remains among the strongest currencies in the world, and membership opens the door to a club with global influence. For small and unsure countries on the fringes of the European Union, it doesn't get much better."
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a statement yesterday that promised to "liberalize the system by which civilian goods enter Gaza." The announcement from Israel's security cabinet came after widespread international pressure on Israel following a deadly Israeli naval raid on a humanitarian flotilla trying to break the three-ye
Tidbits - June 17, 2010* What does the BP "escrow" deal really mean?* The Democracy Charter is now online (Michael Zweig)* Re: South Africa World Cup: Why Stadium Security GuardsAre on Strike (Jean Damu)* Re: In Sweden, Men Can Have It All (navva)* Re: Greed Explains the Disasters and the Lying Afterwards(Carol Hanisch)* Webinar - How to Rebuild the Labor Movement and Jumpstartthe Progressive Agenda (Amy Dean)* Sacramento City Council votes to boycott Arizona (DuaneCampbell) [...]
New Government in Trinidad and Tobago is of GreatSignificance for Entire Caribbean RegionCommunique on the New Political Situation in Trinidad AndTobago Following the May 24, 2010 General Elections[The emergence of the People's Partnership coalitiongovernment is a positive shift in the political landscape ofTrinidad and Tobago with great significance for the entireCaribbean region and western hemisphere. This analysisoffers some insight into the process, the politics and theprospects of the people's victory...] [...]
Two World Urban Forums, Two Worlds ApartBy Peter MarcuseProgressive Planning Spring 2010http://www.plannersnetwork.org/publications/2010_spring/marcuse.htmlTwo major world forums focused on urban issues - the U.N.-sponsored World Urban Forum (WUF) and a social-movement-sponsored Social Urban Forum (SUF) - took place in Rio deJaniero in the last week of March, 2010. The forums wereextremely different, almost existing in two differentworlds, but they tolerated each other; the contrasts andsimilarities were striking. [...]
Puerto Rican Student Strike - Victory and Context asRecurring Social Struggles in The Oldest Colony in the WorldMassive Strike at the University of Puerto Rico: TheInvisible and Recurring Social Struggles in The OldestColony in the Worldby Victor M Rodriguez DominguezJune 15, 2010 - updated June 17, 2010 at 11:34 AM [...]
Public Services are Vital, Stop War on Public Workers1. War on Public Workers (Amy Traub, The Nation)2. The `Blame the Teacher' Movement, and the Public-SectorUnion Crisis (Richard Greenwald, Working In These Times)==========War on Public Workersby Amy TraubThe Nation June 16, 2010This article appears in the July 5, 2010 edition of TheNation. [...]
