Congress
Difficult victory
November 11, 2009Overcoming the intense lobbying efforts of the health insurance-industrial complex and their far-right "tea party" stormtroopers, which spent some $640,000 a day opposing health care reform, the American people and their organizations, especially their unions, mobilized...
Read moreElections yield both good news and bad
November 4, 2009The early news was not good for liberals and progressives, but it got better as the night wore on.
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October 29, 2009The people are not buying the false notion that so-called "free market" is the answer to all their problems.
Read moreTide turns on health care reform
October 27, 2009The announcement by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that the public option will reach the Senate floor was greeted by labor and other leaders as proof that the tide has turned in favor of health care...
Read moreUnions confront insurers as they plot to block reform
October 24, 2009Insurance company CEOs meeting in Washington Oct. 22 hid from 600 angry trade unionists who tried to get them to listen to people victimized by their companies.
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