Congress
ACORN sues U.S. gov’t over ban on funds
November 14, 2009"The problem for us is, this month it's ACORN, next month it's the NAACP, the month after that it's the ACLU," civil liberties attorney Bill Quigley said, explaining why the Center for Constituional Rights has filed...
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Activists say ‘thanks’ for health care reform
November 14, 2009Video: In Dallas, activists from MoveOn, Organizing for America, Jobs with Justice and the Progressive Center of Texas poured into the offices of Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson to thank her for voting for health care reform.
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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...
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Elections 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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Keep pushing
October 29, 2009The people are not buying the false notion that so-called "free market" is the answer to all their problems.
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