Obama
Keep hope alive, build a transformative movement
April 10, 2013The election of Obama in 2008 and his reelection in 2012 gave millions hope that this awful situation would change for the better. But that hope hasn't been fully realized.
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Obama: “Shame on us if we’ve forgotten Newtown”
March 28, 2013"Shame on us if we've forgotten," Obama said. "I haven't forgotten those kids."
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AFL-CIO to squeeze Senate Dems on NLRB
February 26, 2013"We have decided," said Larry Cohen, president of CWA, "that in today's America it is unacceptable that we cannot fill the position on a labor board designed to protect the rights of American workers."
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Obama, coalition politics, and the struggle for reforms
February 14, 2013Coalition politics and reform struggles are anything but pure; they are, by nature, a polyglot; an uneasy amalgamation of disparate forces.
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Union leaders wish Obama had come out for right to organize
February 14, 2013Union leaders see the weakening of union rights and the drop in union membership numbers as key factors in the backward movement of the middle class.
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