Obama
It’s complicated: President Obama and mass movement building
August 25, 2011The building of a mass movement on the scale of the 1930s or 1960s is a complicated process, despite the many-sided problems today's movement has the potential to eclipse them.
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Smiley and West’s Poverty Tour: A call for unconditional brotherhood
August 24, 2011Tavis Smiley and Cornel West brought the last stop of their "Poverty Tour: A Call to Conscience" to Memphis, Tennessee. The location was chosen in recognition of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s support for sanitation workers and...
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New federal immigration policy a step forward, supporters say
August 23, 2011Last week the Obama administration announced it would suspend deportation proceeding against thousands of undocumented immigrants that pose no serious threat to national security or public safety.
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Obama, the debt, and “shared sacrifice”
August 23, 2011"Shared sacrifice" has become a key talking point among many top politicians opposing the Republican Party's defense of the super-rich and refusal to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire.
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Detroit demands action on jobs
August 17, 2011Over 5,000 jobseekers showed up in Detroit for the second stop on the Congressional Black Caucus's "For the People" tour.
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