Tim Wheeler
LATEST ARTICLES BY Tim Wheeler
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Students tell Senators, “Pass jobs bill, Dream Act!”
June 11, 2010Greg Cendana, president of the United States Student Association (USSA) touched off cheers at the America's Future Now conference with his impassioned demand that Congress pass a $100 billion jobs bill and the "Dream Act."
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Rally at Treasury: Goldman Sachs owes us $13 billion
June 10, 2010"Young Turks" talk show host Cenk Uygur led protesters at the Treasury Department chanting: "Hey-hey, ho-ho, $13 billion's a lot of dough!" and "Goldman Sachs, we want it back!"
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Action on jobs key to victory in November
June 9, 2010"We don't have the luxury of all this whining and agonizing. We've got to turn the agonizing into organizing."
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Administration urged to work with Cuba on oil disaster, protecting Gulf
May 12, 2010"The Deepwater Horizon disaster underscores the need to be talking to Cuba about protecting our shared environment," the director of a U.S.-Cuba policy group says.
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MoveOn urges fight to “Take back America” from corporations
May 11, 2010SEQUIM, Wash. — More than 250 Olympic Peninsula residents crowded a MoveOn.org forum here the evening of May 4 to denounce corporate greed and its stranglehold on government.
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At Blue-Green Alliance meet, the cry is, “Good Jobs, Clean Air!”
May 10, 2010WASHINGTON - Truck-driver Porfirio Diaz brought the 3,500 delegates at the Good Jobs, Green Jobs national conference here to their feet May 5 with his harrowing story of the struggle he and his fellow drivers are...
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Cheney blasted for blocking oil well safety valve
May 4, 2010Women who have spent their lives fighting oil company pollution and profiteering denounced Dick Cheney and the company he once headed for their role in the oil spill spreading across the Gulf of Mexico.
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Gulf disaster spurs questions on drilling, Halliburton
May 3, 2010With an estimated 25,000 barrels of crude oil gushing each day from BP's Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico, an environmental group called for an immediate halt to offshore drilling.
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