Video: Jane Harman Flees Stage During Debate With Marcy Winograd
To phonebank for Marcy Email Bill@Winogradforcongress.com.
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Elections
I Won't Vote for You If You Vote to Escalate War
By David Swanson
Congress is about to consider whether to vote for another $33 billion, not to continue but purely to escalate the level of war in Afghanistan by sending more troops and contractors. A No vote needs to be rewarded, and a Yes vote punished. So I am committing to vote for the reelection of any incumbent who votes No and against any who votes Yes. Here’s a whip list: http://defundwar.org
The peace movement shrank dramatically when a Democrat was elected president and the wars
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Josh Marshall Claims Perriello Is More Liberal Than Our District — Huh?
I’d love to see this backed up by specifying a single thing Perriello has done (I don’t mean thought in his heart of hearts, but done) that is more liberal than Virginia’s Fifth District.
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12 Leaders Cosponsor Amendment to Block Corporate Election Buying
By David Swanson
Congresswoman Donna Edwards’ bill proposing a Constitutional Amendment to deny corporations the free speech rights of persons in the form of unlimited election bribery spending has now been cosponsored by: John Conyers, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Jim McGovern, Keith Ellison, Chellie Pingree, Barbara Lee, Andre Carson, Jesse Jackson, Jr., Betty Sutton, Raul Grijalva and Ed Markey.
With the exception of Carson, these congress members are also all cosponsors of the Fair Elections
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When Woolsey Met Harman
As I sit waiting to fly out of LAX, secure in the knowledge that while most of our money is going into the greatest effort the world has ever seen to make most of its people hate a particular nation, everyone around me has had to take off their coats and shoes and display their toothpaste, except for the people living on the streets of Los Angeles who aren’t part of the airport traveling world, and — this ought to help things — Lynn Woolsey came to this city yesterday to support
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A Fable for Our Time
By David Swanson
Several years ago we started a community garden where I live. We worked at it quite energetically. We got more and more people involved. Much of the hardest work involved digging irrigation ditches to bring water to the soil.
We made progress slowly. We brought water to little corners of the garden. But the work was exhausting, and some people burned out and needed to take a break. Usually they’d be back within a year and working shoulder-to-shoulder with the rest of
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What Trumka SHOULD Threaten
Every election cycle, the labor movement alone dumps enough money into the corporate media through the campaigns and PACs that it could have instead created a new television network that would actually report the news all year long through every future election cycle. Rather than threatening to possibly not succeed in persuading working people to vote for corporate candidates, Trumka should threaten to defund the corporate media election bonanza and give us real news.
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Chat With NY Candidate for U.S. Senate Jonathan Tasini
On Saturday, Dec 5th, from noon to 2 p.m. ET, Jonathan Tasini will be the featured guest at Firedoglake.com, one of the leading blogs in the country that has been a vocal proponent for real health care reform. Firedoglake is launching a series of organizing forums to make sure we continue to build a national movement for Medicare For All. Saturday’s forum will be moderated by progressive political activist David Swanson.
You can take part at http://firedoglake.com
You can go ahead
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