This Fall’s Election is Not about Policies and Programs – It’s About Right and Wrong
By Robert Creamer
There is a tendency among people who spend their lives working to promote policy positions, Members of Congress, Congressional staffs, and even the media to discuss political issues in terms of public policy.
I don’t mean simply […]
Leo W. Gerard
International President, United Steelworkers
September 3, 2010
On Labor Day, Work to Save the Middle Class
This Labor Day feels gloomy. It’s a celebration of work when there is not enough of it, a day off when too many desperately seek a day on.
America has commemorated two Labor Days since […]
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Rich Trumka is talking this Labor Day about the need for Economic Patriotism. It’s a message/theme we think will resonate–certainly among working people and the millions of jobless workers–and one that certainly can apply in many ways: EG: Corporations acting anti-patriotic by moving jobs out of this country. (In the much-discussed New York Times artilcle […]
Stimulating Hypocrisy: 114 Lawmakers Block Recovery While Taking Credit For Its Success
http://thinkprogress.org/touting-recovery-opposed/
This is a very detailed, well-documented list. Please look for your member of Congress and publicize what you find in your local media, community and blogs.
Delaware’s Castle features prominently in this list.
www.americansunitedforchange.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Lauren Weiner, 202-470-5870
August 9, 2010 […]
FOR RELEASE: August 5, 2010
CONTACT: Emily Spain (202) 224-2441
Carper Votes for Funding to Protect Education and First Responder Jobs, Provide Medicaid Assistance to States
WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) voted with the majority of his colleagues in supporting the Federal Medicaid Assistance Percentage (FMAP) and Education Jobs Fund amendment to H.R. 1586.
The Senate […]
Is the Republican Victory Plan Another Great Depression?
It seems like the Republicans in Congress have decided that sabotaging economic recovery and employment growth is their best tactic for electoral gains in the November elections. Indications of this plan have been around since the Democratic victories in 2008. It seems that all doubt about facilitating the […]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Lauren Weiner, 202-470-5870
July 29, 2010 […]
The Tea Party “Catch 22”
The Tea Party movement has started to come unglued over a series of internal contradictions that amount to an identity crisis. The Tea Party is caught in a “Catch 22” position that has largely been ignored by the corporate mainstream media.
Just this morning I watched a local PBS show where a […]
DEMS, GOP READING SAME POLL
House Democrats gathered on yesterday to discuss the results of a national survey on the deficit and manufacturing that House Republicans were passing around late last week. Digging into the survey, which was paid for by the Alliance for American Manufacturing and done by Dem Mark Mellman and GOPer Whit […]