-----Labor Day history with Congressman Alan Grayson ( Read more... )

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By David DeGraw, Amped Status
Posted on September 18, 2011
Via Alternet

( Downward mobility, homelessness spreading to the middle class, 200,000 public employees laid off? Here are some frightening trends to keep an eye on. )

from Salon.com/War Room
Monday, Sep 12, 2011 09:01 ET
By Steve Fraser, Joshua B. Freeman
( A demobilized workforce has become the norm. Can the swelling number of jobless change that? )

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If only they had known what their unions were to become…

by Gaius Publius on 3/20/2011 11:45:00 PM


If it seems that all of this state-by-state union-stripping legislation is coordinated ... that's because it is coordinated. Also pre-written, gift-wrapped and hand-delivered.

Meet ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, a national right-wing group that writes "model" legislation ( Read more... )

by Gaius Publius on 3/13/2011 09:50:00 PM



The NLRB is the National Labor Relations Board. As in, Labor.

To the extent you think that Obama's a Democrat, you would call that his base. And if you're a fan of political non-interference in "independent agencies," in the story below the non-political move for the White House would be ( Read more... )

By now, everyone has heard about what is happening seemingly all at once in Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio. Republican governors are trying to ram "emergency" legislation through their senates and houses that would strip the most robust union demographic, public employees, of their collective bargaining rights ( Read more... )

by Gaius Publius on 3/03/2011 03:23:00 PM



This recent Rachel Maddow Show segment is one of the best multi-media essays I've seen. Rich in thought, beautifully written, beautifully structured, perfectly presented.

The headline - A new NBC-WSJ Poll from 3/2/11, composed of 36% conservatives and only 24% liberals, found the following ( Read more... )

by Gaius Publius on 2/25/2011 03:22:00 PM



Sometimes Paul Krugman is right on the money - with no "But Professor, you didn't go far enough" waiting in the wings. This time he goes far enough. He starts rhetorically, by saying maybe Wisconsin isn't just Cairo, but Baghdad under the heavy privatizing hand of L. Paul Bremer and the ( Read more... )