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Help Reverse Susan G. Komen’s Decision About Funding Planned Parenthood

Shoq — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:35:26 +0000

Progressives MUST push back against this kind of political tampering or the Right wing will learn to apply it wherever they can. Please take a few minutes and help to reverse this obscene development.

Ways You Can Help: 1) SWAMP Komen's contact form with your protest messages.

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Occupy The Courts: A More Mature Approach To Change

Shoq — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:34:44 +0000

A frequent complaint of mine and others who have supported the Occupy Wall Street Movement (OWS) from its earliest days, is that it's not demonstrated much interest or skill at organizing the coalitions that have traditonally been the hallmark of progressive political change in America.

Merely suggesting that professional organizers become involved was often met with

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Stephen Colbert’s SuperPac attacks Mitt Romney as a Serial Killer

Shoq — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:52:46 +0000

Maybe we should have comedy writers do all our attack ads. The choice of Lithgow for the voice over was pure win.

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Back story from Washington Post/Plum Line

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So… What Has Obama Ever Done For Progressives?

Shoq — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:46:01 +0000

I have a few quibbles about this video, but over all, it's smashing!

We need 100 more like it. So get to work America! And please pass it on.

http://obamaachievements.org

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Melissa Harris-Perry to Host New Show on @MSNBC. Got A Good Name For It?

Shoq — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:53:47 +0000

In cased you missed the news, Melissa Harris-Perry will be the latest addition to the new, post-Olbermann line-up at @MSNBC. Her new two hour weekend show starts February 4th at 10am.

After seeing her tweet this heap of hilarity last night…

I’ve known Melissa since she first came on Twitter. My mother still chuckles that she

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What Labor and Progressives Can Learn from Occupy Wall Street

Shoq — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:35:02 +0000

I stumbled across this interview which Sarah Jaffe conducted with Steven Lerner, a traditional labor organizer, and was amazed I hadn’t noticed it when it dropped at Alternet. I’ve been looking for cogent essays that can put #OccupyWallStreet into perspective for progressives who still hear “Unions” or “labor movement,” and see Norma Rae standing on

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Some Essays That Every Progressive Should Read

Shoq — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:53:38 +0000

In the past year, and especially the past few weeks, a number of articles and videos have appeared that examine many of the key problems facing Progressivism in the United States, and by implication, the United States itself. I grow weary of tweeting them individually, so I thought I would combine them here. Where appropriate,

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Like Him or Not, This Ain’t The Same Old David Frum

Shoq — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:09:04 +0000

Three weeks ago, I tweeted this:

@shoq: Somewhere, deep inside @DavidFrum, there’s a useful progressive yearning to be free: j.mp/tcQXDr #p2

I was being a bit glib about it, but I was trying to express an intuition about a sense I’ve had about a slow and sometimes erratic transformation

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Keep Wall Street Occupied. Send Them Your Love Letters

Shoq — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:39:08 +0000

This is simply brilliant. I have three envelopes right in front of me. This kind of creative non-violence is just the kind of thing that generates lots of negative branding, and makes companies crazy. Will it change much? No, not from this alone. But the more of these stunts that we pull, the more expensive

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The Flat Tax vs Fair Tax – Links For Flat Heads

Shoq — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:46:54 +0000

People are using Flat Tax vs Fair Tax interchangeably. And as usual, our congenitally lazy media is happy to oblige any and all misunderstandings by virtue of not understanding it themselves. So here’s a few links that will help you have this annoying discussion with anyone, especially wingnuts who won’t understand any definition you give

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