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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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COURAGE! Journalist Goldie Taylor outs a predator after 26 years.

Shoq — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:03:49 +0000

See update below

Last night…

journalist and commentator, GoldieTaylor told a remarkable story to @CNN’s Don Lemon. She was inspired to tell it by the grotesque story of accused predator, former Penn State football coach, Jerry Sandusky.

She not only told of the horror of her own abuse, and that of other high school cheerleader

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How the Occupy Movement’s General Assembly Works

Shoq — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 22:01:30 +0000

How the Occupy Movement's General Assembly Works

Agree or disagree with their concept and tactics, the Occupy protests are gaining momentum, and are going to be around, and growing, whether you, me or Goldman Sachs approves of them. So I think it's important that people know what their process is. It's really rather fascinating. Those familiar

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My Changing Thoughts About Occupy Wall Street

Shoq — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 06:41:26 +0000

See Update1

I am not going to go into my entire history of thinking about the Occupy Wall street movement (OWS). It’s too painful and annoying, but I want to get this out. It’s late, I am tired, and this will probably be filled with really bad typos and worse grammar. It’s going to go out

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The Pro Left Is Always Right (That’s Why They Get The Small Bucks)

Shoq — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:49:02 +0000

On the heels of some enthusiastic media response to President Obama’s aggressive posture on his new jobs plan, the professional left has been very busy pushing their latest vanity meme. Quick to seize whatever media narrative is likely to generate the most blog traffic and broadcast audiences, they lit up the Internets with self-congratulatory high-fives

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Grey Parker Educates Breitbart’s Dana Loesch: Because Someone Had To

Shoq — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 13:55:05 +0000

Grey Parker is one of those bloggers you stumble upon when someone in your stream says "you gotta read this." I did that some months ago, and ever since, I eagerly snap at his posts like a Venus Fly Trap that just got lucky. Today, Grey decided to respond to the execrable new Tokyo Rose

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Yo! Twitter & Tweetdeck Need Your Help to Fix A Problem

Shoq — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:59:57 +0000

The Problem

As you may have heard from my whining over the past few days, there is some kind of major fail with Twitter's API that is causing massive freezing and hangs in Tweetdeck Desktop for SOME users.

The problem is NOT just affecting Tweetdeck. Hootsuite has different symptoms (slow posts, etc), but it's all related. Many

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A Threatening Letter I Received After Post About David House

Shoq — Mon, 30 May 2011 05:47:56 +0000

New letters have arrived: See Updates

About two and half hours ago, I published this blog post about Dr. David M. House and my choice for anonymity.

At 10:47 (on May 29th), this email arrived, demonstrating nicely exactly why I

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Award Winning Story About Gitmo Torture Doesn’t Hold Water

Shoq — Mon, 23 May 2011 17:10:23 +0000

I get asked a lot why I persist in relentlessly calling on serious journalists to investigate the outrageous hyperbole and egregiously distorted facts about accused Wikileaks source, Bradley Manning.

Well, perhaps we now have a good example of why it mattered so much to me. It seems that a famous story about Gitmo torture deaths

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