What John McCain Doesn't Get: Change is on the American Mind
People are ready for a big change away from Bush-McCain politics, according to a new article from Yes! Magazine, titled 'Our Own Agenda: 10 Policies for a Better America,' which compiles the results of a number of polls and surveys on a host of issues.
Barack Obama Delivers Concrete Proposals for Change
Speaking before a crowd of close to 80,000 people at Denver's Invesco Field and accepting the nomination of the Democratic Party for president, Barack Obama criticized John McCain for supporting and seeking to continue the Bush administration's policies.
The Erratic Blockade of Cuba
'For almost half a century, the United States has imposed a trade embargo against Cuba. And yet it sometimes seems barely visible,' says an article published Aug. 14, 2008, in the printed edition of the British weekly The Economist.
US Working Families under Republicans: Working Harder, Sinking Faster
According to the latest Census Bureau data released just this week, since the last economic recession in 2001, 4.4 million more people have been added to the poverty rolls. More than one and a half million of them have been children.
Hillary Clinton: 'the reasons I support Barack Obama'
His speech didn't make prime time TV from the Democratic National Convention, but his story and the promise of how his story could be changed did. Robin Golden is a UAW member who is losing his job as an inspector at Lear Corp., an auto supplier based in Michigan.
New Web Site Reveals McCain to be 'Worse than Bush'
Recent polls show that a growing number of voters see a potential McCain administration as pushing the same policies as George W. Bush. But a new Web site, WorseThanBush.org, created by people at the Change to Win labor federation highlights key items on McCain's agenda that would make him a worse president than Bush.
Editorial: A Response to Investors.com and Right-wing Media Bias
A recent Investors.com online editorial, 'Finding Friends On the Far, Far Left,' of August 20, 2008, provides a welcome opportunity for PoliticalAffairs.net to remind our readers of where we stand on the hot-button issues in this election.
Remembering Gene Upshaw
The last thirty years haven't exactly been kind to the labor movement. It's been a story of slow death, with decades of falling union numbers, stagnant wages and disappearing pensions--all signs pointing toward total oblivion. It's been the era as former UAW President Doug Fraser put so aptly, 'The one sided class war.'
Obama Pledges Investment and Economic Stimulus
Speaking to a crowd of over 1,000 members of the Laborers' union (LIUNA) via satellite this week, Barack Obama declared that he would be the 'build America President.' Obama pledged an investment of $60 billion to create new jobs and fend off economic recession by repairing and rebuilding the country's infrastructure.
60,000 Demand Wal-Mart Electioneering Investigation
The labor rights organization, American Rights at Work, released a video this week of workers turning in a petition signed by more than 60,000 people in support of a formal complaint filed last week against apparently illegal electioneering by the multinational retail giant Wal-Mart.
