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October 2010
Americas Fiscal Choices Conference Highlights Urgent Need for More Stimulus
Americas Fiscal Choices Conference Highlights Urgent Need for More StimulusDemos, the Economic Policy Institute, the highly reliable Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and the Century Foundation sponsored a live webcast conference recently titled America's Fiscal Choices – Strengthening the Economy and Planning for the Future.
Republican Candidates "Pledge" Open Warfare on Working Families
Republican Party Senate candidates have pledged to protect tax loopholes for companies that outsource jobs, according to new media reports.
Gulf Oil Lingering on the Sea Floor
EarthTalk® From the Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: A friend of mine working on the Gulf Coast oil cleanup says that at least 50 percent of the loose oil is laying on the sea floor.
Indigenous Triqui Women, Fired Electrical Workers, Live on Mexico City Streets in Protest
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO 25SEPTEMBER10 - Indigenous Triqui women and their children protest against a wave of killing in their home town, the autonomous community of San Juan Copala in Oaxaca. The Triqui protestors are living in tents in the zocalo, the main plaza in the center of Mexico City, calling on the government to act to protect people in Oaxaca. Other Mexico City activists join them. While their parents meet, children play, sleep and eat in the tent in the zocalo, under the tables where their families make jewelry to sell in the streets.
Dems Come Alive!
...a follow-up from Michael MooreWednesday, October 6th, 2010Friends,Ok! We're halfway through the week and we're off to a great start.
West Va.: Manchin vs Raese – Another "Time of the Toad"
In 1972 Dalton Trumbo published his account of the "up is down" era of the US anti-communist inquisition in Hollywood in a short set of essays entitled "Time of the Toad." The title refers to an anecdote from Emile Zola during his famous defense of Dreyfus in the midst of the ugliest anti-semitic attacks where, when asked how he could tolerate such hatred and calumny, he replied: "each morning I eat a live toad – then I am assured nothing worse will ensue the remainder of the day."Progressives in West Virginia are indulging in toad in their efforts to elect current Governor Joe Manchin to fill Senator Robert Byrd's US Senate seat.
Glenn Beck Schemes to Split One Nation, Totally Revive McCarthyism
Glenn Beck directed his tea-party extremists to the website of the Young Communist League, the Communist Party USA's youth organization, in his Sept.
