Submitted by libbyliberal on Thu, 10/04/2012 - 6:54am
Jill Stein is a “citizen-politician” who refuses to behave herself.
Dr. Stein refuses to stay in the campaigning bull-shit bubble.
She doesn’t suffer fools or play the crony let’s-screw-the-99% game.
Someone on a website recently called Jill Stein “the best presidential candidate you’ll never hear about”.
Jill Stein is a Boston physician (Harvard educated) and veteran activist and candidate with the Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party
. Read below the fold...
Submitted by libbyliberal on Fri, 06/22/2012 - 3:39am
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Submitted by danps on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 5:19am
Part 1.
Part 2.
Yesterday I looked at Bruce Murphy's article about the Wisconsin recall, and how Murphy thought Democrats and unions brought defeat on themselves. There is one point he made that fits in with a purely political analysis, which is what I'm focusing on today. He writes: "Had Tom Barrett — or any Democrat — offered an alternative, some approach that would eliminate the abuse of public benefits without crushing unions, while protecting the many public workers who are not overpaid, this could have carried the day against Walker." Read below the fold...
Submitted by danps on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 8:55pm
Part 1.
Since the recall was run as a conventional political campaign, instead of one grounded in the turmoil of last year, it's fair to ask how the latter might have looked. Doug Henwood offered these thoughts:
Suppose instead that the unions had supported a popular campaign - media, door knocking, phone calling - to agitate, educate, and organize on the importance of the labor movement to the maintenance of living standards? If they'd made an argument, broadly and repeatedly, that Walker's agenda was an attack on the wages and benefits of the majority of the population? That it was designed to remove organized opposition to the power of right-wing money in politics? That would have been more fruitful than this major defeat.
It seemed like the Barrett campaign never bothered to make the case for unions in general or collective bargaining in particular. I kept thinking, did last winter just go down the memory hole? Why isn't anyone bringing up the unjust law that was the catalyst for all this? Read below the fold...
Submitted by danps on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 8:09pm
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Submitted by DCblogger on Sun, 01/08/2012 - 4:43pm
Personal account of life at recall HQ
The first time I walked into the Recall Fitz Headquarters two nights ago, I was amazed at the scene in front of me. The HQ isn’t in an office building of any sort, and it’s not being funded by the democratic party or United Wisconsin. In fact, the HQ is set up in Lori Compas’ living room, who is working full-time on the recall efforts. It’s a recall effort run by the people, for the people.
Read below the fold...
Submitted by DCblogger on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 3:30pm
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Submitted by danps on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 6:34pm
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Tuesday's recall elections in Wisconsin were a stunning rebuke to the Republican party. As Craig Gilbert wrote back in March: "History tells us that most of the 16 recall attempts under way in Wisconsin are likely to fail. It also tells us that if three or four succeed, it would be entirely without precedent." Read below the fold...
Submitted by danps on Thu, 07/14/2011 - 7:50pm
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When the protests in Wisconsin erupted over the winter I remember having an exchange with Athenae. She had been holding her breath every single day because she was sure at any moment it would fall apart. There was good reason to believe that! Despite their unprecedented size the protests were informally but widely boycotted by corporate media. (Curiously, media outlets owned by multinationals tend to not have very robust coverage of union and labor issues.) There were the usual strategies to discredit the movement - including the heretofore reliable tactic of telling a whopping lie, getting the wingnuts to jump all over it and turning it into a zombie lie. Read below the fold...
Submitted by DCblogger on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 2:58pm
Judicial temperament
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser allegedly grabbed fellow Justice Ann Walsh Bradley around the neck in an argument in her chambers last week, according to at least three knowledgeable sources.
I wonder if Pelosi or Obama will call on him to resign? Read below the fold...
Submitted by DCblogger on Tue, 05/31/2011 - 8:08pm
Submitted by DCblogger on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 3:25pm
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