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My Goodness – The parade is forming!

September 12, 2011 By liveandletlive 8 Comments

I am so happy to hear that the people in the audience can enthusiastically and confidently enlighten Mr. Romney and anyone else who might be standing nearby. Yes people, the parade is forming. Here's hoping that soon it will be marching … [Read more...]

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from the keyboard to the streets

March 3, 2011 By hubspoke Leave a Comment

event of possible interest here: Greater Boston Civil Rights Coalition March 4, 2011, 9:30am - All are Welcome! Selma to Cairo to Madison: Are Americans Flexing Their Freedom Muscles? Discussion About Direct Action for Freedom and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: labor, madison, protests, unions

Dispatch from Egypt @ Boston Review

February 3, 2011 By boston-review Leave a Comment

On Tuesday morning I walked around Cairo's Tahrir Square, weaving through and around the thousands of fellow protesters, trying to get a view of things. The space felt like a giant playground. Everything was accessible to me. Pro-democracy … [Read more...]

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What to do about Egypt?

February 1, 2011 By irishfury 51 Comments

While BMG generally focuses on domestic politics, I'm sure that the last week's events in Egypt have everyone fixated on this incredible uprising.  I've been following the events non-stop since last week and, as I've read and listened … [Read more...]

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Wall Street – from their perspective.

April 9, 2010 By liveandletlive 3 Comments

It is interesting to listen to the talk on Wall Street, and the way they feel put upon by government and society.  They think Tim Geithner is "solid" and the good guy.  They spin tax numbers to make it seem like they are going to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: financial-reform, lobbying, progressive-tax, protests, unions, wall-street

The Anti-Gay Right’s Theater of the Absurd

December 7, 2008 By tudor586 9 Comments

The right wing showed its skill at displaying phony outrage when Barack Obama used the old line about "lipstick on a pig" in reference to McCain's policies and former Mass. Gov. Jane Swift accused him of insulting Palin. Now they're up in … [Read more...]

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Nov 15th is National Day of Protest Against CA Prop 8

November 10, 2008 By Laurel 8 Comments

Thirty state constitutions now explicitly discriminate against gays by preventing same-sex marriage (not to mention prohibit adoption and foster parenting by gay parents).  But only in California were gay families stripped of currently … [Read more...]

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The United States of America, or the State of “Norsefire”?

September 3, 2008 By lynne 6 Comments

Even before the convention started, dozens of assault-rifle-wielding swat teams burst into houses where protesters were housing themselves with local friends, handcuffed them and had them lay on the floor, while they took away computers, … [Read more...]

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BenDowningMABen Downing@BenDowningMA·
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Our leaders didn’t prepare us for the virus, or a shock like it, and that left all of us, but particularly the most vulnerable, exposed. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/06/nation/mass-surpasses-16000-deaths-due-covid-19/ #mapoli

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It’s telling that the last two Democratic Presidents began their presidencies with a “Recovery Act” and a “Rescue Plan” because their inheritances were so catastrophic.

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Beautiful urban visions from @berkie1 !

Sure would help to have a robust, thriving public transit system to enable this.

Nathan Phillips@nathanpboston

Streets that put people first, not cars - The Boston Globe https://apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/graphics/2021/03/superblocks/ via @BostonGlobe

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DrEricDingEric Feigl-Ding@DrEricDing·
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Let this sink in— 5,700,000 children will be lifted out of poverty soon by President Biden’s #COVID19 relief aid passed by Congress.

Zero Republicans (House/Senate) voted for it.

Only way we passed it that Democrats won 2 senate seats for a 50-50 tie & VP Harris made it 51-50. https://twitter.com/chrislu44/status/1366524803742597120

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This deserves a lot more attention

New analysis: 13.1 million fewer Americans would be in poverty after the passage of Biden's economic relief bill

Significantly, the child poverty rate would be cut in half. That's 5.7 million fewer kids in poverty https://www.povertycenter.columbia.edu/news-internal/2021/presidential-policy/biden-economic-relief-proposal-poverty-impact?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210228&instance_id=27598&nl=the-morning®i_id=103545475&segment_id=52539&te=1&user_id=cd59d05eab07f3403b8db65ae0fa15b3

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jonfavsJon Favreau@jonfavs·
6 Mar

“..it could become one of the most effective laws to fight poverty in a generation. Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy estimates that the plan would reduce the poverty rate by more than a quarter for adults and cut the child poverty rate in half.”

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