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Category: Labor and unions

No struggle, no progress

March 21, 2011 Madonna Gauding Charity & Justice, Government, Labor and unions One comment

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops

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Good news on jobs means good wages

March 10, 2011 Arthur Lieber Economy, Employment, Labor and unions Leave a comment

  Robert Reich has been a contrarian about most of the Obama economic policies, but that does not necessarily make him a negative person. 

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Wisconsin: Blueprint for a new progressive movement in America

March 8, 2011 Madonna Gauding Labor and unions, Politics, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

The question shall arise in your day: which shall rule, wealth or man,” said Edward Ryan, the Chief Justice of Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, in

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Madison protestors, inspired by Victor Hugo, take on Wisconsin’s newly elected emperor

March 1, 2011 Madonna Gauding Civil Rights, Employment, Government, Labor and unions Leave a comment

On February 27, the people occupying the Wisconsin state capital building in support of worker’s rights, broke out in a stirring rendition of a

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Why Wisconsin is ground zero of the billionaires’ assault on America

February 23, 2011 Madonna Gauding Civil Rights, Government, Labor and unions, Politics 2 comments

Wisconsin Republican Scott Walker was elected governor, and long time Democratic senator Russ Feingold was defeated, because conservative billionaires, David and Charles Koch, flooded

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Can a movement tolerate ambiguity?

February 22, 2011 Arthur Lieber Government, Labor and unions, Politics 2 comments

There have been many individuals wondering whether people would have to take to the streets to  awaken our legislators, and most importantly President Barack

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