Category Archives: Progressives

Why Occupy Wall Street Doesn’t Need to Articulate a Damn Thing

The Rude Pundit says it all on the Big Corporate Media playing dumb as to what OWS is protesting: Oct. 5, 2011 An Inarticulate Articulation of Why Occupy Wall Street Doesn’t Need to Articulate a Damn Thing: Oh, shut the … Continue reading

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Today’s Quote: JFK on Revolution

He was probably referring to civil rights, but it still applies today as we watch the nonviolent Occupy Wall Street protests in cities all over the country, which are basically about civil rights — in this case, economic civil rights. … Continue reading

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Too Big to Fail vs. Too Big to Ignore

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The Times They Are A-Changin’ by Bob Dylan

They did after 1964 when Bob released this song, with Americans taking to the streets to end the Vietnam debacle and the draft, and usher in civil rights and women’s rights, just as they are taking to the streets today … Continue reading

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Fox News Video Speaks for Itself…

…so well it never got on Fox News.  The guy in the Civil War-era Union cap is Jesse LaGreca of OccupyWallSt.org, and the man questioning him is a producer for Greta Van Susteren’s Fox show. Copyright 2011 OccupyWallSt.org.

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We Are the 99 Percent

This means YOU! (Unless you’re filthy rich.) From the We Are The 99 Percent website: We are the 99 percent. We are getting kicked out of our homes. We are forced to choose between groceries and rent. We are denied … Continue reading

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Waiting For a Sign? Here They Are, Too Big to Ignore…

The children of the 1980s business-school yuppies who cared about little but making money and voted for Republicans because they erroneously thought they were ‘good for business’ and would lower taxes on the middle-class, are now in their 20s and … Continue reading

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Today’s Quote: Lincoln on the Real Issue

“That is the real issue. That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles–right and wrong–throughout the world. … Continue reading

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‘Emoprogs’ Defined

I may disagree with some of what President Obama has done, or the way he did it, but he’s sane and intelligent and I think he’s trying his best to reverse our downward spiral from eight years of Junior Bush, … Continue reading

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Video: Every Democrat Should Follow Her Example

Here’s Elizabeth Warren, running for US Senate in Massachusetts against Wall Street Republican puppet Sen. Scott Brown, and clearly defining her campaign in no-nonsense populist terms every Democrat running for any office in the country should emulate. Hedge Fund favorite Brown has raised $10 … Continue reading

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