The Cry for Democratic Moral Leadership and Effective Communication

by: George Lakoff, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

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If you have not read Drew Westin's outstanding piece "What Created the Populist Explosion and How Democrats Can Avoid the Shrapnel in November" on The Huffington Post, AlterNet, and other venues, read it immediately. Westin states as eloquently and forcefully as anyone what he, I, and other progressives have been saying from the beginning of the Obama administration. I agree fully with everything he says. But ... Westin's piece is incomplete in crucial ways. His piece can be read as saying that this election is about »

A painting on display at the Alfred P. Sloan museum in Flint depicts the Women's Emergency Brigade during the sit-down strike of

Letter From Flint, Michigan

by: Jim Boyce, TripleCrisis.com | Op-Ed

It began on December 30, 1936, at Fisher Body No. 1 in Flint, Michigan: workers occupied General Motors factories, launching one of the key struggles in U.S. labor history. A Women's Emergency Brigade brought them food; when the police tried to drive out the strikers with tear gas, the women broke the windows to give them fresh air. After 44 bitter winter days, the sit-down strike forced GM to recognize their union, the United Auto Workers.

It was no accident that Flint was the scene of this historic battle. »

Senator Evan Bayh.

Democrats Unlikely to Repeal Tax Cuts for the Rich

by: David Lightman, McClatchy Newspapers | Report

Washington - Democrats in Congress are poised to play a leading role this month in thwarting their party's effort to raise income tax rates on the wealthy.

Tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 expire at the end of this year. President Barack Obama and Democratic congressional leaders have been eager to extend the breaks for individuals who earn less than $200,000 annually and joint filers who make less than »

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