I’ll be speaking with Norman Solomon — who’s running for Congress — and Lisa Maldonado of the AFL-CIO. Details here — hope to see you!

Here is the video of last night’s launch of Rebuild the Dream campaign, with Van Jones. (If you want to skip the music parts, start at 9:15.)

Watch Van Jones spell out “the three big lies” of the conservative narrative:

1) America is broke.
2) Asking the super rich to pay taxes [...]

With so many Americans facing a summer characterized by “staycations” (if they’re lucky to even have homes in which to stay), job-hunting, and general belt-tightening, it’s understandable that they’d be more receptive to something–anything–that promised to keep gas prices from soaring again, even if it meant turning their heads for a while so as to [...]

It is 10 years since the Bush tax cuts passed. When Bush took office (and never forget the Supreme Court’s 5-4 role in that) The Onion famously declared, “Our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over.” They had no way to know how prescient they were. Now we [...]

From Shana Mosher at Human Services Council:

On May 12, 25,000 people united to march on Wall Street, rally against budget cuts that will severely impact our communities and social safety net, and demand that banks and Wall Street corporations pay their fair share.

The energy and momentum before and on the day [...]