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Union-Busting Is Market Manipulation and Wage Theft

By Joshua Holland On February 25, 2011  

Like all progressives, we obsess on the quest for good ‘framing’ quite a bit around here (when I lived in DC, even the cabbies and doormen were reading Lakoff).

So, here’s a frame. Over at AlterNet, I have a feature up arguing that labor markets only work when workers can bargain collectively. As it stands, [...]

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An open letter to residents of Wisconsin

By Kenneth Bernstein On February 24, 2011  

This diary is the contents of an email widely distributed by Cynthia Koebert. It was written by her mother Jo Koebert to her brother. I have the permission of both Koeberts to distribute. I urge you to read it and to pass it on

Here are the words of Jo Koebert:

I am a Wisconsin [...]

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A Blueprint For Economic Disaster

By Adam Lambert On February 24, 2011  

Make no mistake – the demonization of public workers is just the latest in a long series of distractions by the right wing and economic elite as they pick the pockets of the “other 95% of Americans”. This coordinated approach is nothing new, but the agenda of wealth theft is taking on a new form [...]

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The Rich Are Laughing at Us and the Tea Party People

By Spocko On February 24, 2011  

Remember the Enron recording where two traders were joking about how they crewed the people of California and then “Grandma Millie” was trying to get her money back?

“Yeah, now she wants her f——g money back for all the power you’ve charged right up, jammed right up her a—— for f——g $250 [...]

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Note to Tea-Baggers: Public Workers Aren’t Demanding Anything from the “Taxpayers”

By Joshua Holland On February 23, 2011  

A common refrain from people wishing to destroy public employees’ unions is that their workers are ‘demanding more from the tax-payers.’ It’s a testament to how confused the Right is about the role of government.

Public employees are not demanding anything from “the taxpayer.” They are workers demanding fair wages from their bosses.

We live [...]

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Letters to a Senator

By Kenneth Bernstein On February 22, 2011  

“We are the first generation to leave our kids worse off than we were. How did this happen? Why is there such a wide distance between the rich and the middle class and the poor? What happened to the middle class? We did not buy boats or fancy cars or diamonds. Why was it possible [...]

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