
A New Way Forward Everyone -- Happy New Year. We will be thinking of the struggles we went through this year and realize that an important part of being able to have greater and deeper happiness and freedom is in the hope that small things we experience every day in our homes and in public fold into big kinds of progress.

A New Way Forward AIG e-mail trail is busting them. If this gets further investigated, we'll have one small, but important win:
www.washingtonpost.com
The probing e-mails came from every direction inside insurance giant American International Group during the summer and fall of 2007, all with the same underlying question:

A New Way Forward We've been planning the exact same campaign out in two weeks or so -- we want TO BREAK UP WITH YOUR BANK -- BREAK UP CREDIT CARDS, DEBT, BIG BANK ACCOUNTS. HuffPO does the same.
moveyourmoney.info

A New Way Forward An absolute must-read piece from Ryan Grim and Arthur Delaney...
www.huffingtonpost.com
The question was simple: Should the lending practices of auto dealers be regulated? It was already October and the 42 Democrats and 29 Republicans on the House Committee on Financial Services had spent ...

A New Way Forward I wrote this today on BanksterUSA and ANWF: "The Problem with the Revolving Door - It Brought Us Too-Big-To-Fail" Would love comments and feedback: http://www.anewwayforward.org/node/190
banksterusa.org
Bailouts and political connections go hand in hand according to a just released academic study. The study, which was conducted by the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan researchers, ...

A New Way Forward This was a good, easy read on what the heck has happened in politics by Danny Schechter.
www.anewwayforward.org
Lets drop all the decade hype. I know we tend to structure history in ten year swallows: The 60’s, the 70, the 80’s etc. It is all so neat and so clean but, alas, not quite true.

A New Way Forward A new bipartisan bill in Congress to reinstate Glass-Steagall. Read the bill, learn more, comment and vote:
www.opencongress.org
A response to the recent financial crisis and the subsequent government bailouts, this bill would essentially reinstate the New Deal-era Glass-Steagall Act that, until its repeal in 1999, separated commercial banking from investment banking.

A New Way Forward US' political system is disheartening and that is why we all need to ask ourselves how we can most strategically change the very structure of the political system. The answer is why I helped start Open Congress or why we're working on ANWF. We must get at a root problem in politics - the marriage of policy to money and... the extreme growth of corporations. Ezra Klein of the Wash Post agrees that structural change is the only way out:
voices.washingtonpost.com
A lot of people attach all sorts of happy adjectives to the word "pragmatic." There are pragmatic progressives and pragmatic idealists and assorted other pragmatists with a bounce in their step and a song on their lips. Not me. I'm...

Terri
Maggie Reyes writes:
Terri, I have a suggestion...have everyone make a video and upload to this site showing their departure of the Dem party. I"m going to start working on mine.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=25 5388482984&ref=ts
DEMOCRATIC PARTY: You're officially and immediately on notice. You can't have our money. You can't have our time. You can't assume our vote. We have have officially changed our voter registration...

Terri
An ordinary citizen stating her own Declaration from the Democrats. Her message to Obama and the Democrats.
WATCH!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_yO9E1OI B0
Then join: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=25 5388482984&ref=ts
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Fed up with an agenda we did not vote for? Change you can't believe you are still waiting and hoping for? Un-enroll from the two parties. Embed your YouTube video at: http://GoodbyeDemocratsImNotYourBitch.com

A New Way Forward Here's a cool site to check out. "An involuntary facebook of powerful Americans."
littlesis.org
An involuntary facebook of powerful Americans, collaboratively edited and maintained by people like you.

A New Way Forward New academic study confirms: connections to Congress and the Federal Reserve are the biggest determining factor in how much bailout money banks get.
www.bus.umich.edu
The University of Michigan Business School's news and information resources including resources from national news organizations, University press releases, Business School publications, and a media press kit.

Terri
Here's a nice history of the long roots of Democratic Party corruption that you might find useful: http://www.kclabor.org/an_open_letter_to _margaret_kimbe.htm
www.kclabor.org
I always look forward to your Freedom Rider column in the Black Commentator. I admire your skill in analyzing current events and placing them in a broader context. Usually this is connected to calls for action.





















