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CommonDreams.org 'When you pass whatever you finally pass, the people will hold you accountable as surely as night follows day.'
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Hey There, Congress and Mr. President. It's your citizens. Lots of us are losing jobs and benefits. We cannot keep the benefits we've got when we lose our jobs. In fact it's really hard to keep paying all the bills without a job and an income. The new jobless numbers are alarming in so many ways.
CommonDreams.org From a wise octogenarian: 'Your primary moral responsibility is for your own actions, which you can do something about.'
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Noam Chomsky is the closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual superstar. A philosopher of language and political campaigner of towering academic reputation, who as good as invented ...
CommonDreams.org Two short pages could make an enormous difference...
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Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced new legislation on Friday that should, he claims, solve the phenomenon of massive and failing financial institutions holding the nation's economy captive.
CommonDreams.org Here's some uplifting news about one community fighting back against corporate power. What would you add to the community bill of rights?
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Of all the candidates, bills, and proposals on ballots around the country yesterday, one of the most exciting is a proposition that didn't pass.
CommonDreams.org From our friend Norman Solomon: "In Washington, 'healthcare reform' has degenerated into a sick joke."
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At this point, only spinners who've succumbed to their own vertigo could use the word "robust" to describe the public option in the healthcare bill that the House Democratic leadership has sent to the floor.
CommonDreams.org Is there a shot to innoculate against greed?
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While people across the U.S. wait in long lines for swine flu vaccine, the shots arrive on Wall Street. CNBC's Trish Regan reports and NBC's chief medical editor, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, weighs in. (Today Show/ November 5, 2009)
CommonDreams.org Among the brave voices of dissent in the US House of Representatives was Dennis Kucinich: "Almost as serious as committing war crimes is covering up war crimes, pretending that war crimes were never committed and did not exist."
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Shame on the House of Representatives, and on the Democratic leadership of the House, for pushing through a resolution once again blindly taking the side of Israeli aggression.
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From the "No on 1 Campaign" in Maine: "We're in this for the long haul. For next week, and next month, and
next year-- until all Maine families are treated equally. Because in
the end, this has always been about love and family and that will
always be something worth fighting for."
Source: www.protectmaineequality.org
10/28/09Statement for NO on 1 on Today's Court Decision Denying National Organization for Marriage Its Emergency Attempt to Hide Donors
CommonDreams.org Enough enabling the oppression of women and power of warlords. Let's end the occupation of Afghanistan now.
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While President Barack Obama reviews his strategy on Afghanistan, a perfect moment to send a strong unified message to end the war is slipping through our fingers. Whether it's because we seem to have ...
CommonDreams.org More questions than answers. What do you think - still hopeful?
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Yeah, I'm disappointed, too. I thought we were sweeping into power; I thought change meant Change. I believed all that talk about another First 100 Days, a la Roosevelt. Well, that didn't happen. The question ...
CommonDreams.org The question needs asking. And the answers? ... Well, that's up to all of us.
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The occasional sign at an antiwar demonstration used to ask, "What if they had a war and nobody came?" Unfortunately, right now the question is more like "What do we do when they have an ...
CommonDreams.org Tomorrow (Tues. Nov. 3) the US House of Reps will likely vote on HR 867. If you're not familiar with this resolution, both Michael Ratner and Ira Chernus (http://bit.ly/4xxvhI) provide the necessary background. After reading both, call your House member (202-224-3121) and urge him or her to reject this affront to human rights and international law.
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On Tuesday, November 3, Congress is poised to vote on H.Res.867, which calls on the “President and the Secretary of State to oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration of the `Report ...
CommonDreams.org You want the Amazon to survive? 'Then pay us not to pump oil.'
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The tropical rainforest in the eastern lowlands of Ecuador assaults the senses: the sunlight dazzles the eyes, the heat is so fierce that within seconds one's clothes are soaked in sweat. Then there are ...
CommonDreams.org It's long. But it's worth the read.
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My subject tonight is the Path to a Peace Economy, based on ideas elaborated in my most recent book, Agenda for a New Economy, and the New Economy issue of YES! Magazine.
CommonDreams.org It's time for the "culture of impunity" to end.
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NEW YORK - October 30 - The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) calls on the United States not to block Security Council action on the Goldstone Report concerning war crimes and possible crimes against humanity committed in Gaza when it votes in the UN Security Council.
