The Boston Globe quotes Nancy Pelosi: “It is a step backward for workers,” Pelosi said. “If the president wins this vote, he will have expended enormous resources to do so. He has all the power of the presidency, and all we have on the House Democratic side is the fact that we are right.” CAFTA, [...]
A couple of interesting articles: David Sirota on the Democratic Leadership Council’s support of corporate policy and sponsorship of Democratic Party campaigns and how this hurts the Democratic Party and thus provides no real opposition to the Republicans. Ralph Nader echoes Rose Ann DeMoro’s “Top 10 Problems with the Current Debate in the Labor Movement”
Tim Robbins is quoted as using sexist and strong language to denounce the Democrats and Sen. Kerry (D-MA) in particular in this Winnipeg Sun article: “For Embedded [Robbins' new DVD], he sat down for an hour one-on-one to talk about a citizen’s responsibility, the pressure on celebrities, what he perceives are the evils of the [...]
On a recent Democracy Now! (transcript) about 26m04s into the show, Norman Solomon, co-founder of Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, and Vote2StopBush.org signatory and, therefore, squelcher of presidential competition in 2004, helps keep the Karl Rove scandal in perspective: “It would be a big mistake for social movements to pin their hopes and their futures [...]
I read that the GNOME hackers are starting up an effort to market GNOME to teenagers. The GNOME Wiki has a section for this work. But Seb Payne, who announced the effort, says: “Many young people are stuck on Windows 98 and Office 2000. Why? Microsoft software is just too damm expensive.” And thus falls [...]
See how many Leftists remember this at the next election. The Senate vote was 54-45 in favor of passing CAFTA legislation. The Miami Herald has an illuminating paragraph on this vote: “Winning CAFTA is a top priority for Bush, who’s looking for some victories in Congress to give his domestic agenda some momentum. But the [...]
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