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10 Steps to Repair American Democracy
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t r u t h o u t | 11.24
10 Steps to Repair American Democracy
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12920-10-steps-to-repair-american-democracy
Steven Hill, Paradigm Publishers: There are two alternative futures: a dystopia of post-democracy, if the US continues along the current futile path; or a brighter future if fundamental reform is enacted, rescuing Americans from our nation's downward trajectory.
Occupy Sandy Serves 10,000 Thanksgiving Meals
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12921-occupy-sandy-serves-10000-thanksgiving-meals
Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times: Shelters bustled with Occupy Sandy volunteers serving holiday dinners as the arduous recovery continues.
"Small Business Saturday" Aims to Boost Shop-Local Movement
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12919-small-business-saturday-aims-to-boost-shop-local-movement
Claudia Buck, McClatchy Newspapers: Squeezed between the Black Friday mall frenzy and Cyber Monday's online shopping kickoff, Small Business Saturday is the annual "shop local" day designed to pump up mom-and-pop businesses.
Lessons for Building a Co-Operative Movement
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12922-lessons-for-building-a-co-operative-movement
Michael Johnson, Grassroots Economic Organizing: Author John Curl argues that large-scale change is inevitable in the 21st century. The marginalized will form economic and political organizations based on mutual aid and cooperation, because they will have to, in order to survive.
The Fight for Corn
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12925-the-fight-for-corn
Alfredo Acedo, The Americas Program: Corn's transformation from a communal resource to an economic good has been made possible by means of a global strategy with three blocks meant to shut off the route to rural self-sufficiency through local food production.
Party of Entitled Rich Threatens Economy
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12926-party-of-entitled-rich-threatens-economy
Leo Gerard, Campaign for America's Future: Eighty CEOs have ponied up $37 million to make sure the so-called fiscal cliff problem is resolved their way. President Obama is right to take that advice and refuse to pay the ransom Republicans are demanding to appease the entitled rich.
The Missing Living Wage Agenda
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12927-the-missing-living-wage-agenda
Annette Bernhardt and Dorian Warren, Next New Deal: The media may have discovered inequality last year with the surprise emergence of Occupy Wall Street, but in truth, there is a 30-year backlog of policies to fix the extreme maldistribution of wages and opportunity in the labor market.
When Israel Says It Doesn't Target Journalists, It Is Lying
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12931-when-israel-says-it-doesnt-target-journalists-it-is-lying
Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada: Israel's attacks on journalists is a war crime. And this is a continuation of a tactic that Israel has used against journalists, with impunity, to slam the lid on exposing the truth about its crimes in Gaza and elsewhere in Palestine.
The Big Lie About the "Entitlement State"
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12929-the-big-lie-about-the-entitlement-state
Alejandro Reuss, Dollars & Sense: Could the US government just raise more revenue, as a percentage of GDP, to pay for transfers that have grown as a share of GDP? Well, somehow a couple of dozen other countries seem to manage. So probably yes.
Hostess Failure Not Union's Fault
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12928-hostess-failure-not-unions-fault
Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future: Are the problems in our economy because working people get too much, or too little? And if Hostess can get away with driving down wages and cutting benefits, what will happen to your wages and benefits?
Tens of Thousands of Egyptians Protest Morsi's Power Grab
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12932-tens-of-thousands-of-egyptians-protest-morsis-power-grab
Paul Jay, The Real News Network: On the heels of Israel's attack on Gaza, with support of Obama, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, Morsi gives himself powers that rival Mubarak.
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Immigrants Struggle to Cope in Sandy's Aftermath
Read the Article at Associated Press
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/immigrants-struggle-cope-sandys-aftermath-17799706#.ULELL9fROco
Report: Obama Considering Corporate Funding For Inauguration
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/report-obama-considering-corporate-funding-for-inauguration
Walmart Strikers Energized by Large Turnouts Nationwide
See the Pictures and Watch the Videos at Addicting Info
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/11/23/walmart-strikers-energized-by-large-turnouts-nationwide-imagesvideo/
Watch Out Plutocrats, the Progressive Pro-Democracy Movement Is Savvy and Gearing Up to Take on Citizens United
Read the Article at AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/watch-out-plutocrats-progressive-pro-democracy-movement-savvy-and-gearing-take-citizens-united?akid=9715.1084699.Z5yuEp&rd=1&src=newsletter749268&t=7&paging=off
Top 10 Steps That Are Necessary for Lasting Gaza-Israel Peace (or, Good Luck!)
Read the Article at Informed Comment
http://www.juancole.com/2012/11/top-ten-steps-that-are-necessary-for-lasting-gaza-israel-peace-or-good-luck.html
What Took So Long? Explaining Arizona's Ballot Count Fiasco
Read the Article at Colorlines
http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/11/what_took_so_long_arizonas_ballot_count_explained.html
New Report Ranks States in Efforts to Reduce Oil Addiction
Read the Article at Common Dreams
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/20-5
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Steven Hill, Paradigm Publishers:</strong> There are two alternative futures: a dystopia of post-democracy, if the US continues along the current futile path; or a brighter future if fundamental reform is enacted, rescuing Americans from our nation’s downward trajectory.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dFwubkGNIG80s%2FgsZjwzXZobK555WCWq" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Excerpt</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=IN4MjLe0OVYf1fP2awWAspobK555WCWq"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Occupy Sandy Serves 10,000 Thanksgiving Meals</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times:</strong> Shelters bustled with Occupy Sandy volunteers serving holiday dinners as the arduous recovery continues. </p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kmAPDUNeBt6IhFKr%2FMNpOJobK555WCWq" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=JDcrRttMH7mWmGXGiPmFrJobK555WCWq"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>"Small Business Saturday" Aims to Boost Shop-Local Movement</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Claudia Buck, McClatchy Newspapers:</strong> Squeezed between the Black Friday mall frenzy and Cyber Monday's online shopping kickoff, Small Business Saturday is the annual "shop local" day designed to pump up mom-and-pop businesses.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qDmN1V%2Fqn4cdplnFO22B6pobK555WCWq" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=MLmPWvXlYAPvo8cZABB0FpobK555WCWq"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Lessons for Building a Co-Operative Movement</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Michael Johnson, Grassroots Economic Organizing:</strong> Author John Curl argues that large-scale change is inevitable in the 21st century. The marginalized will form economic and political organizations based on mutual aid and cooperation, because they will have to, in order to survive.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qDmN1V%2Fqn4dyN8EWF2%2FyyZobK555WCWq" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=TgAQh4sqPZwOaum9tb3pYxhBOSedd7qj"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>The Fight for Corn</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Alfredo Acedo, The Americas Program:</strong> Corn’s transformation from a communal resource to an economic good has been made possible by means of a global strategy with three blocks meant to shut off the route to rural self-sufficiency through local food production.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zu9vlGMYqvxIw4yeayk5apobK555WCWq" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=iM8ly%2FVQwKSXaqNQni8%2Bt5obK555WCWq"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Party of Entitled Rich Threatens Economy</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Leo Gerard, Campaign for America's Future:</strong> Eighty CEOs have ponied up $37 million to make sure the so-called fiscal cliff problem is resolved their way. President Obama is right to take that advice and refuse to pay the ransom Republicans are demanding to appease the entitled rich.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=pr5107RfZ%2FtQyh%2Fp7PHAv5obK555WCWq" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zGTvuQMnWTicw62dz5Q41ZobK555WCWq"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>The Missing Living Wage Agenda</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Annette Bernhardt and Dorian Warren, Next New Deal:</strong> The media may have discovered inequality last year with the surprise emergence of Occupy Wall Street, but in truth, there is a 30-year backlog of policies to fix the extreme maldistribution of wages and opportunity in the labor market.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Nosv8%2Ff565m%2FmrPKNp50%2BZobK555WCWq" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tn8G0Fa5G7MstwkzOnaLBJobK555WCWq"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>When Israel Says It Doesn't Target Journalists, It Is Lying</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada:</strong> Israel’s attacks on journalists is a war crime. And this is a continuation of a tactic that Israel has used against journalists, with impunity, to slam the lid on exposing the truth about its crimes in Gaza and elsewhere in Palestine.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rRRBBTAL5gKP4kxs51At1ZobK555WCWq" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article and Watch the Video</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=CFknLTGLMJVFX11zHxGOBpobK555WCWq"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>The Big Lie About the "Entitlement State"</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Alejandro Reuss, Dollars & Sense:</strong> Could the US government just raise more revenue, as a percentage of GDP, to pay for transfers that have grown as a share of GDP? Well, somehow a couple of dozen other countries seem to manage. So probably yes.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=FzrUPsJCCFD8DxZ66tnMDBhBOSedd7qj" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=37BN2dyENZGrGnmUkgoEgZobK555WCWq"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Hostess Failure Not Union's Fault</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future:</strong> Are the problems in our economy because working people get too much, or too little? And if Hostess can get away with driving down wages and cutting benefits, what will happen to your wages and benefits?</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=d9WqLenbwZCu0PKo4hbu2JobK555WCWq" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=XYqcPLm7dnXjTO5cGDErO5obK555WCWq"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Tens of Thousands of Egyptians Protest Morsi's Power Grab</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Paul Jay, The Real News Network:</strong> On the heels of Israel's attack on Gaza, with support of Obama, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, Morsi gives himself powers that rival Mubarak.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zzNLH9FyRg9ddITdYwe6mpobK555WCWq" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</strong></a> </p>
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