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National Coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program and newest member of Progressive Democrats of America’s Advisory Board, speaks to PDA IL on the future of single payer and building a strong progressive movement.
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PDA IL: Dr. Quentin Young on the future of single payer and building a strong progressive movement.
by n0madic, posted on Wednesday, July 18th, 2012 at 9:26 pmJeff Faux on the Hunger Games Economy, Obama, and Romney
by n0madic, posted on Wednesday, July 18th, 2012 at 4:50 pmfrom The Real New Network
Jeff Faux: The dreams of Wall Street and the military/industrial complex are not compatible with the dreams of the American middle class
Gar Alperovitz’s Green Party Keynote: We Are Laying Groundwork for “Next Great Revolution”
by n0madic, posted on Monday, July 16th, 2012 at 8:15 pmfrom Democracy Now!
At the Green Party’s 2012 National Convention in Baltimore over the weekend, Massachusetts physician Jill Stein and anti-poverty campaigner Cheri Honkala were nominated the party’s presidential and vice-presidential contenders. We air the convention’s keynote address delivered by Gar Alperovitz, a professor of political economy at the University of Maryland and co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative. Alperovitz is the author of, “America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy.” In his remarks, Alperovitz stressed the importance of third-party politics to challenge a corporate-run society. “Systems in history are defined above all by who controls the wealth,” Alperovitz says. “The top 400 people own more wealth now than the bottom 185 million Americans taken together. That is a medieval structure.”
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Organizer, Physician Jill Stein Poised to Win Green Party’s Presidential Nomination
by n0madic, posted on Friday, July 13th, 2012 at 11:38 amfrom Democracy Now!
As the corporate media covers every move made by Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney and Democratic incumbent Barack Obama, we go to Baltimore to cover the Green Party 2012 National Convention. “We need big solutions, you know, not solutions around the margins. We really need to end unemployment, we need to put 25 million people back to work with good paying jobs,” says presumptive presidential nominee Dr. Jill Stein, who is running on a platform called “the Green New Deal” that emphasizes economic justice, tough financial regulation, the repeal of Citizens United and a transition to a “green economy.” The Green Party expects to be on the 2012 ballot in at least 45 states and plans to spend approximately $1 million on its campaign. Stein is the party’s first candidate to independently qualify for federal matching funds, a milestone for this 11-year-old third party.
John Fullerton: Can Financial Reform Fight Climate Change?
by n0madic, posted on Monday, July 9th, 2012 at 10:23 pmfrom GRITtv with Laura Flanders
Former managing director at JP Morgan John Fullerton wants to see a complete re-imagining of the world of investments. If we don’t, Fullerton argues in this conversation with Laura Flanders, our grandchildren will ask us, “What were you thinking?”
Bill McKibben of 350.org on Colorado Wildfires, Debby, Keystone XL, and Failure of Rio+20
by n0madic, posted on Wednesday, June 27th, 2012 at 10:23 amfrom Democracy Now!
With extreme weather fueling wildfires in Colorado and record rainfall in Florida, the Obama administration has moved closer to approving construction of the southern section of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. We’re joined by environmentalist, educator and author Bill McKibben, founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org. “Today is one of those days when you understand what the early parts of the global warming era are going to look like,” McKibben says. “For the first time in history, we managed to get the fourth tropical storm of the year before July … These are the most destructive fires in Colorado history and they come after the warmest weather ever recorded there … This is what it looks like as the planet begins to warm. Nothing that happened [at the United Nations Rio+20 summit] will even begin to slow down that trajectory.”
Margaret Flowers: Obamacare Doesn’t Go Far Enough
by n0madic, posted on Wednesday, June 27th, 2012 at 10:15 amfrom GRITtv with Laura Flanders
Margaret Flowers of Physicians for a National Health Program sees one major flaw in President Obama’s Affordable Care Act: It did not go far enough. The only solution, Flowers argues in this conversation with Laura Flanders, is to push for universal healthcare by expanding medicare so that it covers all Americans.
What the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Arizona’s Immigration Law Means
by n0madic, posted on Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 at 9:27 amfrom the Center for American Progress
Angela Kelley and Marshall Fitz of the Center for American Progress’s Immigration Policy team, discuss what the Supreme Court’s ruling on Arizona’s immigration law, S.B. 1070, means for Arizonans, other states and Latino voters.
Van Jones: “Re-electing Obama won’t solve all of our problems”
by n0madic, posted on Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 at 9:12 amfrom Current TV’s The War Room
Van talks about the importance of having two forms of power: a President willing to be moved, and a movement in the streets willing to do the moving.
Amber Hollibaugh: How Far Has the LGBTQ Movement Come?
by n0madic, posted on Sunday, June 24th, 2012 at 11:00 amfrom GRITtv with Laura Flanders
Amber Hollibaugh of Queers for Economic Justice argues that though there’s plenty to be proud of this Pride weekend, there’s still a long way to go for the LGBTQ movement.
