General election
Cheri Bustos (D)
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2012 IL-17 general election campaign archive
by n0madic, posted on Saturday, May 19th, 2012 at 12:22 pm2012 IL-17 primary campaign archive
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Democratic primary
Gary Younge: The Revolt Against Austerity
by n0madic, posted on Thursday, May 17th, 2012 at 5:28 pmfrom The Nation
Across Europe, people are vocally and actively rejecting austerity. But they’re not doing so as Europeans, Nation columnist Gary Younge points out. Global and regional solidarity has been limited, Younge explains in this video, even as people fight similar battles against income inequality and other forms of injustice.
“End This Depression Now”: Paul Krugman Urges Public Spending, Not Deficit Hysteria
by n0madic, posted on Thursday, May 17th, 2012 at 2:30 pmfrom Democracy Now!
Public spending is under assault from the United States to Europe in the name of fighting deficits. Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman argues in his new book, “End This Depression Now!”, that the hysteria over the deficit will constrain an economic recovery in a time of high unemployment and stagnating wages. “The economics is really easy,” says Krugman, “If we were to spend more money at the government level, rehire the school teachers, firefighters, police officers who have been laid off in the last several years because of cutbacks, we would be a long way back toward full employment. … Right now there’s just not enough spending. We need the government to step in and provide the demand we need … We’ve had austerity in the face of a recession in a way that we’ve never had before since the 1930s. The results are clear — it is disastrous.” Krugman writes about the economy as a columnist for the New York Times and is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University.
The interview continues after the jump …
PDA-IL: Will Guzzardi and Rebecca Reynolds on Illinois’ 39th House district race
by n0madic, posted on Thursday, May 17th, 2012 at 9:00 amfrom Progressive Democrats of America – Illinois
Former candidate for Illinois’ 39th House district Will Guzzardi and his former campaign manager Rebecca Reynolds talk about their very, very close race against incumbent Toni Berrios.
May 14, 2012.
Connecting the Dots on the Dana Glacier
by n0madic, posted on Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 at 2:00 pmfrom 350.org
On 350.org’s Climate Action Day, a group of a friends climbed the melting Dana Glacier outside Yosemite National Park, California to connect the dots between local weather and global climate weirding.
Credits
Director – David Gilbert
Editor – Stefen Ruenzel
Music – “Demain je change de vie” by Lohstana David
Dana Goldstein: Why Is the Obama Administration Pushing Testing on Schools?
by n0madic, posted on Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 at 1:00 pmfrom The Nation
The Obama administration is now tying states’ access to federal education funds to the ways they hold teachers accountable for students’ success. That all sounds good in theory, but The Nation’s Dana Goldstein explains how this is causing most states to push test-heavy approaches to evaluating student achievement, and how such models can hurt student’s engagement more than they can help.
See also: Live Chat on Testing and Education Reform
Date: Thursday May 17, 2012
Time: 5:00PM EDT
As NATO Meets in Chicago, Activists Condemn “Militarized Arm of the 1 Percent”
by n0madic, posted on Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 at 11:45 amfrom Democracy Now!
Legendary Chicago activists Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers talk about this week’s protests in Chicago, where NATO will hold its largest summit to date. Thousands of protesters from a diverse coalition of organizations including unions, antiwar groups, immigrant rights organizations and Occupy are expected to march in the streets. Chicago is preparing a massive security operation, with the Department of Homeland Security declaring the summit a “National Special Security Event.” Civil liberties advocates have warned it could provide the first public test of a new law that expands the ability of the Secret Service to suppress protests in or around certain restricted zones. “We think that NATO should be meeting in an underground bunker or on a remote island,” Dorhn says. “[Chicago] is being treated as really a practice military zone … [while] we don’t have money here for community mental health clinics, we don’t have money for public libraries or for schools, we don’t have money for public transportation… We want peace and not permanent wars abroad and military war games and [the] national security state at home.”
Part 2 of this report after the jump …
Robert Reich: Public vs. Private Morality
by n0madic, posted on Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 at 9:46 amfrom MoveOn.org Political Action
Robert Reich discusses the misconceptions between public and private morality.
Noam Chomsky on Obama Administration, Occupy movement
by n0madic, posted on Monday, May 14th, 2012 at 10:57 amfrom Democracy Now!
Noam Chomsky says the Occupy movement has helped rebuild class solidarity and communities of mutual support on a level unseen since the time of the Great Depression. “The Occupy movement spontaneously created something that doesn’t really exist in the country: Communities of mutual support, cooperation, open spaces for discussion … people doing things and helping each other,” Chomsky says. “That’s very much missing. There [has been] massive propaganda going on for a century, that you really shouldn’t care about anyone else, just yourself … To rebuild [class solidarity] — even in small pieces of society — can become very important, can change the conception of how society ought to function.” Chomsky also gives his assessment of President Obama, whom he says has attacked civil liberties in a way that “goes beyond George W. Bush.”
