from the BlueGreen Alliance
Featuring United Steelworkers International President Leo Gerard, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune, Blue-Green Alliance Deputy Director Margrete Strand Rangnes, Michigan AFL-CIO President Karla Swift, AFT Michigan President David Hecker, Juliana Goodlaw-Morris from National Wildlife Federation, BlueGreen Alliance Director of Chemicals, Public Health and Green Chemistry Charlotte Brody, and students from the Detroit School of Arts.
from The Nation
In 1976, when Trina Garnett was 14 years old, she accidentally started a housefire that ended up killing two boys. Now, thirty-five years later, Trina is fifty years old and still in prison. Why is a first-world country imprisoning its children for life? The Nation‘s Liliana Segura explains.
from 350.org
On 5/5/12, people around the world volunteered, documented, educated, and protested to connect the dots on climate change. We’re just getting started — join us at http://www.350.org
from the Center for American Progress
Center for American Progress Executive Vice President Winnie Stachelberg discusses President Obama’s historic announcement in support of marriage equality and explains how he is in line with public opinion on the issue.
from the New Organizing Institute
There’s only one way change happens: when people stand up and make change. There’s a long road ahead of us, but together we’ll continue to bend the arc.
from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee
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from Democracy Now!
In his new book, Beyond Outrage, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich opens with a dedication to the Occupy Wall Street movement. He writes: “To the Occupiers, and all others committed to taking back our economy and our democracy.” We speak to Reich about the success of Occupy in reshaping the national dialogue on the economy and why strong grassroots movements are needed to push elected leaders in Washington to enact a progressive agenda. Reich also discusses why austerity is not the answer to the economic crisis at home, or in Europe.
General election
Wanda Rohl (D)
Wanda Rohl on why she wants to run for Congress
Who is Wanda Rohl?
from The Nation
Ross Perlin, author of Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy, explains that while growing up, he was exposed to a “myth of work” that involved spending one’s entire career in a single industry and working 9am to 5pm in office parks or factories. But in recent decades, he says, the idea of standard employment has “come apart at the seams,” and now as much of a third of the labor force in developed countries—including the United States—consists of precarious workers such as freelancers, independent contractors, seasonal part-time workers and interns.
from The Nation
A real movement is not limited to a small party. A real movement touches everyone. In Wisconsin, a real movement did just that. In this video, John Nichols explains how the state came together—from the young to the old, from the private sector to the public—in a show of diversity that formed the basis for a broader struggle.
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