Aurora, Ill.—Representative Ira C. Copley,
The Gas Age, September 1, 1914, p. 251.
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Found Objects for a Friday Afternoon: “the banner Progressive district of the United States”
by n0madic, posted on Friday, October 7th, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Food for Thought: Naomi Klein on The Paradox of Crisis
by n0madic, posted on Friday, September 16th, 2011 at 4:56 pm
IL-14: Hultgren town hall meeting video, Yorkville, August 29, 2011
by n0madic, posted on Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 at 7:12 amOriginally posted at robynsward’s YouTube Channel.
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Food for Thought: Van Jones on Rebuilding the American Dream
by n0madic, posted on Monday, August 1st, 2011 at 7:00 amLoyal to a Fault
by n0madic, posted on Monday, July 18th, 2011 at 7:35 amLike a lot of progressives, I’ve been troubled by the President’s response to the debt ceiling crisis which Republicans in Congress have been engineering lately. I’m not a deficit hawk. I believe we need more social investment, not less. So, as far as I’m concerned, both sides of this negotiation are on the wrong side of the debate.
And it’s not just that allowing the debate to narrow in this manner leads us to bad policy choices. It’s also bad politics.
So, when the Progressive Change Campaign Committee began circulating a petition that it hoped would stiffen Obama’s spine in these negotiations, I signed on. And I posted a link to it on my Facebook wall as well, hoping that others of a like mind would sign the pledge, too.
GRITtv documentary of the week: Aurora’s own “Prison Terminal”
by n0madic, posted on Saturday, May 14th, 2011 at 3:31 pmLast week a clip from a work-in-progress by Aurora filmmaker Edgar Barens was featured on GRITtv with Laura Flanders as their documentary of the week.
“The circle of life doesn’t end when people begin a life behind bars. Incarcerated women give birth; others become gravely ill. Do prisoners have the right to comfort as they approach death? If so, who will provide it? These are real questions that many working in the prison system have ignored–but not everyone. Our documentary of the week goes behind the walls of the maximum security Iowa State Penitentiary, where a prisoner-staffed hospice program has been touching the lives of patients and caregivers alike. Filmmaker Edgar Barens spent six months embedded with program participants, and the resulting film is the intimate Prison Terminal.”
To see more video from Prison Terminal, click here. For more information on the documentary, click here.
