Action Alerts: March 17, 20101. March for Immigration Reform: March 21, 20102. Housing Conference, March 27 (NYC)3. Amy Goodman's Speaking Events===Tens Of Thousands To March For America To Demand Comprehensive Immigration ReformMonday, February 16th, 2010Shu Ohno, Reform Immigration FOR America (202) 309-5645http://reformimmigrationforamerica.org/blog/Washington D.C. - Today, the Reform Immigration FORAmerica Campaign announced a massive mobilizationeffort that will bring tens of thousands of people to
The End of an IllusionRobert KuttnerCo-Founder and Co-Editor of The AmericanProspectMarch 14, 2010 10:30 PMhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/the-end-of-an-illusion_b_498467.htmlAre we at a turning point in the Obama presidency? Ittook far too long, but the president has belatedlygrasped that when the other party is out to destroy you,the search for common ground is a fool's errand. [...]
San PatricioSt. Patrick's Day and the New ImmigrantsEditorialThe New York TimesMarch 17, 2010http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/opinion/17wed4.htmlOn this day of all days in the Irish-American calendar,when ethnic pride swells, let's raise a toast: Here'sto the Irish, and here's to the rest of us. May wenever forget where we came from. Nearly all of us wereMexicans once. That is: the new immigrants, poor andreviled, propelled by hope and hunger into America'sprickly embrace. [...]
Thailand: Hundreds of Thousands Take to the Streets to Demand Democracyby Giles Ji UngpakornMRzineMarch 16, 2010http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/ungpakorn160310.htmlHundreds of thousands of Thai Red Shirt pro-democracydemonstrators took to the streets of Bangkok and othercities over the weekend. This was a show of force toprove the strength of the movement and to dispel anylies by the royalist government and the media that theRed Shirts are not representative of the majority. [...]
'The Big Short' and 'Freefall'by G. Pascal Zachary, Special to The ChronicleSunday, March 14, 2010http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/14/RV7D1CCONQ.DTLThe big shortInside the doomsday machineBy michael lewisNorton; 266 pages; $27.95.Freefall america, free markets, and the sinking of theworld economyBy joseph e. stiglitzNorton; 361 pages; $27.95In "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine," MichaelLewis adds to his impressive collection of beautifully
Via Climate Progress (3/16/10), Scientific American guest blogger John Horgan (3/16/10) makes a disturbing claim:
Last night on the O'Reilly Factor (3/16/10):
What I'm about to tell you is simply stunning.
A new survey published by the New England Journal of Medicine, a prestigious magazine, says that nearly half of primary care doctors in America could leave the medical profession if Obamacare is passed.
The Great Forest Die-OffWhat’s Killing the Great Forests of the American West? AFrightening Phenomenon Happening Across the GlobeBy Jim RobbinsMarch 16, 2010,Yale Environmenthttp://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2252For many years, Diana Six, an entomologist at the Universityof Montana, planned her field season for the same two tothree weeks in July. That's when her quarry - tiny, black,mountain pine beetles - hatched from the tree they had justkilled and swarmed to a new one to start their life cycleagain. [...]
Sweatshops Won’t Save HaitiBy Tope FolarinMarch 15, 2010, CommonDreams.orghttp://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/15-2The United Nations will host a Haiti donors' conference atthe end of March.This conference will be quite different from last year'sevent, of course, coming as it does on the heels of the worstearthquake to strike Haiti in two centuries. An agenda hasalready begun to take shape: It's already clear that a futureHaiti must be populated with environmentally sustainable,
Recession Left 'Walking Wounded' WorkersBy Nick ZieminskiMarch 16, 2010, Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/NEW YORK - Many workers around the world have given up hopesof advancing in their jobs, but the bad economy is keepingthem from finding new ones.Such "walking wounded" workers are increasingly exchangingambition for job stability, which now even trumps pay as aconsideration, according to a biennial survey by the humanresources consultancy Towers Watson Co. [...]
Excess of supervisors dulls firms' productivityBy John BuellMarch 16, 2010, Bangor Daily Newshttp://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/139009.htmlRemember when the U.S. model of 'flexible' labor markets,deregulated transportation and innovative finance wassupposed to be an example to the world? Freed from theconstraints of minimum wages, burdensome product regulationsand troublesome unions, American corporations would developqualitatively superior products at competitive prices. [...]
DISARMAMENT: Despite Recession, Global Arms Race SpiralsBy Thalif DeenMarch 15, 2010, Inter Press Servicehttp://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50670UNITED NATIONS, Mar 15, 2010 (IPS) - The global financialcrisis has not deterred some of the world's developed anddeveloping nations from bolstering their military arsenalswith expensive new weapons systems, including sophisticatedfighter planes, combat helicopters, submarines, armouredvehicles and air defence systems. [...]
FAIR has a new Action Alert out on CNN's newest political commentator: Red State's Erick Erickson.
Washington Post columnists Dana Milbank and David Broder are both committed guardians of the establishment center, but they don't always interpret their role in the same way.
On his weekend NBC show, Chris Matthews regularly posts a question to 12 regular pundit/journalists--what he calls "The Matthews Meter." This Sunday (3/14/10), the question was: "Should Obama Move to the Center Instead of the Left as a Reelection Strategy?"
Matthews explained it on the show:
Why I Changed My Mind About School ReformFederal testing has narrowed education andcharter schools have failed to live up totheir promise.By Diane RavitchWall Street JournalMarch 9, 2010http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704869304575109443305343962.html?KEYWORDS=Diane+RavitchI have been a historian of American education since1975, when I received my doctorate from Columbia. Ihave written histories, and I've also writtenextensively about the need to improve students'
Join Us and Make Wall Street PayBy James ParksAFL-CIO blogMarch 15, 2010http://blog.aflcio.org//03/15/join-us-and-make-wall-street-pay/Starting today, the union movement and our allies aretaking our fight for good jobs now to the biggest WallStreet banks whose reckless greed has gone a long wayto wreck the U.S. economy and kill American jobs.From March 15-26, working people will hold rallies anddemonstrations at branches of the Big Six Wall Streetbanks-Bank of America, Chase, Citigroup, Wachovia-Wells
Offering a critique of the Iraq War drama Green Zone, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat (3/15/10) offers a "narrative of the Iraq invasion, properly told," that ends with:
And you had Saddam Hussein himself, the dictator in his labyrinth, apparently convinced that pretending to have WMD was the best way to keep his grip on power.
In these short videos, May First/People Link Co-Director Alfredo Lopez discusses some of the issues our organization has been grappling with and talking about: issues that we believe are of critical importance to both the Internet and the Progressive movement. Each of Alfredo's presentations is about 15 minutes long, using Flash format. Feel free to comment.
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