Working Life

Forget what you read from this day on about the polls and the pundits and the status quo rhetoric. It’s over in Iowa and New Hampshire…and the status quo knows it. The Moveon endorsement—which VL Baker write about here—coupled with the enthusiasm we’ve already seen on the ground in Iowa for many weeks, which I […]

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I’m putting this story up from The New York Times because it reflects what I hear and see on the ground, as I begin a three-week trip on the campaign trail to speak for Bernie (today I’m heading to New Hampshire through Saturday, then, Iowa right to caucus day, and then, Feb 2nd back to […]

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Along the long list of claims obscured by magic dust the status quo candidate regularly sprays around—the you-have-to-be-drunk-to-believe her sudden opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership (a trade deal she once called the “gold standard” which, I wager, would be a “gold standard” again at the appropriate time, with a change of 10 words and […]

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peaking a few subway stops away from the epicenter of the global financial crisis, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders promised to remake the financial system to serve America’s working families. Below are his prepared remarks. Watch the live stream here. The American people are catching on. They understand that something is profoundly wrong when, in our country […]

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I have long been an advocate for a single-payer, “Medicare for All” system for the simple economic reality that it is the only way people can get decent health care and not go bankrupt. It’s one of the many reasons I support Bernie. This morning, The New York Times illuminates this with a piece called […]

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No, this is not a pitch for a cruise…unless you think of it as a cruise of the mind. With all the great work the Florida Bernie volunteers have done, I’m set for six events in three days. A lot easier to post them in one document–please RSVP!: January 8th, St. Petersburg: Jonathan Tasini Book […]

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Please, put out a red alert. Andrew Cuomo has been kidnapped. The man who occupies the governor’s office is a body double. Seriously, where has the guy gone who was a shill for big business, a guy who took pleasure attacking unions and seemed to like only tax breaks for the wealthy? The guy who […]

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This is not really surprising. We know this: the rich shape tax policies that help them pocket billions. But, this story in The New York Times raises that issue again (and I can’t help also point out that this is the very newspaper that also has advanced that rip-off by flogging for so-called “free trade” […]

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Fuck those idiots at the Fed. Tools of Wall Street, the bond market and the rest of the pieces of crap that have savaged Americans. You hike interests rates for no economic reason other than some clamor from the very elites who just need to soak regular Americans even more. Bernie (from his Senate website […]

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f you want to know why a political revolution is necessary (and why the status quo’s most intellectually fraudulent campaign in recent Democratic primaries is such a threat to working people), you need only check out this new report from our friends at the Economic Policy Institute. Wal-Mart (that would be the board the status […]

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