Working Life

This almost made me cry… you have to read the whole thing. And share as well. It’s a summary of the political fight… From Bernie Sanders:… Yesterday, I held a rally in Louisville, Kentucky with Charles Booker, who ran a great progressive campaign for the Democratic Senate nomination last year and who is thinking of […]

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The pandemic has ripped a hole through every state budget in the country to the tune collectively of over $550 billion. That red ink is more than half a trillion dollars in money states won’t have—which translates into millions of people losing their jobs, services being decimated that we all rely on, attacks against people […]

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Years from now, at a great price in human life and suffering, the corona pandemic will have marked a potential decisive shift in the country because tens of millions of people will have seen that the country’s system and leadership have failed, over many decades, to protect the people. Progressives have a golden opportunity to […]

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It’s easy to get dragged into a negative head space if you do any kind of politics or movement building work—it’s hard out there and too often we have a tendency to focus on the really bad stuff, like “the planet is burning up and imploding” or a few people own more wealth in the […]

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Hypocrisy is pretty much a given when you are in politics. I’ve pointed out the particular hypocrisy of all those flag-waving politicians who shout a full-throated “I support our men and women in uniform” but, then, cut benefits for vets and cut funds for the VA. Today, I hone in on another hypocrisy: politicians who […]

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If you are shaking off the cobwebs from way too much surfing, watching and texting about every bit of Election Day trivia, then, you are an elections junkie. So, buckle up: I’ve got a great episode to keep that addiction fed. Listen again to Beto O’Rourke talk about the campaign as he rode in his […]

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Today I cast my ballot for president for Paul Wellstone. Ten years ago today, Paul died in a plane crash. I remember him each year to keep his memory alive because what he stood for was a sane, decent, inspiring world.

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    Each year, on this day, I try to write something about the late Paul Wellstone who was one of the few elected politicians who really had a deep soul and compass when it came to representing the people. Nine years ago, Paul died in a plane crash, along with his wife, Sheila, daughter Marcia, […]

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    The anger against the president that has been rocketing around many circles of liberal/progressive politics is misplaced.     The crisis we face isn’t about what the president is doing, or failing to do.     We are under siege, fighting the greatest class warfare in perhaps 100 years. And we can expect very […]

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    Scott Walker, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Paul Ryan…make your own list of the people who are viciously anti-union. We know the threat they pose: attacking the labor movement, and undermining the right to strike, is a death blow to the middle class and justice in America. The problem is that we are also undermined […]

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