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Progressive America Rising: States’ Minimum Wages Rise, Helping Millions of Workers

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News and Views from the Left-Progressive Wing of the Coalition that elected Obama, formerly 'Progressives for Obama,' now pushing forward! Sunday, January 4, 2015. States’ Minimum Wages Rise, Helping Millions of Workers. Fast-food and health care workers, and supporters, demonstrated in Los Angeles on Dec. 4 in a nationwide rally for higher pay. Robyn Beck / Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. Via New York Times. 8220;I need to make a decision to buy clothes, or pay the rent or pay my cellphone bill,&#8...

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Progressive America Rising: Why Baltimore Is Burning

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News and Views from the Left-Progressive Wing of the Coalition that elected Obama, formerly 'Progressives for Obama,' now pushing forward! Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Why Baltimore Is Burning. And we were segregated, hard, by a local power structure that did not want the ghetto to be seen nor heard from, and certainly not to bring its struggles out in plain sight for the world to see. Except all of this is mad real, Black people in America—the self-proclaimed greatest democracy on earth—are be...No matter...

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Progressive America Rising: Guns, Settlers & Race

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News and Views from the Left-Progressive Wing of the Coalition that elected Obama, formerly 'Progressives for Obama,' now pushing forward! Saturday, April 4, 2015. Guns, Settlers and Race. Black Panthers made headlines. By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Z Communications Daily Commentary. The gun issue in the USA is related to history but not particularly to the 2nd Amendment (the supposed right to bear arms). The debate precedes the 2nd Amendment by more than a century and it revolves around settlers and race. The g...

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Progressive America Rising: Year-Round, Locally Based Precinct Organizing Is Essential for Moving the Democratic Party (Or Any Other Group) Leftward

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News and Views from the Left-Progressive Wing of the Coalition that elected Obama, formerly 'Progressives for Obama,' now pushing forward! Sunday, March 22, 2015. Year-Round, Locally Based Precinct Organizing Is Essential for Moving the Democratic Party (Or Any Other Group) Leftward. US Senator Dick Durbin and his wife Loretta chat with precinct captain Joe Poelsterl. The most important job I ever had was Precinct Captain. —Harry S Truman. We are stuck in a rinse-repeat cycle in which a relatively large ...

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Progressive America Rising: Uphill Fight: Taking on Finance Capital in Congress

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News and Views from the Left-Progressive Wing of the Coalition that elected Obama, formerly 'Progressives for Obama,' now pushing forward! Monday, January 26, 2015. Uphill Fight: Taking on Finance Capital in Congress. How Bernie Sanders, In New Role, Could Make Wall Streeters Very, Very Unhappy. Jan 26, 2015 - Big banks now have to contend with an old enemy in a new position of power. Sanders knows how to draw the media spotlight when advocating for a cause. As media types muse over Sanders’s prosp...

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Progressive America Rising: Baltimore: Race, Class and Uprisings

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News and Views from the Left-Progressive Wing of the Coalition that elected Obama, formerly 'Progressives for Obama,' now pushing forward! Monday, May 4, 2015. Baltimore: Race, Class and Uprisings. A protester on a bicycle thrusts his fist in the air next to a line of police, in front of a burning CVS drug store, during clashes in Baltimore, Maryland April 27, 2015. This content was originally published by teleSUR at the following address: http:/, Reuters. By Bill Fletcher Jr. There was little about the ...

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Progressive America Rising: How A Ragtag Group Of Lefties Mainlined Debt-Free College Into The Democratic Primary

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News and Views from the Left-Progressive Wing of the Coalition that elected Obama, formerly 'Progressives for Obama,' now pushing forward! Saturday, May 9, 2015. How A Ragtag Group Of Lefties Mainlined Debt-Free College Into The Democratic Primary. Could Progressive Change Campaign Committee help ignite the youth vote for Democrats? To the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, averaging $ 28,400. I'm hopeful that debt-free college is the next big idea. - Senator Chuck Schumer. To write a white paper. In Marc...

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Progressive America Rising: Congressional Progressive Caucus Plays Hard-to-Get with Hillary Clinton

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News and Views from the Left-Progressive Wing of the Coalition that elected Obama, formerly 'Progressives for Obama,' now pushing forward! Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Congressional Progressive Caucus Plays Hard-to-Get with Hillary Clinton. Keith Ellison (D-MN) of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Many progressives are withholding endorsements in the hopes of pushing her left. Ellison and other House liberals hope that by holding out on a formal endorsement, they can nudge Clinton to the left, not only on ...

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Progressive America Rising: 'People Are Really Getting Angry': How Bernie Sanders Just Electrified Iowa — And What It Means for 2016

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News and Views from the Left-Progressive Wing of the Coalition that elected Obama, formerly 'Progressives for Obama,' now pushing forward! Tuesday, February 24, 2015. People Are Really Getting Angry: How Bernie Sanders Just Electrified Iowa — And What It Means for 2016. At an under-the-radar town hall in Des Moines, Sanders had the crowd begging for more. Here's why it matters. At first it was unclear who the bigger enemy of the people were to Sanders — the Kardashians or the Koch brothers.&#16...If he h...

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Progressive America Rising: Moral Mondays’ Barber Says America’s Political System Suffers From a ‘Heart Problem’

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News and Views from the Left-Progressive Wing of the Coalition that elected Obama, formerly 'Progressives for Obama,' now pushing forward! Monday, February 16, 2015. Moral Mondays’ Barber Says America’s Political System Suffers From a ‘Heart Problem’. Saturday’s Moral Mondays march once again brought a multicultural crowd of thousands to Raleigh, N.C., protesting budget cuts and voting restrictions enacted by the state’s Republican Legislature. For the movement, the stakes haven’t changed. As the Associa...