After reading this article I am glad I voted early and I voted for Cynthia McKinney.
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alanmaki
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The American left has ignored the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Day of Action Against Poverty as well as international activities promoting the right to decent jobs with decent pay. Organizing activities around the 60th Anniversary of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights coming up on December 10, and the International Day of Action Against Poverty are some specific suggestions for correcting these deficiencies which have isolated the American left--- and the entire working class--- from movements around the world. It would seem to me that the struggles for socialized health care and ending the …
Posted to Internationalism and the Progressive Movement
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McCain is not only a warmonger; he is a war criminal. To evade discussing this only plays into the hands of the neoliberal, conservative agenda. Dropping bombs on the innocent Vietnamese people who never harmed anyone as they scurried for cover hardly is an action one can describe as "heroic;" it certainly needs to be decribed adequately. Refusing to acknowledge that we have a war criminal running for the highest office in this country certainly needs to be stated. "Heroic" is the term for those who shot down McCain and the invaders trying to occupy their country. To try to coerce …
Posted to Earth to Ken Brociner
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What we need to learn from Obama is not to be tricked and dragged into his campaign which lacks any progressive, or even liberal, substance. When will Obama spell out the specifics of what he means by "Unite for Change"? What kind of "change" is Obama seeking? So far, he hasn't said; chances are he won't say because he has so many people mesmerized with his illusionary and delussionary vision of "hope." Alan L. Maki Warroad, Minnesota
Posted to What Progressives Can Learn from Obama
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We have a rotten capitalist system on the skids to oblivion and a combined force of some 5,000 "leftists" in two conferences from across the country can't find a way to deal with the real problems the working class is experiencing. The Take Back America Conference is stuck in the rut of trying to properly "frame issues" without considering real solutions. There is something drastically wrong with the "left" when it can't come up with real solutions to the problems working people are experiencing like losing their jobs to plant closings; coming together to build a powerful movement for single-payer universal …
Posted to A Tale of Two Conferences
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