By Mark | September 2, 2014
Reverend Dr. William Barber II, the North Carolina minister who founded the Forward Together moral movement, is in the press today. It would seem that a young man in his group was arrested yesterday in Charlotte, at one of Barber’s Moral Monday events, for putting voter registration information on the windshields of parked cars. As […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, History | Also tagged abortion, affirmative action, assassination, Barack Obama, Brown v. Board of Education, busing, Charles Koch, Charlotte, Christianity, civil disobedience, civil rights, Civil Rights Act, Civil War, Committee on Equal Employment, economic justice, Emmett Till, entitlements, family values, Forward Together Moral Movement, George Wallace, guns, health care, higher ground, homosexuality, JFK, Jim Crow, Kevin Phillips, Koch brothers, labor, LBJ, Lee Atwater, Medgar Evers, Medicaid, Medicare, MLK, moral fusion, Moral Monday, morality, North Carolina, Otto Scharmer, Plessy v. Ferguson, political strategy, populism, poverty, prayer in the school, progressive politics, public education, race and poverty, race card, racism, reconstruction, Redemption Movement, religion, religious right, RFK, Richard Nixon, Rosa Parks, snake line, social justice, Southern Coalition Leadership Conference, southern strategy, states rights, tea party, voter suppression, voting rights, William Barber |
A few days ago, at the Netroots Nation conference, I had the good fortune to catch a session with former presidential candidate, and progressive standard bearer, Howard Dean. Following is the first of three videos I hope to post over the coming weeks, accompanied by my quick attempt at transcription. In this clip, you’ll hear […]
Posted in Politics | Also tagged 2004, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Convio, Democratic National Committee, Dick Cheney, Dick Gephardt, Eugene McCarthy, foreign policy, George Bush, Howard Dean, Iowa, Iraq war, Jim Jeffords, Joe Lieberman, John Edwards, John Kerry, Presidential politics, Saddam Hussein, Sandy Berger, SEIU, Susan Rice, Vietnam, Wesley Clark |
One of my favorite people in the whole world, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, dropped by the Netroots Nation conference yesterday in Detroit to talk about banking reform, the threat of oligarchy, the fight to establish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and those things that she feels that we, as Progressives, are ready to fight for. […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Detroit, Politics | Also tagged big banks, corporate personhood, corporations are not people, corruption, Elizabeth Warren, gay rights, infrastructure, lobbyists, marriage equality, minimum wage, net neutrality, populism, power grid, Presidential politics, Progressive platform, progressive politics, social security, student loan debt, tax loopholes, too big to fail, trade agreements, unfair policies, Wall Street reform |
I think everyone here at Netroots Nation was going to attend anyway, but actor Mark Ruffalo just ran out on stage, as Senator Elizabeth Warren made her way off, urging everyone to attend this afternoon’s big Keep The Water On rally outside of COBO Hall. Here he is, making his plea. (The women at my […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, Detroit, Michigan, Politics | Also tagged call for action, Columbo, Emergency Manager, Kevyn Orr, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Falk, Rick Snyder, water |
I spent yesterday at the Netroots Nation conference in Detroit. The highlight for me was probably getting to see Vice President Joe Biden, who showed up at Cobo Hall about halfway trough the day to rile up the gay, abortion-loving base of the Democratic party. There were a number of noteworthy moments… like when, after […]
