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The Courage of Humanitarian Aid Workers in Gaza Secretary of State John Kerry announced $47 million in humanitarian aid for Gaza. He didn't explain how the aid would get there and who on the ground would distribute it to people in need. A blog diary from an aid worker employed by American Near East Refugee Aid describes the challenges faced and the courage needed in delivering aid amidst the Israeli bombardment.

SHARE        Monday, June 2, 2014
Unjustly Enriched by Sterling's Racism: Owners of Pro Sports Teams Should Pay If Donald and Shelley Sterling get to sell the Los Angeles Clippers to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, they will have enriched themselves immensely as a result of Donald's racist rant to V. Stiviano. The increased vastly increased value of the Clippers will vault the value of all other professional sports franchises will surge as well--an unjust enrichment from racism that should be devoted to anti-racism activism.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, January 24, 2014
Republican Gubernatorial Campaign Strategy: Play the Charter School Card Here is the new conservative Republican gubernatorial campaign strategy: Show up at charter schools, make a show, hint that charters are the solution to public school problems, and sidestep other public school issues. Like others, Texas AG Greg Abbott, who’s currently campaigning to succeed Rick Perry in Austin, is following this playbook to the hilt. It's a strategy of charter schools leading to school privatization.

(4 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Daily Kos Writer Predicts “Big Resurgence” of Non-Hierarchical Occupy Movement At the Daily Kos, Ray Pensador declares that non-hierarchical organizing models have gotten under the skin of corporate and governmental intelligence-gathering partnerships. He suggests that this presages a resurgence of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

(2 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Watch Out for a 2014 Conservative Foundation Strategy of Attacking Public Sector Unions Watch out for conservative foundations in 2014 trying to capitalize on their "success" in Wisconsin under Governor Walker to fund bigger and broader attacks on public sector unions.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, November 1, 2012
Remembering When Democrats Used to Take on Poverty Democrats used to fearlessly address poverty. Proud Democrats think of their connection to FDR's New Deal and LBJ's War on Poverty. Now the word "poverty" isn't even mentioned by our presidential ticket. The focus is on protecting the middle class, not tackling poverty. So it was Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan who gave a campaign speech on poverty, not the Democrats. How disappointing!

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, September 28, 2012
Endorsed by the CForward PAC, How Progressive Are the Nonprofit Eight? The first national PAC dedicated to supporting nonprofit-friendly candidates--CForward--has endorsed its first slate of eight men and women running for national, state, and local offices. Do candidates supportive of the nonprofit sector mean anything for dealing with this country's deep social and economic problems. Are nonprofit candidates progressive? Does it matter if they are or they aren't?

(6 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, September 11, 2012
What Did President Obama Say to the Nonprofit Sector on Thursday Night? President Obama's acceptance speech said something to the nonprofit sector--by what it contained and what it omitted.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, September 8, 2012
How Nonprofits Inadvertently Provide Cover for Political Donor Laundering How did we end up with a massive influx of secret cash influencing our elections? It wasn't just the Citizens United decision. Nonprofits are providing the cloak for donors.

(7 comments) SHARE        Monday, July 23, 2012
Gun Control Money In The Wake of the Aurora Shooting Outmuscled by the NRA and other gun lobby groups, progressives--and President Obama--need to speak out about gun control