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Marchers demand common sense taxes, not cuts
June 8, 2010SAN FRANCISCO - Their chants - "Arnold, Arnold get a clue, better raise some revenue!" and "Tax the oil, tax the booze, save the services we all use!"- reverberated off buildings along Market St as hundreds...
Read moreOil plumes spreading under Gulf “like ash from a volcano”
June 8, 2010Government officials confirmed today that oil as far as 3,300 feet below the surface is traveling in clouds through large areas of the subsea Gulf of Mexico. At a news briefing, Jane Lubchenko, of the National...
Read moreAll eyes on South Africa as World Cup set to kickoff
June 8, 2010Soccer fans worldwide are gearing up for the most popular sporting event on the planet, the 2010 World Cup, set to kickoff June 11 for the first time on African soil in South Africa.
Read moreProgressives must win “hearts and minds” of working people
June 8, 2010WASHINGTON - In the first 18 months of the Obama presidency, national health care reform was passed, SCHIP was expanded, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was passed, and the Recovery and Reinvestment Act created or...
Read moreAmerica’s Future: We are the change, we have the power
June 8, 2010WASHINGTON - "We are the change, we have the power," Campaign for America's Future co-director Robert Borosage told progressive leaders and activists from around the country today.
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