Elections
Chicago grassroots to mayoral candidates: we want a people’s agenda
December 17, 2010CHICAGO - What are the most urgent issues this city's next mayor must address? That question was mulled by over 2,000 grassroots community activists Dec. 14 in a political style convention.
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Gbagbo refuses to cede power after elections in Cote d’Ivoire
December 8, 2010A look at the current political crisis in Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast).
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Tea party movement’s new politics: dangerous shape-shifting
November 30, 2010The usual norms of political discourse would emphasize a party's ability to ask pertinent questions and provide salient answers; to probe facts, poll members and seek solutions based largely on consensus or majority sentiment. Today's politics...
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Better read than dead: the Communist Manifesto and southwest Ohio
November 29, 2010How could the Communist Manifesto, a 160-year-old book, have any relevance in explaining southwest Ohio labor's recent electoral defeat?
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Unions were California’s election game-changer
November 24, 2010California's labor movement was the game-changer in the state's Democratic election sweep.
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