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 Vol. 080 Issue 006 (June 1 2016)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Democracy Awakening
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Conniff, Ruth
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EDITOR’S NOTE by RUTH CONNIFF Democracy Awakening Earlier this year Jim Hightower met with our editorial staff via Skype from his home in Austin to talk about what’s next for the progressive...
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Ralph Nader's Democracy Crusade
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Conniff, Ruth
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COMMENT by RUTH CONNIFF Ralph Nader’s Democracy Crusade Fifty years ago, Ralph Nader published Unsafe at Any Speed, the book that exposed General Motors, changed the government’s approach to...
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No Comment
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Goldenberg, Stuart
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NO COMMENT Pro-Deathers in Action The National Abortion Federation has documented a “dramatic increase” in attacks on abortion providers in 2015, including ninety-four death threats,...
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Letters
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WE HEAR YOU Gun Show and Tell Reading Nathan Comp’s piece, “Guns for Everyone” (April issue), I was both enthralled and repulsed by the trip it described through the gun show culture. Many of...
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GOP Legislators Ignore Public Input
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LUEDERS, BILL
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SMOKING GUN by BILL LUEDERS GOP Legislators Ignore Public Input Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin, perhaps emboldened by their success in crushing public employee unions and redrawing voter...
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Democracy Awakening
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ON THE LINE Democracy Awakening . University of Wisconsin environmental studies grad student Kaja Rebane, dressed as the Statue of Liberty, was one of the thousands of pro-democracy...
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The Uprising
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Love, David A.
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The Uprising Protests Take on Money in Politics
and Voter Suppression By David A. Love A multigenerational, multiracial movement for democracy burst into view this spring. Between April 11...
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How Can More Testing Lead to More School Equity? It Can't
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Stevens, Sabrina Joy
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Read this whole post and others from our Education Fellows at www.progressive.org How Can More Testing Lead to More School Equity? It Can’t. By Sabrina Joy...
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Reviving Grassroots Democracy
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Kemble, Rebecca
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Reviving Grassroots Democracy Rebecca surrounded by her family, clockwise: son Kibuna, mother Joan, sister Martha, dog Bobo, husband Adam, father Tom, daughter Hannah, and (pictured) son...
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Zephyr Teachout's Push for Reform
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Whitney, Jake
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Zephyr Teachout’s
Push for Reform By Jake Whitney In a small, wood-paneled community center about five miles outside of New Paltz, New York, I sit in a semi-circle with about thirty other...
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What Hillary Can Learn From Bernie
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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What Hillary Can Learn
From Bernie By John Nichols The great test for Hillary Clinton in the coming weeks and months will be one of incorporation. Can the former Secretary of State and her...
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All Aboard
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Soodalter, Ron
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All Aboard The Fight Against Segregation on Bob-Lo Island By Ron Soodalter On June 21, 1945, the steamer Columbia blew its whistle and left the Detroit dock to make the eighteen-mile trip...
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Activism as Part of 'a Well-Rounded Life'
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Rampell, Ed
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Activism
as Part of ‘a Well-Rounded Life’ An Interview with Rosario Dawson By Ed Rampell Dawson takes part in the Democracy Spring demonstration on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on...
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Beyond Bathrooms
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Clinton, Kate
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UNPLUGGED by KATE CLINTON Beyond Bathrooms In mid-March, just as spring’s cheery yellow forsythia was peaking and the tulip trees were popping, more than 600 fierce veterans and fresh, new...
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Brazil's Olympic-Sized Crisis
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Zirin, Dave
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EDGE OF SPORTS by DAVE ZIRIN Brazil’s Olympic-Sized Crisis I write this en route to Rio, site of the 2016 Summer Olympics. I am traveling to Brazil to examine the bumps in the road that...
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Bearing Witness: The Poetry of Martín Espada
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BOOKS Bearing
Witness:
The Poetry of
Martín Espada By J.D. Schraffenberger Vivas to Those Who Have Failed By Martín Espada. W.W. Norton. 96 pages. $25.95 On a late summer evening in...
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Mother is Mathematician
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Briante, Susan
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POEM by SUSAN BRIANTE Mother Is Mathematician Water in the gutter calculates, leaves that choke gutters run their equations. I look for a language to speak them. When I extend my arm, I feel...
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DIY Democracy
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Hightower, Jim
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VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER DIY Democracy In my travels and conversations this year, I’ve been encouraged to meet grassroots people of all progressive stripes: populist, unionist, liberal,...
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