Folks are fighting for it in the streets. Believe it or not, they’re fighting for it in Washington. A few brave souls even still fight for it on Capitol Hill. So when progressives came together in a Washington hotel this week for a conference called, “Take Back the American Dream,” it seemed appropriate that some would actually define just what this “dream” is that we’re all longing for — and what it means to be without it. Although thousands are out...
Which is a long way of saying that my 'special' maybe/maybe-not distant relative Hank Williams, Jr. made some pretty Out There comments on Faux Nooz™ yesterday morning, which has been pounced on by anyone with an opinion to push, but what was most important to me has not been commented on at ALL, that I know of.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky’s glad to see folks participating in protests like Occupy Wall Street in New York, even if the demonstrations remain something of an enigma to her after watching them firsthand. The Illinois Democrat is about as friendly an ally as the protesters are likely to encounter in Congress. As a member of President Obama’s deficit-reduction task force, Schakowsky rejected the panel’s majority approach, and instead put forward her own comprehensive progressive deficit-reduction plan, a proposal which would...
The nation’s capital is about to be occupied. The folks behind the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations plan to bring their protests to another address synonymous with corporate influence: K Street in Washington, the home to big-dollar lobbyists who often trade campaign cash for political favors on behalf of powerful pro-business interests. Occupy K Street is expected to kick off Thursday, Liz Butler, an organizer of the Take Back The American Dream conference, announced Monday as the meeting opened. “My understanding of what...
Declaring that progressives had “the wrong theory of the presidency,” prominent progressive activist Van Jones argues progressives became too passive after the election of President Obama in 2008. Acnowledging that some on the left have become disappointed in Obama, the real problem lies not in the president — but rather in the movement which helped put him in the White House, according to Jones, who briefly served in the Obama White House before being resigning under fire from conservative...
The Democratic Daily will be blogging Monday from the Take Back The American Dream conference in Washington. We’ll be there as prominent progressives like Van Jones, Robert Reich and many others talk about how to rebuild American jobs and secure the U.S. working and middle classes. If you’ll be at the conference, stop by and say “hi.” Sphere: Related Content
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