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Nonviolence in Difficult Circumstances
Mon, 03/30/2009 - 3:25pm | Steve Hanson
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 30, 2009
RE: Amitabh Pal, Managing Editor of The Progressive to Speak About “Nonviolence in Difficult Circumstances,” Wed. Apr. 15, Menomonie Public Library
Tags: Progressive Magazine 100th Anniversary Conference
Mon, 01/26/2009 - 1:56pm | Steve Hanson
The Progressive and the Progressive Movement, Then and Now!
That’s right! The Progressive turns 100 in 2009.
Please join Robert Redford, Senator Russ Feingold, Representative Tammy Baldwin, Howard Zinn, Cindy Sheehan, Jim Hightower, Barbara Ehrenreich, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Chuck D, Senator George McGovern, John Nichols, Robert McChesney, Adolph Reed, Martín Espada, Michael Feldman, Susan Douglas, Dave Zirin, Will Durst, Ruth Conniff, Elizabeth DiNovella, Amitabh Pal, Matthew Rothschild, …and many more!
Conference fee: $295.00. Register early to reserve your spot! Space is limited.
'You have no rights" -- The tyranny of talk radio
Tue, 09/25/2007 - 9:48am | xoff
WELCOME, MCADAMS & SYKES READERS. When you've finished, you may want to read this as well.
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Since late in 2001, under the title McCarthyism Watch, Matt Rothschild, editor of The Progressive, has collected and chronicled abuses of civil liberties in the post-9/11 era in the United States.
His book, You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression, tells 82 stories of people caught up in the web of the Patriot Act and other heightened security measures. (Rothschild will speak at a book-signing event Thursday, Sept. 28 at Harry W. Schwartz bookstore, 2559 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee.)
My fellow progressives ...
Sat, 07/28/2007 - 6:30pm | xoff
Just 20% said they consider it a positive description to call a candidate politically liberal while 39% would view that description negatively. However, 35% would consider it a positive description to call a candidate politically progressive. Just 18% react negatively to that term. Those figures reflect a huge swing, from a net negative of nineteen points to a net positive of 17 points...
There are, of course, huge partisan differences for each of these terms. Among Democrats, 32% consider the description liberal as positive. That number jumps to 42% for the description of a candidate as progressive. Among Republicans, just 7% say the term liberal is a positive description, but that number jumps to 26% for the term progressive.