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March 4, 2011 3:10 pm | By Miranda Blue
Scapegoating Teachers
Last week, PFAW’s Michael Keegan wrote of “increasing power of corporate interests in deciding who benefits from the government, and who becomes a scapegoat.” Watch Jon Stewart call out right-wing commentators on their willingness to scapegoat teachers and other public…
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March 3, 2011 11:04 pm | By Miranda Blue
King Having Trouble Finding Anti-Muslim Muslims to Testify at his “Radicalization” Hearings
Speaking of officially-sanctioned Islamophobia, GOP Rep. Peter King is having a hard time finding Muslim Americans, or any experts at all, to testify in his planned hearings about the “radicalization” of American Muslims. According to the American Prospect’s Adam Serwer,…
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March 3, 2011 8:58 pm | By Miranda Blue
Sweeping Anti-Choice Bill Passes House Committee
The House Judiciary Committee approved a bill today that would severely restrict reproductive rights, including undercutting women’s ability to buy their own insurance coverage for abortion.Lawmakers stripped the bill, H.R. 3, of some of its most controversial provisions, including language…
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March 3, 2011 5:48 pm | By Miranda Blue
Ugly Islamaphobia in Orange County
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has released a disturbing video of about one hundred anti-Islamic protesters heckling attendees a fundraiser for a Muslim charity last month. The protestors, some with bullhorns, shout at attendees to “go back home,” “no…
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March 3, 2011 2:24 pm | By Brian
Wisconsin YEO Chris Larson Stands Up To GOP Power Play
Republicans in the Wisconsin State Senate announced that they will penalize the fourteen boycotting Senators by imposing a $100-a-day fine and taking away their parking spaces, but the chamber’s Democrats are determined to block the GOP’s radical anti-labor legislation. In…
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March 2, 2011 7:07 pm | By Paul Gordon
Supreme Court Recusal Bill Introduced
For several weeks now, more and more people have been paying attention to the general absence of enforceable standards for the recusal of Supreme Court Justices from cases in which their impartiality is in question. Rep. Chris Murphy (CT) has…
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March 2, 2011 6:21 pm | By Miranda Blue
Wisconsin State Senator Calls Protestors “Slobs,” “College Students Having a Fun Party”
This is probably news to the tens of thousands of Wisconsinites who have been rallying for worker’s rights in the state capital for weeks, but according to Republican State Sen. Glenn Grothman, they are a bunch of “college students having…
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March 2, 2011 4:57 pm | By Paul Gordon
Still More Bipartisan Support for Goodwin Liu
Richard Painter, once the chief White House ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush, has a comprehensive, well-researched piece in the Huffington Post whose title says it all: "Qualified, Measured, and Mainstream: Why the Senate Should Confirm Goodwin Liu." Now…
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March 1, 2011 11:22 pm | By Marge Baker
The Debate We’re Not Having About Budget Deficits
Today’s New York Times reported on the latest Times/CBS poll showing majority opposition to weakening public employee unions bargaining rights by a nearly 2-1 margin (60 percent to 33 percent). In the context of the battle in Wisconsin over Governor…
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March 1, 2011 11:03 pm | By Brian
As Unions Are Demonized, Corporate Power Continues To Be Left Unchecked
On The Morning Joe, Richard Haass offered his proposal to resolve the conflicts in states like Wisconsin and Ohio, where Republican governors are attempting to dismantle organized labor by stripping workers’ rights to bargain collectively for the purported reason of…
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March 1, 2011 10:28 pm | By Paul Gordon
Chamber Fails to Poke a Hole in Nation’s Anti-Discrimination Laws
The Supreme Court issued its decision in Staub v. Proctor Hospital today, addressing whether an employer may be held liable for employment discrimination based on the discriminatory animus of an employee who influenced, but who did not make, the ultimate…
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March 1, 2011 8:22 pm | By Paul Gordon
Corporate Personhood Debunked (This Time)
It's not often these days when you can't get even one of the conservative Justices on the Supreme Court to ignore precedent, twist the facts, ignore logic, or do whatever else it takes to help Big Business consolidate the already…
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March 1, 2011 5:28 pm | By Brian
Corporate-Funded American Crossroads Prepares for Massive Spending in 2012
The twin groups founded by GOP heavyweights Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie are readying to spend $120 million to influence the 2012 elections. As reported in Citizens Blindsided, American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS were handsomely funded by Wall Street and…
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March 1, 2011 4:35 pm | By Miranda Blue
The Story of Citizens United
The Story of Stuff Project has made a new video telling the story of Citizens United v. FEC. Take a look: For more information on the influence that corporate spending had in the 2010 elections, read PFAW's report, Citizens Blindsided.
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March 1, 2011 3:32 pm | By Deborah Liu
Updates from the Front Lines of Wisconsin
Below you will see live Facebook updates from State Rep. Kelda Roys of Wisconsin, a member of People For the American Way Foundation's Young Elected Officials Network. She has been repeatedly denied entry to the state Capitol as a result…
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February 28, 2011 10:25 pm | By Miranda Blue
“Hide/Seek” and the Future of Fighting Censorship
Watching "A Fire in My Belly" The National Portrait Gallery’s “Hide/Seek” exhibit closed last month, but the debate surrounding it is far from over. On Feb. 17, People For’s president, Michael Keegan joined People For board member Ron Feldman and…
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February 28, 2011 3:40 pm | By admin
Report from Madison: Standing Up (in the Snow) for Wisconsin’s Workers
By Dave KreismanOver the last 13 days, neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor cold has been able to stop the tens of thousands of public employees, their families and allies in Wisconsin’s fight to protect the rights of the…
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February 25, 2011 8:08 pm | By Miranda Blue
Wisconsin after Citizens United
In the Huffington Post today, People For President Michael Keegan looks at what happens after corporations get unlimited influence in elections. In Wisconsin, big corporate funders not only have elected officials willing to unpopular and anti-populist policies, but also have…
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February 25, 2011 7:15 pm | By Miranda Blue
Stoking Fear with Silence: Broun Apologizes, but When Will Republican Officials Stop Condoning Lies?
Last Friday, Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia was at a town hall meeting when a constituent asked him, “Who will shoot Obama?” Rather than confronting the call to violence, Broun—who has his own history of incendiary remarks— laughed it off,…
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February 24, 2011 6:14 pm | By Miranda Blue
Madison Police Chief: Walker’s Remarks on Protesters are “Unsettling and Troubling”
Madison, Wisconsin’s police chief isn’t so happy about Gov. Scott Walker’s joking around with a caller who he thought was billionaire Republican donor David Koch. In his conversation with a reporter pretending to be Koch, Walker said that he had…