Walter Reuther

A Tale of Two Romneys

Brent Budowsky | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Auto Industry, George Romney, Civil Rights, Jobs, Capitalism, Made in America, Labor, Barack Obama, Competitive Cooperative Consumerism, Management, Walter Reuther, Politics News
Brent Budowsky

My Dickensian title is not about a tale of the three Mitt Romneys of left, right and center who have emerged as pretenders when convenient over the years. Rather, this is a tale of two Romneys named George and Mitt.

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Mayors to Obama: Bring War Dollars Home

Peter Dreier | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Iraq, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, National Priorities Project, Antonio Villaraigosa, U.S. Conference of Mayors, Carolyn Peterson, Dave Norris, Walter Reuther, Los Angeles, Mayors, Permanent War Economy, Seymour Melman, R. T. Rybank, David Cross, Politics News
Peter Dreier

This week, the nation's mayors, desperate for dollars to keep their cities afloat, demanded: we want our money back!

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The 50 Most Influential Progressives of the 20th Century

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John L. Lewis, Louis Brandeis, Eleanor Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair, John Dewey, The Nation, W.E.B. Dubois, Frances Perkins, Roger Baldwin, Margaret Sanger, 50 Most Influential Progressives, Lincoln Steffens, Eugene Debs, Jane Addams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Norman Thomas, Florence Kelley, Earl Warren, I.F. Stone, Ella Baker, Walter Reuther, Woody Guthrie, Jackie Robinson, Harry Hay, Thurgood Marshall, A.J. Musge, Rachel Carson, Sidney Hillman, Henry Wallace, A. Philip Randolph, Saul Alinsky, Paul Robeson, Politics News
Peter Dreier

We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of radicals and reformers who challenged the status quo of their day. Unfortunately, most Americans know little of this progressive history.

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The Cresting Wave

Sasha Reuther | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ted Kennedy, Walter Reuther, Health Care Reform, Labor, Labor Day, Ted Kennedy Dead, Ted Kennedy Health Care, Politics News
Sasha Reuther

The fight for health care reform is a generation-defining struggle that must not waver, even with the loss of a great champion. I pledge to do my part and only hope that we can forge the next coalition to finally reach the shore.

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Not So Fast: Don't Write Off Canada's Single-Payer Health System

Mitchell Beer | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Lee Iacocca, Health Wait Times, Health Care, Robert Creamer, Single-Payer, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Walter Reuther, Harm Reduction, Max Baucus, Safe Injection, Health Care in Canada, Insite, Healthy Living News
Mitchell Beer

When free-market alarmists who oppose U.S. health care reform storm Congress with their horror stories about Canada's public health insurance system, I don't know which system they're talking about.

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Two by Earth, Three by Fire: Detroit Revisited

Lester Sloan | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Michigan State, Ford, Walter Reuther, Gran Torino, Anderson Cooper, Detroit Riot, Hybrid Cars, Woodward Avenue, Red Wings, Jim Crow, Eastern Market, Final Four, Lynching, River Rouge, White Flight, Stanley Cup, United Auto Workers Union, Detroit Institute of Art, Arson, Fred Astaire, Devil's Night, Motown, Detroit, Greek Town, St.Lawrence Seaway, Chrysler, Pall Mall, Great Migration, Detroit-Michigan, Healthy Living News
Lester Sloan

Ironically, it is still Detroit that gives the suburbs a sense of place and America a reason to hope.

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Detroit Gets 10% of What AIG Already Has Received from TARP

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Europe, Congress, President Obama, Representative Sandy Levin, Chicago, TARP Money, Captive Imports, Detroit Three, Walter Reuther, Cars, Washington DC, Asia, American International Group, Joe Kennedy, Charles Ponzi, Yale Galanter, Ford Motor Co, Fdr, Chrysler, Aig, Tom Wolfe, Senate, Senator Carl Levin, Harvard University, Wall Street, General Motors, Uaw, Masters of the Universe, US Chamber of Commerce, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Business News
Steve Parker

Why does Detroit get only 10% of what the banks and Wall Street have been loaned?

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