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Rick Berman

We Can't Reform Health Care without Reforming Food

Bob Cesca | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Big Food, Issue 2, Animal Rights, Humane Society, Rick Berman, Agriculture, Ohio, Illegal Immigration, Center for Consumer Freedom, Human Trafficking, Farms, Corporations, Rachel Maddow, Health Care Reform, Agribusiness, Food, Politics and Food, Health Care, Food Politics, Green News
Bob Cesca

Without any real changes in how our food is produced, the health care system will continue to bloat and fall apart. Not unlike the insides of an average American body.

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Rachel Maddow Takes on Corporate Agribusiness PR. Next Up, the Fight for Food Safety?

Paula Crossfield | Posted 10.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Video, Food Safety, Usda, Fda, Meat Recall, Rachel Maddow, Interview, Rick Berman, Green News
Paula Crossfield

Rachel Maddow continues her work pulling back the layers of American politics to expose underhanded and manipulative lobbying tactics to the public.

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Rachel Maddow Confronts Notorious Corporate Lobbyist Rick Berman (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Video, Rachel Maddow, Rick Berman, Rick Berman Rachel Maddow, Lobbyblog, Rachel Maddow Video, Business News

Rachel Maddow confronted notorious corporate lobbyist Rick Berman over his advocacy for corporate interests that are at best extremely questionable, a...

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Rachel Maddow vs. "Dr. Evil": Smackdown over Rick Berman's Corporate Funding (VIDEO)

Art Levine | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Acorn, Rachel Maddow, Employee Free Choice Act, Dr. Evil, Rick Berman, Politics News
Art Levine

Berman has established a bevy of anti-reform "non-profit" websites that enable him to attack everything from ACORN to unions to MADD while defending trans-fats and a low minimum wage as good for the economy.

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EFCA Opponent Runs Ad Suggesting Unions Gag Employees With Duct Tape

The Plum Line | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blanche Lincoln, Rick Berman, Employee Free Choice Act, Mark Pryor, Efca, Service Employees International Union, Unions, Labor Unions, Seiu, Politics News

A top union is demanding that an Arkansas TV station yank a new ad being run by the "Dr. Evil" of pro-business lobbyists that depicts workers as mobbe...

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Feinstein, Specter Compromises Pave the Way for Passage of Employee Free Choice Act

Jane Hamsher | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Udall, Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, Diane Feinstein, Ben Nelson George McGovern, Mark Pryor, Rick Berman, Tom Harkin, Penny Pritzger, Afl-Cio, Michael Bennet, Jim Webb, Astroturf, Politics News
Jane Hamsher

With 900,000 union members in the state of Pennsylvania, the Arlen Specter firewall appears to be crumbling.

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The Big Lie about the Employee Free Choice Act

Gerald McEntee | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Labor, Employee Free Choice Act, Economy, Ceos, Rick Berman, Middle Class, Unions, Afscme, Hilda Solis, Democrats Efca, Efca, Obama, Unions Hilda Solis, Union Officials Efca, Afl-Cio Efca, Union Efca, Economic Recovery, Politics News
Gerald McEntee

America's top CEOs have declared their top legislative priority for 2009 -- to scuttle the bipartisan legislation that would restore workers' freedom to form unions and bargain for a better life.

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Union Allies Fight Back Against GOP "Meltdown Lobby" With IRS Complaint, Grass-Roots Campaigns

Art Levine | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afl-Cio, Obama, Employee Free Choice Act, Economic Policy Institute, Rick Berman, Unions, Politics News
Art Levine

Republican leaders and their conservative big business allies, including the Chamber of Commerce, have gone after workers' rights ...

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Sam Stein

Unions File Complaint To Strip Anti-Labor Group's Tax Status

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Irs Lawsuit, Berman Center for Union Facts, Rick Berman, Irs Lawsuit Tax Status, Union Lawsuit, Afl-Cio, Marcus Foundation, Change to Win, Bernie Marcus, Lawsuit, Politics News

Two of the nation's largest unions have filed a joint complaint with the IRS, urging the agency to revoke the tax-exempt status of two organizations f...

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Unions Hold Firm on Employee Free Choice Act, Buoyed by Tough Ads, White House Support

Art Levine | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Obama, Unions, Employee Free Choice Act, Bruce Springsteen, Rick Berman, Video, Task Force on Middle Class Working Families, Barack Obama Unions, Politics News
Art Levine

An aggressive new ad campaign launched Sunday against the lies about the Employee Free Choice Act have clearly boosted the union cause.

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Sam Stein

Good Gov't Groups: Are Corporations Using Bailout Money To Fund Political Campaigns?

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Marcus Call, Bailout Recipients Hosted Call to Defeat Key Labor Bill, Employee Free Chioce Act, Employee Free Choice Act, Rick Berman, Key Labor Bill, Bank of America, Letter Congress, Marcus Berman Call, Conference Call, Employee Free Choice Act Call, Efca, Employee Free Choice Act Fight, Bernie Marcus, Bank of America Bailout, Good Government Groups, Berman Call, Politics News

Reform groups are blasting letters to congressional committee chairs and the head of the Congressional Oversight Panel, urging an investigation into w...

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Human Rights Watch Backs Pro-Union Bill -- Did Anti-Union Bailout Barons Break Campaign Laws?

Art Levine | Posted 02.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank of America, Bailout, Home Depot, Employee Free Choice Act, Rick Berman, Business News
Art Levine

While international law recognizes union organizing as a human right, the bailout barons were seeking to use some of the billions in taxpayer funds to rob those same taxpayers of the right to fairly form a union.

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Sam Stein

Bailout Recipients Hosted Call To Defeat Key Labor Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Marcus Call, Employee Free Choice Act, Conference Call, Rick Berman, Bank of America, Efca, Audio Employee Free Chioce Act, Key Labor Bill, Employee Free Choice Act Fight, Employee Free Choice Act Call, Marcus Berman Call, Bailout Recipients Hosted Call to Defeat Key Labor Bill, Bailout Bandits, Berman Call, Anti-Union, Bank of America Bailout, Bernie Marcus, Oregon, Politics News

Three days after receiving $25 billion in federal bailout funds, Bank of America Corp. hosted a conference call with conservative activists and busine...

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Star Trek 11: The Obama Factor

Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.23.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Klingon, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, William Shatner, J.J. Abrams, Rick Berman, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Cold War, Entertainment Weekly, Barack Obama, Star Trek, Spock, Paramount Studios, Politics, Star Trek: Enterprise, Brent Spiner, Zachary Quinto, Star Trek: Nemesis, Entertainment News, Mr. Spock, Star Trek: Voyager, Gerald Abrams, Farscape, Babylon 5, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Leonard Nimoy, James T. Kirk, Gene Roddenberry, Patrick Stewart, Captain Kirk, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

After years of inactivity, Star Trek has been re-energized by J.J. Abrams, and supposedly transformed in such a way that connects it to its roots while making it relevant again.

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America's Middle Class Needs Right to Bargain, Secure Contracts -- Like CEOs Have

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 09.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Collective Bargaining, Smithfield Foods, United Food and Commercial Workers, Wal-Mart, Employee Freedom Action Committee, Economy, Human Rights Watch, Employee Free Choice Act, Rick Berman, Middle Class, Free Trade, Usw, Medicaid, United Steelworkers, Walton Family, National Labor Relations Board, Global Corporations, Wall Street Journal, U.S. Supreme Court, Tobacco Lobbyist, Agriprocessors Inc. Immigration, Kosher, Minimum Wage, Union Busters, Lance Compa, Health Insurance, Meatpacking, Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, Union, Undocumented, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

When uninsured Wal-Mart workers get sick, American taxpayers foot the bill. They pay for coverage through Medicaid, the health insurance plan for the poor. That's what the Walton family, which owns Wal-Mart, banks on.

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