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Why Obama's Base Is Angry at Him
In a piece at CNN, former White House adviser Van Jones argues that the president’s base is angry because instead of asking for more from the rich to shore up Social Security, his budget proposal would take more from the middle class and poor. … Some may call this a knee-jerk response from liberals who…
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Occupy Wall Street: Now Let's Focus on Solutions
In a blog entry at the Huffington Post, author and president of RebuildtheDream.com Van Jones says that the Occupy Wall Street movement has triggered a major shift in the national dialogue on inequality, the economy and democracy. Now it’s time to begin talking about solutions, he says. … Now it’s time to begin a conversation…
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Wall Street Protests: Which Side Are You On?
In a blog entry at the Huffington Post, Van Jones, president of RebuildtheDream.com, says the Occupy Wall Street movement is a protest against America’s broken government. He says protesters have gone to the scene of the crimes leveraged against America’s future. Wall Street has long been the home of the biggest threat to American Democracy.…
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Upholding Our End
The landslide election of Barack Obama represents something extraordinary—but not just because our president-elect has brown skin. What is equally extraordinary is the rainbow-colored, mass movement that consolidated itself to catapult him into the White House. Even as we celebrate the phenomenon that is Obama, let us not lose sight of an even bigger phenomenon—that…
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