Tag: Green Party

Attack on St. Louis Homeless Foreshadows Things to Come

Dec 20, 2016

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Attack on St. Louis Homeless Foreshadows Things to Come by Don Fitz The sub-freezing temperature was dropping. As the snow began to fall, many felt their hands were too cold to hold signs during the December 17 action. Two dozen had answered the Green Party call to picket the mayor of St. Louis for his…
There are no Democratic or Green saviors: Get in the streets!

Nov 20, 2016

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fitzdon

There are no Democratic or Green saviors: Get in the streets! « Systemic Disorder Regardless of the outcome of November’s U.S. elections, what will count most is what happens in the streets. As Frederick Douglass put it plainly a century and a half ago, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Power concedes…
The Twilight of Liberalism: Decline of the Working Families Party

Aug 29, 2016

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fitzdon

The Working Families Party – darling of The Nation-reading liberals in New York State – is in trouble. The NY Daily News reported this week that major unions (SEIU 1199, United Federation of Teachers, and the Hotel Trades Council) had quietly dropped financial support of the organization in late 2014.