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Posted by | April 7, 2012
When Democrats Aren’t Democrats: The Story of Rhode Island

How did voter ID laws pass in a blue state? How many RI state legislators are anti-choice? What's the deal with civil unions? Why does everyone keep saying tax breaks...

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Posted by | April 7, 2012
The Battle for Congress: Q&A on the 2012 Elections

The editors of Daily Kos Elections invite you to join them for an in-depth Q&A about the 2012 elections. Thirty-three Senate seats and all 435 seats in the House are...

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Bold Progressive 99% Candidates in 2012

Bold progressive candidates—those who publicly commit themselves to the 99% movement and a populist economic vision—are running for Congress across the nation this year. Progressive infrastructure is giving these candidates...

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Saving Public Transportation: A Matter of Social Justice

In Rhode Island, public transit service is under perennial threat of service cuts and fare increases due to a flawed funding mechanism, the gas tax. Transit systems around the country—from...

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Occupy Goes Home: The Occupy Movement and the Foreclosure Crisis

The Occupy movement has been taking homes throughout the year and plans to continue throughout the summer. What does this campaign contribute to larger progressive goals? Should the progressive movement...

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Pushing Back: How Labor Groups are Fighting Concessions and Workplace Abuses in the Down Economy

Leveraging a weak economy and a diminished union base, corporations are now expecting more and more out of their workers while offering less and less in return. This panel will...

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The Heart of the Beast: How the Grassroots is Taking on Big Banking

Wall Street crashed our economy, perpetrated widespread fraud on millions of homeowners, bankrupted our communities and continues to inject unfettered corporate money into our democracy. That's the bad news. The...

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Why Can’t Apple Make Your iPhone in America?

Building on investigative reporting in WIRED Magazine and the New York Times, this session will explore why a company so good at design is so lousy at high-tech manufacturing, particularly...

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Foreclosure Fraud: How the Banks Broke the Housing Market and How We are Fighting Back

Despite the fact that we've been in a foreclosure crisis for more than four years, precious little attention has been paid to how banks have used faked documents to steal...

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Why the Fed is the Most Important Economic Issue You Know Nothing About

Years worth of bailouts and bank regulation debates have placed a new level of political focus on the Federal Reserve. It has been a topic for the Occupy movement and...

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