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		<title>Labor Becomes Part of the National Conversation: The Best and Worst of 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 20:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted on The Century Foundation blog. This was a tumultuous year for working people and their families. From the grassroots uprisings last winter to the low-wage workers’ strikes at year’s end, 2012 saw many people coming together for the first time and finding their voices. Below are the items that I would highlight as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Save the Democrats, the Captives Must Break Free</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1407</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 03:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at The Nation, I was honored to be invited to participate in a discussion on Saving the Democratic Party (Dec. 24-31, 2012 issue), alongside other contributors including Congressman Keith Ellison, NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous and JIm Hightower. Below are my thoughts on what it will take to bring the party back to its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walmart Organizing Comes of Age: An Interview With UFCW Organizing Director Pat O&#8217;Neill</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1392</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published at Truthout. United Food and Commercial Workers&#8217; Pat O&#8217;Neill talks about the difficulty of organizing retail and the new tactics that have been developed, shoppers&#8217; support and Walmart workers&#8217; extraordinary courage in the rolling actions leading up to Black Friday. This fall has witnessed a wave of rolling strikes and other employee actions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help Obama Find His Shoes</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1390</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published at In These Times. President Barack Obama’s re-election is a huge relief—we dodged the Romney/Ryan bullet. However, that’s not the same as winning a better future. If Obama’s first term is a prologue to the second, we should not expect to see much progress in strengthening the rights or bargaining ability of workers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Teachers Unions Lead the Way to Better Schools</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1388</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally Published on In These Times. I have a concern: Teachers are getting pummeled. Too often, they are being demonized in the media and blamed by politicians for being the cause of bad schools. Right-wing governors, power-hungry mayors and corporate “reformers”—all ignoring root issues such as poverty and inequality—have scapegoated the people who have devoted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama Reelected—But Where Is the Pathway to Good Jobs?</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1385</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally Published on The Century Foundation Website. With Barack Obama’s reelection last night, we witnessed the labor movement once again, as in every successful Democratic presidential race in recent decades, saving the president. Its ground troops and financial backing provided the bulwark to shore up Obama’s lead against Romney. By aiding in Obama&#8217;s victory, unions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lesson From Chicago: We Need Resources and Accountability to Avoid a Two-Tiered Education System</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1380</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published on the Hufffington Post. The Chicago teachers&#8217; strike may be over, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel may have replaced the Chicago schools CEO, but the underlying issues that caused the rift between teachers and public schools officials haven&#8217;t gone away. Because our education system is such a vital public asset, we cannot resolve these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Betrayal of America&#8217;s Middle Class Was a Choice, Not an Accident</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1229</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 02:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted on Truth-Out. The outsourcing of good jobs, the elimination of pensions, rampant home foreclosures; skyrocketing higher education costs and mounting debt: Given these stark realities, the American middle class seems to be sinking fast. The renowned reporting team of Donald Barlett and James Steele insists it is no accident. Trade policy, tax cuts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Top Takeaway From the Teachers&#8217; Strike: We Need Collaboration to Fix Public Schools</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1234</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 22:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally Posted on Huffington Post. &#8220;We are striking to improve the conditions in the schools. Right now the children are getting a raw deal.&#8221; That statement came from a striking member of the Chicago Teachers&#8217; Union&#8230; in 1969. It still resonates in September 2012, when the CTU&#8217;s members have again walked a picket line. Although [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prop 32&#8242;s Rich Backers Trying to Bully Working People Out of Politics&#8230;Again</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1237</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally Posted on the Huffington Post. In their attempts to silence the political voice of working people, conservative groups and millionaire donors have been disingenuous and anti-democratic. But you can&#8217;t say they haven&#8217;t been persistent. Proposition 32 &#8212; a so-called &#8220;paycheck protection&#8221; measure that will appear on California&#8217;s ballot in November &#8212; is hardly a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Labor Boycott Charlotte?</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1242</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally Published in the American Prospect. The Democratic National Convention is less than a week away, and liberals are getting fired up. But at least one of the party&#8217;s key constituencies isn’t quite so excited. That group is organized labor. Last July’s announcement that the convention would be held in the staunchly anti-union city of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rooting out Fake Job Creators Without serious accountability, the rallying cry for more &#8220;job creation&#8221; is likely to amount to nothing more than empty rhetoric.</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1240</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally Posted on Otherwords. Ed Gillespie, a senior adviser to Mitt Romney, recently declared on Face the Nation that that President Barack Obama &#8220;is hostile to job creators,&#8221; reciting a standard Republican canard. Especially since movements such as Occupy Wall Street began shining a spotlight on inequality, right-wingers have tried to rhetorically position the rich [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Boycotting Hyatt Is More Than Just a Union Issue: An Interview With Activist Cleve Jones</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1245</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted on Truth-Out. If the labor movement is to have a future in the United States, it will depend on its ability to show how the issues it champions are not just the concerns of a narrow special interest group. Rather, it must demonstrate that the well-being of all Americans depends upon the fight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Obama Win Back The Youth Vote?</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1249</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted on the Huffington Post. In 2008, young people in America &#8212; including many who voted in their first presidential election &#8212; rallied behind a youthful senator from Illinois campaigning on the promise of change and hope. Now the incumbent in the White House, Barack Obama faces a difficult challenge in recapturing the youth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Are Working People Invisible in the Mainstream Media?</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1254</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted on Truth-Out. Best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich &#8211; probably best known for her 2001 book &#8220;Nickel and Dimed&#8221; &#8211; has long been on the forefront of promoting stories about working people in an often hostile media environment. Recently, she has been heading the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. An endeavor inspired in part by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After the 99% Spring: What Comes Next</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1257</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally Posted on Truth-Out. An interview with Ilana Berger and Tracy Van Slyke of The New Bottom Line. As a still-recent addition to the organizing scene, The New Bottom Line is hardly more than a year old. Yet, in its short life, the network has been at the fore of several high-profile campaigns &#8211; including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Interfaith Organizing Matters: Social Change Starts With Values</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1260</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted on Huffington Post. Sometimes, as an activist, you look upon the world and think you will never be able to see the changes you seek in your own lifetime. It&#8217;s easy to despair, to succumb to the isolation and self-doubt that come from being a thoughtful person trying to change the status quo. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Bank of America, We’re Not Leaving Our Homes</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1262</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally Published in Yes! Magazine. Since the real estate bubble burst, conditions for a national fight against foreclosures and evictions have seemed ideal. “Too big to fail” banks have refused to offer homeowners struggling with high mortgage payments any meaningful relief, despite receiving billions of dollars in public bailouts. More than one in five home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Can Labor Win if It Backs Obama&#8217;s Re-Election?</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1265</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally Posted on Truth-Out. Amy Dean talks to Richard Kahlenberg and Richard Bensinger about reforms that could finally give battle-weary union members a reason to send Obama and other Democrats back to Washington. As usual in an election year, the labor movement has a lot of fair-weather friends. Late last month, when hard up for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student Activism as the Tip of the Spear: Raising the Minimum Wage in San Jose</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1267</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally Published in the Nation. Given an assignment in a sociology class with Professor Scott Myers-Lipton to examine how organizing could make a difference in their community, a group of thirty San Jose State students put their studies into practice and launched a campaign that has gained the support of young labor activists, community groups [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Occupy Our Homes Move Congress?</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1270</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally Posted on The American Prospect. With Occupy Our Homes—the growing movement to fight foreclosures and evictions—community organizations and Occupy activists have teamed up in cities throughout the country to defend at-risk homeowners, pressure banks to renegotiate mortgages, and keep families in their homes. This effort has resulted in some impressive local victories. At the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming to a Bankster&#8217;s Mansion Driveway Near You: Occupy Our Homes</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1274</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally Posted on Truth-Out. As one of the more promising offshoots of the Occupy movement, Occupy Our Homes &#8211; the grassroots effort to prevent evictions and foreclosures &#8211; has continued to organize throughout the winter. With millions of Americans underwater on their home loans or otherwise facing distress about their mortgages, the issue has the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How &#8220;Occupy Our Homes&#8221; Can Win</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1276</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally Posted on Truth-Out. Since most of the original Occupy encampments were evicted by wintertime, the question now is, what&#8217;s next for activists? One of the most popular suggestions is &#8220;Occupy Our Homes,&#8221; a campaign in which occupiers around the country would do actions at foreclosed houses or at bailed-out banks that are throwing people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Wall Street: A Protest Against a Broken Economic Compact</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1279</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally Published in the Harvard International Review. During the early months when Occupy Wall Street maintained tent cities in lower Manhattan and other metropolitan areas around the country, the occupations attracted an array of young counter-culturalists and itinerant radicals. To many people seeing the images of the encampments on the news, it looked like a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 99 Percent Takes Office: Lessons From a Rhode Island Special Election</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1282</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally Posted on Truth-Out. If labor and other progressive groups are going to rebuild an economy that works for the 99 percent in America, they need to do great organizing in workplaces and communities and they also need to build deep coalitions among themselves. But that&#8217;s not enough. They also need to translate their organizing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Progressives Won the Labor Rights Showdown in Ohio</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1285</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted on Truth-Out. Last week, the labor movement and its allies scored a major victory with the repeal of Ohio Senate Bill 5 (SB5), a piece of anti-union legislation signed by Republican Gov. John Kasich. In a referendum that gave voters a chance to speak on the issue, Ohioans resoundingly rejected the law, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unity Is Strength for Progressives</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1288</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business and liberal elites have long invested in developing collaborative leadership. In Occupy Wall Street and beyond, grassroots progressives are now getting into the game of working together. Something huge is happening in this country. It&#8217;s been a long time since we&#8217;ve seen this level of populist activity directed at the right targets: the big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s a Jew to do?</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1222</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted on Jspot.org. In the United States during the 1930s, revolution was in the air. With the stock market crash and the ensuing Great Depression, the broken economy was failing most Americans. This gave rise to a spectrum of responses, providing communists and socialists on the left and fascists on the right with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Wall Street and America’s Democratic Tradition</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1220</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally Published in Democracy Journal. I was recently talking with some friends who work at the Chicago Board of Trade. Hearing the opinions voiced by Occupy Wall Street protesters, the traders agreed that they’d seen disturbing changes within their industry. While they might have written off criticisms 15 years ago, they’ve since watched the financial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New &#8220;Unity Unions&#8221; Self-Organize to Confront Workplace Abuses</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/1218</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally Published on Truth-Out. The last five years have been grim and isolating ones for immigrants and working people, right? Overall, this may be the case, but if you talk with organizers at Fuerza Laboral, an independent workers&#8217; center in Rhode Island founded in 2006, you might get a different impression. Despite difficult times, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Role for Labor in the Progressive Uprising? A Conversation With Stephen Lerner</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article was originally published on Truthout.org for Amy&#8217;s Walking the Walk series.  No force did more to build the American middle class than organized labor. In recent decades, however, unions have been decimated. Despite concerted efforts to turn the tide, the movement now represents only 7 percent of workers in the private sector. Never have working people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jobs Act&#8217;s Pre-Emptive Concessions Show More Pressure Needed Within and Outside Washington</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was originally published on Truthout.org for Amy&#8217;s Walking the Walk series.   President Obama&#8217;s speech about jobs last week was a step forward. But we need to do better. We need to do better on policy, and better on politics. Here&#8217;s what that means: On policy, Obama&#8217;s jobs proposal is a lot like his administration&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Back Labor Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article was originally published on Truthout.org. While many would say there is little for working people to celebrate as we approach this Labor Day, I see new hope in the rising number of working people standing up to fight back for themselves and all working-class families. Despite an unprecedented wave of attacks on our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unions as Leaders for Better Schools: An Exclusive Interview With Randi Weingarten</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article was originally published by Truthout.org for Amy&#8217;s Walking the Walk series. Parents, teachers and students across the country are busy preparing for the return to school in the fall. For teachers, anticipating the needs their students will have in the new school year goes beyond the text books and the syllabus. They are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the Real Lesson of Wisconsin for Progressives?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article was originally published by Truthout for Amy&#8217;s Walking the Walk series. Despite coming up short of retaking control of the Wisconsin Senate, yesterday&#8217;s recall elections sent a clear signal to conservative politicians who are using false pretenses to slash social safety nets, scapegoat public employees and immigrants, and take away the rights of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fight for a Progressive America Begins Today &#8211; and Does Not End in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This piece was originally published by Truthout. A couple of days ago, a friend was telling me about two competing rallies that took place in Washington, DC, last weekend. In the first, about 50 people attended a Tea Party rally calling for drastic cuts to the government. Meanwhile, a progressive rally against a sell-out debt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local Energy, National Breakthroughs: An Interview With Deepak Bhargava of the Center for Community Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article was originally published by Truthout for Amy&#8217;s Walking the Walk series. &#8220;Staying true to progressive traditions means always asking the question, &#8216;Who is really getting the most screwed in our society?&#8217; and always having a commitment to going there.&#8221; That&#8217;s how Deepak Bhargava, executive director of the Center for Community Change (CCC), explained [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking Down the Silos: Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article was originally published by Truthout for Amy&#8217;s Walking the Walk series. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want just a seat at the table. We want to run the table,&#8221; Hugh Espey, the executive director of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, said to me. &#8220;We want to run the table in order to win policies that put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exclusive: Van Jones on What We Can Learn From the Tea Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 04:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This piece was originally published by Truthout.org for Amy&#8217;s Walking the Walk series. In late June, Van Jones &#8211; a former &#8220;green jobs&#8221; czar in the Obama administration and currently a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress &#8211; officially launched a new organization known as Rebuild the Dream. The group&#8217;s first mission is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Reasons for Hope in the Next Election Cycle &#8211; and One Reason Progressives Must Do More to Win</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 03:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally Posted on Truth-Out. Just a few months ago, conservatives had the momentum, emerging victorious from the midterm elections and claiming a sweeping mandate for their policies. In states across the country, newly elected Republican governors launched a radical drive to roll back workers&#8217; rights and gut social programs. While many states are still trying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An A-Team for Progressive Messaging in the States</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 19:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article was originally posted on Truthout. &#8220;Not everything that comes from D.C. is always better,&#8221; says Denise Cardinal. At a time when some of the most crucial political battles in America are taking place at the state level, we cannot wait for a progressive communications strategy to come down from national groups. Cardinal, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons for Progressives From Power Shift Youth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 03:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend of April 15, some 10,000 young organizers gathered in Washington, DC to build the movement to address climate change. The third Power Shift conference was overwhelmingly stocked with young people under the age of 30, and it offered a breath of fresh air for the wider progressive community. The conference participants combined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Unions Break From the Democrats? What a Real Declaration of Independence Would Mean</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 03:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 20, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) President Richard Trumka issued a warning to those Democratic candidates who rely on labor&#8217;s resources when running for office but hold social movements at arm&#8217;s length once in office: become champions for working families, he told them, or don&#8217;t assume that unions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spreading Models of Success: The Denver Doctrine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 03:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a time when working people are fighting defensive battles to preserve essential services at the state and national levels, it is all the more important that labor and community advocates are also building for the long term. Some of the best forward-looking policy making by progressives in the past decade has happened at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative Attacks Are a Losing Strategy, but Progressives Must Do More to Win</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/796</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally Posted on Progress Illinois. Electoral irregularities and promises of recounts have thrown into question the final outcome of the hotly contested race over a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat. Yet, these complications notwithstanding, the elections in Wisconsin last week sent a clear message: The conservative attacks by Republican governors represent a losing strategy. Regardless of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Does the Labor Movement Go From Here?</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/765</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally Published in Yes! Magazine. Thousands of people gathered on the streets of St. Paul, Minnesota on April 4 to take part in a &#8220;March for the Middle Class.&#8221; As they made their way from the St. Paul Cathedral to the State Capitol, they carried signs that defended the rights of working Americans and chanted, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Alternative to Scapegoating: Creating Green Jobs &amp; Environmental Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published at Truthout.org as a part of a solutions-oriented profile series called &#8220;Walking the Walk&#8221; According to Republican governors in places such as Wisconsin, Ohio, and Indiana, our states are in crisis and the only solution is to squeeze middle class employees. Unions, in their view, are part of the problem. And if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Right-Wing Strategy Creates a Thousand Local Battles</title>
		<link>http://abdventures.com/archives/696</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michigan? Ohio? Indiana? In the wake of Republican Governor Scott Walker&#8217;s over-the-top attacks on public sector workers in Wisconsin, many people are asking which will be the next state to draw the public spotlight. However, looking at the state-level assaults by these arch-conservatives as individual battles might be the wrong approach. Ultimately, the right-wing maneuvers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Budget Solutions, Not Scapegoats: Lessons from an Oregon Victory</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published at Truthout.org as a part of a solutions-oriented profile series called “Walking the Walk” This week, as President Obama unveiled the federal budget and state legislatures across the country continued heated battles over their own financial crises, we are continuing to hear a single message from Republicans &#8211; that people want a smaller [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thank You Governor Walker?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With 20 years in the labor movement under my belt, I looked at the actions taken last night by Wisconsin&#8217;s Republican legislature and Governor Scott Walker and had an unusual response.  It wasn&#8217;t despair or anger. Though once the shock wears off from seeing tens of thousands of workers stripped of their rights, I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ABD on Alter NOW Podcast</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the March edition of the Alter NOW podcast, Amy B Dean discusses the question &#8220;Do Unions Still Matter?&#8221; Her answer &#8212; &#8220;YES!&#8221; Listen to highlights to see why and learn more about the modern labor movement. To hear the complete interview, click here.]]></description>
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		<title>ABD on ABC&#8217;s Topline</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amy B Dean joined ABC Topline hosts Rick Klein and Jonathan Kar to discuss the situation in Wisconsin.]]></description>
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		<title>Not a Union Member?  Why You Should Care About Wisconsin (or Ohio or Michigan)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After two weeks of protests in Wisconsin, we are now watching demonstrations spread across the country. Over the weekend, the online advocacy group MoveOn.org helped mobilize tens of thousands of people, who marched in all 50 state capitals in support of Wisconsin workers. Demonstrators are speaking out against attacks by Republican governors in Ohio, Indiana, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wisconsin Shows Need to Move Beyond Scapegoats</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The actions of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and other elected leaders who are followinghis lead speak to a striking failure of leadership: We live in an economy that has undergone massive transformations over the past several decades. Yet, instead of reckoning with the impact of these changes and understanding state-level budget troubles in light of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ABD Quoted in the Wall Street Journal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 04:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Amy B. Dean was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article by Jonathan Weisman, titled &#8220;Obama Sits Out State Fights.&#8221; &#8220;Everybody is looking to the president on this one,&#8221; said Amy Dean, a labor activist and former AFL-CIO official in California. &#8220;The grassroots infrastructure of the Democratic Party is organized labor.&#8221; To read the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ABD on Uprising Radio</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amy B Dean went on KPFK’s Uprising Radio to talk about President Obama’s 2011 State of the Union address. Listen to the interview below.]]></description>
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		<title>A New Blueprint for Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 04:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A revived progressive program must be built year-round, at the local level By Amy B. Dean Published: 11/10/2010 In These Times The finger pointing and soul searching has begun. Most of this post-mortem discussion is focusing on a narrow period of time, asking what went wrong with the Obama administration during the president’s first two [...]]]></description>
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