Progressive Briefing for Thursday, August 30
Vietnam demands compensation from Monsanto for victims of Agent Orange, California on brink of mandating 100 percent clean energy by 2045, Sanders vs. Amazon intensifies, and more.
Taxpayers are subsidizing corporations that pay CEOs hundreds of times more than workers, study...
Author says the findings should fuel the movement to "use the power of the public purse to crack down on corporations that refuse to share the wealth."
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, August 29
Hurricane Maria caused 2,975 deaths in Puerto Rico, California joins nine other states and enacts trio of gun control bills that affect domestic violence offenders and more.
California joins nine other states and passes trio of gun control bills that affect...
“People at risk of harming themselves or others should not have easy access to firearms."
1968 DNC protests, 50 years later: Organizers recall coalition building & running pig for...
“Rioting is not going to get it. What you have to do is get organized.”
Why the DNC’s Superdelegate reforms were a major victory for the Sanders wing
This package of reforms is just a starting point for a wholesale transformation of the party.
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, August 28
Student loan watchdog quits, progressives launch campaign against Kavanaugh, air pollution harms cognitive performance, and more.
Progressive coalition pressures Senate Democrats demanding their opposition to Brett Kavanaugh
"Democratic senators should be united in opposition to Kavanaugh, instead of letting Republican senators ram through the confirmation of a nominee who was selected to protect the president from prosecution."
Sanders backers win major reforms as Democratic Nat’l Committee votes to limit superdelegate power
Democrats voted to vastly reduce the power of superdelegates in choosing the party’s presidential nominee.
Victory in superdelegates fight means: Grassroots can win
Leadership must come from the grassroots. That’s how superdelegates met their long-overdue demise.