commonwealinstitute.org - 12/13/2008
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This ground-breaking Commonweal Institute report by David C. Johnson and Leonard M. Salle analyzes in depth the conservative movement’s multi-pronged attack as a long-term, strategic process aimed at privatizing education. The report provides a detailed plan for how public education advocates ...
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Blue America: Progressive Infrastructure
Firedoglake —
... progressive candidates start from scratch in the late summer, have to decide "issues" to run on, develop a message and then reach their voters – on their own from scratch.
Like the frog in heated water, progressives didn’t see what was happening. It took Clinton’s impeachment and the 2000 election theft to really shake and wake people up. Then came the blogosphere. People started to study and understand the right and began to see a model for responding. (The Commonweal Institute was a pioneer in this effort, and I ...
Progressive Infrastructure
Seeing the Forest —
... Meanwhile progressive candidates start from scratch in the late summer, have to decide "issues" to run on, develop a message and then reach their voters – on their own from scratch. Like the frog in heated water, progressives didn’t see what was happening. It took Clinton’s impeachment and the 2000 election theft to really shake and wake people up. Then came the blogosphere. People started to study and understand the right and began to see a model for responding . (The Commonweal Institute was a pioneer in this effort, and ...
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