California's state deficit led to furloughs for already-crunched workers--two of them share their stories of how anti-worker propaganda causes real problems.
Robert L. Borosage, Blog for Our Future. August 8, 2011.
Conservative and corporate elites are stoking the turmoil, and using fear to panic a public into accepting harsh measures that would be otherwise unacceptable.
Economic historians will look back on this era as a time when policy-makers damaged Americans' welfare with ideologically driven, self-inflicted wounds.
The President must make a clear statement of who is responsible for the crisis -- the corporate class and the right and those politicians who enable them.
Amy Goodman, Noam Chomsky, Democracy Now!. February 22, 2011.
Chomsky: "What has to be done is what's happening in Madison, or Tahrir Square. If there's mass popular opposition, any political leader is going to have to respond.
Tens of thousands of protesters are flooding the State Capitol in protest of Governor Walker's proposed bill that would end 50 years of collective bargaining for Wisconsin workers.
