On AlterNet: populist

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Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite

Bruce E. Levine, Chelsea Green Publishing. May 13, 2011.

Author Bruce Levine describes how government-corporate alliances have created a passive populace, and how Americans can recover dignity, unity, and the energy to do battle.

How to Achieve Real, Populist Reform

Digby, Hullabaloo. November 19, 2009.

Lock our lawmakers in a room with the brilliant Dr. Elizabeth Warren until they start enacting policy that helps working people.

Jim Hightower, Raising Hell

Jonathan Rowe, YES! Magazine. August 20, 2008.

The Texas populist's new book shows how ordinary Americans can in fact make a difference, and have.

Checks for $600 Won't Fix Our Economy

Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. March 28, 2008.

America can't shop its way to greatness, and this one-time, government-funded shopping spree won't lead us to a sound economy.

Ralph Nader, An Unreasonable Man

Deanna Zandt, February 1, 2007.

Deanna Zandt: A new documentary gets down to the bone on the life and times of America's consumer advocate...

Jon Tester: A New Kind of Populist

Joshua Frank, AlterNet. December 15, 2006.

Newly elected Montana Senator Jon Tester is an NRA-approved Democrat who wants to redeploy troops from Iraq and repeal the PATRIOT Act. Is Washington ready for him?