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SKIP TO SECTIONS (links in progress):- Occupy Wall Street
- Messaging, Framing
- Economy, Taxation, Debt/Deficits, Jobs, etc.
- Immigration, Racism, Xenophobia, etc.
- Health care reform
- Money in politics
- The Conservatives:
- Elections,
- Big Myths,
- Culture Wars
- abortion
- anti-worker
- State and Local
- Civil Liberties
- War, Military, Defense
- Federal Elections/Campaigns/Officials (including Obama, Scott Brown, Lynch etc)
- GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING, CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT
- THE PROGRESSIVES, LIBERALS AND DEMOCRATS
- LGBT
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OCCUPY WALL STREET - Occupy Politics/Occupy the Burbs press coverage
- #OccupyBoston: a beginner's guide by a beginner
- #OccupyBoston and the 99% (why we in the sleepy burbs need to get involved and proactive)
- Why We #Occupy (the Burbs) [handout]
- Occupy Wall Street : "What's it all about?": political aims and message of the OCCUPY movement
- Framing the message of Occupy Wall Street
- Meeting Notes from "Occupy the Burbs"/"Occupy Needham" event in October
- "In Needham - activists see a need to bring Occupy movement to the suburbs" - The Boston Globe
- Playing the Victim - http://bit.ly/Nz1NDS
- Big Lies, False Equivalency, and How Do They Get Away With It?! - http://bit.ly/Nz1qJp
- Messaging and "Framing" for 2012
- Framing our values/winning the argument
- Welcome to the Echochamber (the funhouse that is right-wing media noise machine)
- (see also: Vast Wasteland. - http://bit.ly/Nz1UPC )
- (see also: Rhetoric, Violence, Cross-Hairs and Arizona)
- (see also: Framing the message of Occupy Wall Street)
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ECONOMY, TAXATION, DEBTS/DEFICITS, JOBS ETC- Pay Your Taxes: Fight For Freedom - http://bit.ly/Nz2q0d
- Stimulus - Response - Stimulus - Response - http://bit.ly/Nz1F7o
- Ryanomics = Romneyomics - http://bit.ly/Nz1xVc
- Sabotage the economy: Republican political agenda
- Economic Amnesia
- Stimulus Response Stimulus Response (economic stimulus)
- Deficits
- Blame Bush
- Pay Your Taxes: Fight for Freedom (income tax)
- Austerity Now!
- On Bootstraps (is the American Dream real?)
- It's the Economy, Stupid
- Flat Taxes, "9-9-9" = Tax the Poor
- On Unions
- Class Warfare
- The Middle Class Fights Back: Wisconsin and more
- Dying Middle-Class = Dying American Greatness
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IMMIGRATION, XENOPHOBIA, RACISM, ETC. - Need Action Now: 3 Strikes Provision is Bad Policy
- write up/post legislator meeting: 3 Strikes Updates
- legislators respond (roundup): 3 Strikes: Legislators Respond
- Blame the Brown People
- the DREAM Act: Some quick info
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HEALTH CARE REFORM- Medicare: It's Socialism and It Works
- The Affordable Care Act, Part II (Costs of healthcare reform implementation, ongoing updates)
- "Obamacare" and the Republican House: Re-Arguing Health Care Reform
- States leading the way on healthcare reform: Massachusetts and Health Care Reform (and don't forget Vermont)
- see also: Notes from a Lame Duck: Misinformation, Lie of the Year, 9/11 Responders, Child-Marriage, and Second Chances at DADT and DREAM
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MONEY IN POLITICS- Citizens United and SuperPACs
- Regulating Money in Political Campaigns: Where are the MA leaders?
- Money, Influence, Corporations, Corruption, Lobbying (includes Kochs, Pope)
- see also: Vast Wasteland. - http://bit.ly/Nz1UPC
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THE CONSERVATIVESElection Chicanery
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The Big Myths, "Big Government" and The Teaparty- So much red tape! - http://bit.ly/Nz1JDV
- Big, Big Government!! - http://bit.ly/Nz1BVa
- Ayn Rand. Sociopath. - http://bit.ly/Nz1ngy
- Big Government
- On Obstruction (including: Time to Fix the Filibuster?)
- $R-Money (Romney)
- Enemies from the Chalkboard
- Hypocrisy or Honest Cognitive Dissonance?: GOP
- Conservatives 2012
- SOCIALISM!!!
- Rhetoric, Violence, Cross-Hairs and Arizona
- Reaganing
- Tea Party (And libertarianism and Ayn Rand)
- Tea Party vs. the Grand Old Party
- Keeping Track of the GOP/Teaparty Leadership in 112th Congress
- Oy vey, Sarah Palin.
- See also: Guns, Mental Illness
- The Culture Wars ("family values," abortion)
- Guns, Mental Illness
- See also: Rhetoric, Violence, Cross-Hairs and Arizona
- Contraception, ACA, Religion and the ACORNification of Planned Parenthood
- Push Back: GOP overreaches on Family Planning, Workers' Rights
- Time to End the Culture War. Time to Elect Women.
- See also: The Culture Wars
- Push Back: GOP overreaches on Family Planning, Workers' Rights
- See also: ECONOMY posts (ABOVE)
- See also: Class Warfare
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STATE AND LOCALElections
- State-Wide (Governor, treasurer, auditor, etc)
- State-Level (State reps/senators)
- Needham/Local
- Needham Town Election Day 2012! - http://bit.ly/Nz2jBN
- Today is ELECTION DAY in Needham! (Tue Apr 12, 2011)
- 13% Turnout - Town Election Results - Apr 12 2011
- We the Needham People said NO to 'Citizens United'! - http://bit.ly/Nz28q2
- Run for TOWN MEETING
- 3 Strikes Provision is Bad Policy (Also: 3 Strikes Updates and 3 Strikes: Legislators Respond)
- Local Action, Big Impact (campaign for our communities)
- Making Needham a Green Community: Green communities/stretch code
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ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT- So Much Red Tape! (on "regulation" as big myth)
- Energy, Environment, Climate
- (see also: Making Needham a Green Community: Green communities/stretch code)
- (see also: Money, Influence, Corporations, Corruption, Lobbying-- big oil, big kochs)
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FEDERAL ELECTIONS/CAMPAIGNS/OFFICES (PRESIDENT, SENATE, CONGRESS)Beat Scott Brown
- Report from the Field: Elizabeth Warren (Jim's Take)
- Spotlight on the Senatorfold
- My Coffee with Scott
- Votes
- Scott Brown the Flip-Flopper Votes Against Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell Repeal -- After Saying He'd Vote For it
- URGENT: Last Legislation: Your Calls are Needed--DADT, DREAM, START
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MA 9th District / Rep. Stephen Lynch and now MA-04 / Rep. Barney Frank- Barney, we hardly knew ye. (Redistricting and MA-04)
- Rep. Lynch's Needham Town Hall: The Surprising and the Not (11/2011)
- Mark Your Calendar: Congressman Lynch in the District in October 2011
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Obama, Presidential Election 2012
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GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING, CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT- (I'll send you to a project I've been working on, devoted to grassroots organizing: Progressive Massachusetts!)
- Cynicism, Apathy, Distraction, Disengagement
- See also: At least the War on Voting is Going Well
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THE PROGRESSIVES, LIBERALS AND DEMOCRATS - Blue Massachusetts and Better Democrats
- New Progressive Era?
- See Also: Framing our values/winning the argument
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LGBT- President Obama Comes Out: He Supports Gay Marriage - http://bit.ly/Nz2blP
- Gays get married. Get over it.
- Pentagon Study on the Effects of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" Repeal: Military More Mature than Congressional Republicans
- Notes from a Lame Duck:
- Misinformation, Lie of the Year, 9/11 Responders, Child-Marriage, and Second Chances at DADT and DREAM
- Consequences and Reactions to Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell Repeal
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