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Category Archives: News
An Evening with Elsie Fox
On May 21, Montana Women For will be sponsoring An Evening With Elsie Fox. Elsie is an extraordinary 101 year old political activist who was involved with Union Organizing in the United States in the 1930’s and has stayed politically … Continue reading
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Act Now to Oppose Legislative Attack on Clinic
Rep. Joel Boniek (R-Emigrant) is proposing a bill (HB 661) to make it more difficult for licensed physicians to provide medical services by adding licensing fees compliance, inspections and other requirements. His bill is particularly directed at the Mountain Country … Continue reading
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Forestalling Foreclosures
A new group of professionals, homeowners and concerned citizens is forming to plan strategies to help local homeowners who are having trouble making their mortgage payments avoid foreclosure and loss of their home. The group is looking for bankers, lawyers, … Continue reading
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Save our food supply
Friends, Help stop a former Monsanto executive from working in the White House! Currently America is in the middle of a record food safety crisis and it could get a whole lot worse. There’s a possibility that former Monsanto executive … Continue reading
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We need to understand the bailout
A Bank Bailout That Works by JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ This article appeared in the March 23, 2009 edition of The Nation. March 4, 2009 The problem with America’s banks is not just one of liquidity. Years of reckless behavior, including … Continue reading
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Obama’s War
Obama’s War? Comment by KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL This article appeared in the March 9, 2009 edition of The Nation. February 18, 2009 Two decades and two days after the Soviet army withdrew from its disastrous occupation of Afghanistan, it saddens … Continue reading
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Big Name Writers to Read at the Danforth
Tim Cahil, adventure writer and humourist Kira Salk, war correspondent and National Geographic writer and first woman to walk across Papua New Guinea Scott McMillion, journalist and auther of “Grizzly” Alston Chase, biographer and naturalist and Jack Russell dog expert … Continue reading
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Labor’s Man to Advise Treasury
Labor’s Man Joins Treasury Team by WILLIAM GREIDER February 16, 2009 People getting nervous about Barack Obama’s plans to rescue the financial system got a kernel of good news they probably did not recognize. Ron Bloom of the United Steelworkers … Continue reading
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Here’s how to save on the military budget
Congressman Frank’s Plan To Reduce Military Spending 1. Withdrawal From Iraq: A timely withdrawal from Iraq could create $105 billon in savings in year one, if the recommendations from Center for American Progress report “Building a Military for the 21st … Continue reading
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Obama’s Grade? What about OUR grade?
The Huffington Post APRIL 29, 2009 Robert L. BorosageCo-Director of the Campaign for America’s Future Posted April 28, 2009 | 08:55 PM (EST) Obama’s Grade at 100? What About Our Grade? Grading a president after 100 days always strikes me … Continue reading →