Let’s Find a Name, and Platform Planks
A week ago we voted on preferred primary challengers to Barack Obama in 2012 who might also agree to run as the nominee of a new third party in the general election. There seems general agreement that...
View ArticleUPDATE: Voting Deadline Extended!
It’s been a big news day. Elizabeth Edwards’ passing; the detention of Julian Assange; President Obama’s capitulation on tax cuts for the rich. So we’re extending until Thursday morning your...
View ArticleA Line Too Bright to Ignore
Many of you have been active participants in the effort, begun here in September, to craft a long-term response to the utter selling out of average Americans by the Washington and Wall Street elite....
View ArticleNew Progressive Alliance: Our Manifesto
Voting took place last week here at MyFDL to choose a movement name and platform topics in the effort to mount a primary challenge to Barack Obama in 2012. The results are now tabulated, and “MyFDL”...
View ArticleChallenge 2012: Ending Identity Politics
We did it again. In 2008, the American electorate bit – hook, line and sinker – on the promises of a charismatic orator who promised us everything and has failed not just to deliver, but even to...
View ArticleDemocrats: Still Losing the Message War
Many here (myself proudly included) get pretty tough on Ed Schultz from time to time. Mainly because he’s an idiot. Still, I keep spoiling an otherwise perfectly good lunch hour by switching to his...
View ArticleMcKibben’s Activism: Naiveté or Fealty?
Many here at the Lake went a little (more) crazy when 350.org founder and much-admired climate expert Bill McKibben folded on Keystone XL’s Tar Sands pipeline. After staging a memorable protest outside...
View ArticleA Voter’s Guide for Electoral Activists: 54 Alternative Party Candidates from...
The general membership of the New Progressive Alliance last week voted to endorse each of 54 alternative party candidates in 23 states running for offices at the local, state, and national levels....
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