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9 Dec

CNN Erroneously Reports DREAM Act Dead When Very Much Alive

Â Prior to a scheduled vote on the DREAM Act today, Senator Dick Durbin spoke on the Senate floor about this country’s critical need to keep the talents of DREAM Act kids in the U.S. In light of what happened...
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9 May

Economic Refugee News: Weekly Roundup

Economic Refugee News Weekly Roundup is a weekly summary of those stories that caught the focus of immigrants' rights activists, promoting immigration reform, racial unity, compassion, American freedom, and justice for...
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12 Apr

Hillary Clinton now being seriously discussed for SCOTUS?

While the rest of the media speculated on who would be the next Supreme Court Justice nominee to replace John Paul Stevens, they completely ignored one possibility: Hillary Clinton. Last week, Project Economic Refugee projected that Hillary Clinton would enter...
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29 Jan

@Markos on economic refugees @RI4A

Markos (Kos) Moulitsas has beenÂ posting content in support of an immigration reform that would help solve the humanitarian crisis that we currently have of economic refugees immigrating into the U.S.Â Let’sÂ show him support by linking back, distributing his material, and...
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22 Jan

Blog for Healthy Families

January 22nd is Blog for Choice Day 2010 and I’m supposed to blog about this question: “whatÂ does the slogan Trust Women mean to you?”Â Â But if I just did that blindly, I’d be doing a disservice to the pro-choice movement that...
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21 Jan

Cindy McCain has come out

…in support of gay marriage: …I wonder if daughterÂ Meghan McCain had anything to do with thisÂ (Meghan has previously made her support for gay marriage known publicly, angering the extreme conservative wing of the Republican Party).Â Â To read the statementÂ that John McCain...
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21 Jan

Justice Sotomayor shows her progressive colors

For those still in doubt about where she stands in terms of judicial ideology: Sonia Sotomayor joined progressive judges John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer in voting against overturning a 63-year-old law designed to restrain the influence...
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31 Aug

The American Plan

Â [polldaddy poll=1936924] The recent hoopla on healthcare has shed light onÂ an issue that has been painfully obvious to many progressives:Â even with a President that is a great communicator of progressive values, in terms of ongoing long-term communications,Â conservatives continue to dominate...
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26 Apr

Swine Flu

So apparently we’re under swine flu watch.Â Yes, it’s all over the news, like the bird flu and the mad cow desease were.Â They way the media is talking about it, you’d thinkÂ our civilization is coming to an end a-la...
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