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01/13/09 Concrete Steps to Engage Iran in Positive Diplomacy |
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Engaging Iran in Diplomacy |
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01/13/09 Take Action: Support Congressional Resolution for Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza |
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Call for a Ceasefire and Humanitarian Access to the Gaza Strip |
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01/13/09 Economic Meltdown Funnies |
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16-Page Comic on the Recent Economic Crisis |
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01/13/09 Jobs With Justice's Week of Action for a People's Bailout |
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Successful Teach-ins, Jobs With Justice's Week of Action for a People's Bailout |
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12/05/08 Pass local resolutions in support of a Main Street Stimulus package |
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An announcement from the National Jobs for All Coalition. |
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12/01/08 Town Hall Teach-Ins scheduled thus far. |
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12/01/08 ORGANIZE A TOWN HALL MEETING OR LOCAL TEACH-IN ABOUT THE ECONOMIC CRISIS |
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11/10/08 Progressives React: Post-Election Analysis |
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A discussion of the election results and what this means for a new administration, the U.S. Congress, and progressive policy changes in 2009 and beyond. Guests include: John Cavanagh, Steve Cobble, Bill Fletcher, Jr, and Karen Dolan. Hosted by the Institute for Policy Studies. Link. |
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10/28/08 Chuck Collins's talking points on the economic crisis |
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Senior scholar at IPS and Director of IPS's Program on Inequality and the Common Good Chuck Collins gives his talking points on the Economic Crisis. Link. |
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10/23/08 Status of the U.S.-Iraq Agreement |
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Some required reading about the implications of the US-Iraq Agreement. The only way to really understand this agreement is recognizing that this is between occupied and occupier. To see an English version of the text, visit this link to yesterday's e-mail newsletter. To better understand the response in Iraq and the broad scale of nonviolent resistance, click here. |
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10/21/08 IPS Mandate for Change |
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IPS Mandate for Change Election Series |
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10/20/08 CBPP Testimony & Policy Points: States and the Weak Economy |
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Testimony and Policy Points: States and the Weak Economy. Link. |
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10/09/08 The American Empire's $650 Billion Bailout Already Passed Congress |
This article covers the current US military spending and gives warning as to what will happen if the US does not change its course.
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10/07/08 States Face Two Immediate Financial Issues: Short-Term Borrowing and Big Budget Deficits |
According the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, States face immediate financial concerns about their ability to access credit markets for short-term borrowing coupled with big budget deficits.
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08/20/08 The West Should Get Its Facts Straight |
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In this article, Florian Lipowski, an IPS intern, goes over the West's role in the 2008 South Ossetia War and how its actions impacted relations between the West and Russia. |
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10/01/08 IPS Plan to Pay for Recovery |
As Congress debates the particulars of the inevitable bailout, one key question has gone largely unexplored: Who will pay for this mess?
Lawmakers in Congress appear to have assumed that the federal government will simply borrow more money to foot the bill for the bailout. The national debt ceiling will rise to a whopping $11.3 trillion, up from $8 trillion a year ago.
But this rush to borrowing merely shifts the bailout burden onto the backs of future taxpayers. Congress needs to change course — and develop a “pay as we go” plan that makes Wall Street pay. The lion’s share of bailout funding should come from the high-finance gamblers and the wealthy CEOs who have so profited from our casino economy.
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One Vote Day! Be part of the Hip Hop Caucus's World Record for voter registrations. Link. |
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09/29/08 Economist Dean Baker's Weekly Roundup |
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Get Behind the Hype on the Economic Crisis: Economist Dean Baker's Weekly Roundup. Link. |
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09/17/08 UFPJ Talking Points #61: U.S. Militarism & Global Tensions Rise Together |
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In these talking points, IPS fellow Phyllis Bennis discusses United States unilateralism. Bennis argues that as the economy is falling, the United States will rely more on its powerful military. The talking points will go over why unilateral militarism has not been effective while advocating the need for a peace and justice movement within the U.S. |
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09/12/08 CBPP: How Projected Surpluses Became Deficits |
This report analyzes how the United States dropped from a projected surplus of $710 billion for 2009 to a projected deficit of $546 billion. Experts Richard Kogan and Gillian Brunet examine the role tax cuts and increases in security-related spending contributed to this deficit.
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