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The Danger of Ignoring the Latino Vote This November

The Danger of Ignoring the Latino Vote This November By Bill Gallegos. Posted Oct. 18, 2022 We wish to thank Bill Gallegos for allowing us to post this article, which first appeared in the Nation magazine on Oct. 17, 2022. Generally, Latinos are rendered invisible in US mainstream (and a lot of the Left) media.   The …

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The Left and the Midterms: Fighting the Right and Building the Left. Learning  from UNITE HERE and Seed the Vote.

The Left and the Midterms: Fighting the Right and Building the Left. Learning from UNITE HERE and Seed the Vote. By Larry Hendel. Posted on October 8, 2022. We on the left have a complicated relationship with the Democrats, especially at the federal level. Remember the debates of yesteryear? Al Gore vs. Ralph Nader. Supporting Michael …

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Kansas Pro-Choice Victory a Referendum on Getting Back to the Grass Roots

Kansas Pro-Choice Victory a Referendum on Getting Back to the Grass Roots By Mary Ann Heimann. Posted October 1, 2022. Kansans’ August 2 vote not to throw out a constitutional amendment that protected the right to abortion was a surprise to many.  But a look at Kansas history shows that it was a pro-choice stronghold …

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Overproduction and Shoddy Practices Undermine Chinese Confidence in Housing Market

Overproduction and Shoddy Practices Undermine Chinese Confidence in Housing Market By Jimmy Higgins. Posted September 18, 2022 For the last year the Chinese real estate giant Evergrande has been standing on the edge of collapse. It has paper assets of 350 billion dollars in real estate. It held the mortgage down- payment money for 1.1 million …

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Massive Turnout Needed to Defeat the Right in 2022 – Voter Registration, Early Voting and Mail-in Ballots Require Big Push in October

Massive Turnout Needed to Defeat the Right in 2022 – Voter Registration, Early Voting and Mail-in Ballots Require Big Push in October By Eddie Wong. Posted September 17, 2022. Labor Day marks the beginning of the fall push for the Nov. 8, 2022 election in which the Democratic Party needs to win to maintain its …

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Pro-Israel Lobby Launches Major Electoral Campaign to Bolster Israeli Apartheid and Settler Colonialism

Pro-Israel Lobby Launches Major Electoral Campaign to Bolster Israeli Apartheid and Settler Colonialism By Larry Hendel. Posted August 16, 2022. Unity News 2022 thanks Larry Hendel for his post, which was previously published at The Stansbury Forum and Portside. One of the most closely watched races in the May primary cycle pitted Texas conservative Democrat …

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Privatizing Medicare Is Happening Right Before Our Eyes

Privatizing Medicare Is Happening Right Before Our Eyes by Peter Shapiro. Posted August 3, 2022. “Medicare for All” has been a popular demand among progressives, particularly since Bernie Sanders made it a cornerstone of his presidential campaigns. And with good reason—-historically, Medicare has been one of the few bright spots in the train wreck that is …

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Making Sense of Our Wacky Two-Party System: Hint, It’s Actually Six Parties

Making Sense of Our Wacky Two-Party System: Hint, It’s Actually Six Parties Interview with Carl Davidson by Larry Hendel A few years ago, Carl Davidson, longtime activist, antiwar and community technology organizer, author and founder of the Online University of the Left, created a tool to analyze the contradictions within the US Congress and our …

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When Should We Stop Excusing the Russian Invasion? Ukraine, Self-determination, and the National Question

When should we stop excusing the Russian invasion? Ukraine, Self-determination, and the National Question By: Bill Fletcher, Jr., Bill Gallegos, and Jamala Rogers. Posted July 23, 2022. Unity 2022 wishes to thank the authors for allowing us to republish their article which appeared on May 11, 2022 in New Politics. The following is a new introduction to …

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