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		<title>Vote For Union Members&#8217; Best Interests!</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/11/vote-for-union-members-best-interests/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/11/vote-for-union-members-best-interests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=13079</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I sit up many of nights during these election years wondering how many of our USW brothers and sisters vote for candidates who are openly anti-labor. Are they so blinded by distrust of people who may not look like themselves or who come from a different side of the tracks that they would rather vote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Holiday Message</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/26/a-holiday-message/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/26/a-holiday-message/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Jared Bernstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitch McConnell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Payroll Tax Cut]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tea party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12821</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We may be at an interesting inflection point. - Large majorities have had it with Congressional dysfunctionality. - Influential Republicans like Mitch McConnell are recognizing the above and view it as a threat to their party. - Reasonable conservative voices are writing smart pieces that seem to be reaching for hybrid positions on social and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why We May Be In Store for a Passionless Presidential Race</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/16/why-we-may-be-in-store-for-a-passionless-presidential-race/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/16/why-we-may-be-in-store-for-a-passionless-presidential-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social security]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12094</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Polls show Americans angrier and more polarized than at any time since the Vietnam War. That’s not surprising. We have the worst economy since the Great Recession and the worst politics in living memory. The rise of the regressive right over the last three decades has finally spurred a progressive reaction. Occupiers and others have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did FDR Call It Or What?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/07/15/did-fdr-call-it-or-what/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/07/15/did-fdr-call-it-or-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Influence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Fairness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shocking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=10037</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[FDR’s premonitions about the ways Republicans would treat Social Security, saving homes, and work for the unemployed are stunning and scary. Take a look:]]></description>
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		<title>Dear America (non-Weiner version)</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/16/dear-america-non-weiner-version/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/16/dear-america-non-weiner-version/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Maher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boehner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campaign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jon Kyl]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lawrence O'Donnell]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mitch McConnell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSNBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obamacare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Ryan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rachel Maddow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rush Limbaugh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tea party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trump]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States government]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=9403</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Republicans want to wipe out Medicare, keep giving tax breaks to rich people who don&#8217;t need them, defund Planned Parenthood, and the list goes on. Something to think about for the 2012 election. What kind of country do you want to live in? Note: I hope Anthony Weiner gets his life back on track, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deficit Reduction Requires Shared Sacrifice: Will the President Stand Tall?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/03/deficit-reduction-requires-shared-sacrifice-will-the-president-stand-tall-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/03/deficit-reduction-requires-shared-sacrifice-will-the-president-stand-tall-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>May</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the Hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eficit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nutrition]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=9118</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Bernie Sanders Independent U.S. Senator from Vermont Congress and the White House are now focused on how we deal with our huge deficit &#8212; a crisis brought about over the last 10 years by two wars, tax breaks for the rich, the Wall Street bailout and a prescription drug program &#8212; all unpaid for. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats’ Polite, Insidious ‘Pro-Union’ Arm Twisting</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/28/democrats%e2%80%99-polite-insidious-%e2%80%98pro-union%e2%80%99-arm-twisting/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/28/democrats%e2%80%99-polite-insidious-%e2%80%98pro-union%e2%80%99-arm-twisting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 16:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From In These Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget Cuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Bybee]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=8893</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Next to Republican governors like Ohio’s John Kasich and Wisconsin’s Scott Walker, it would be very easy for Democrats to look more sympathetic to union rights, the needs of working people and the ever-shrinking middle class.

The Democrats lost 63 House seats and six Senate seats in the 2010 mid-terms in the industrial midwest as key Democratic constituencies stayed home. Now would seem to be a great opportunity for the Democrats to rebuild their relationship with unions and their supporters in the insecure middle class.

The party could seize this opening by promoting an agenda stressing the creation of public jobs via desperately-needed infrastructure re-building and that the privileged top 2 percent of corporations ought to bear a fair share of the tax burden needed to maintain services and balance state budgets. The agenda's premise: The primary victims of the recession should not suffer more due to cuts in services they desperately need (e.g., education, healthcare).]]></description>
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		<title>An Unconscionable Silence</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/26/8933/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/26/8933/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 16:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Our Allies and Partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=8933</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rick Sloan Communications Director, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Where are labor&#8217;s allies? Where are Israel&#8217;s friends? Where, exactly, are the supporters of civil rights, immigrant rights and women&#8217;s rights? Each core Democratic constituency is under attack. Many of the attacks are vicious and unrelenting. Some are presented as nuanced disagreements, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Returns to His Moral Vision: Democrats Read Carefully!</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/18/obama-returns-to-his-moral-vision-democrats-read-carefully/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/18/obama-returns-to-his-moral-vision-democrats-read-carefully/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama budget]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=8366</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By George Lakoff Author, “The Political Mind,” “Moral Politics,” “Don’t Think of an Elephant!” Last week, on April 13, 2011, President Obama gave all Democrats and all progressives a remarkable gift. Most of them barely noticed. They looked at the president&#8217;s speech as if it were only about budgetary details. But the speech went well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Democrats Should Never Have Started Paying Ransom to Avoid a Shutdown</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/10/why-the-democrats-should-never-have-started-paying-ransom-to-avoid-a-shutdown/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/10/why-the-democrats-should-never-have-started-paying-ransom-to-avoid-a-shutdown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget Cuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Shutdown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax cuts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=7811</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley It&#8217;s called ransom. That&#8217;s what Republicans are demanding from the White House and congressional Democrats for not pulling the plug on the government. Problem is, when you pay ransom once, you&#8217;re almost begging to pay it again. And that&#8217;s exactly the pickle the Obama [...]]]></description>
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