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Resilience: Worker Co-ops - The Evergreen Cooperative Laundry

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Are you tired of local communities who prostrate themselves before corporations: giving them tax breaks, handshake deals on by-law enforcement, and preferential treatment by politicians (often for cash contributions), only to see the same corporations outsource jobs overseas, pollute the environment, and send profits far away? Well, there is an alternative, one that has been growing together in Cleveland, Ohio since 2009. More below.

I found a place to live, but I may be on less.

I've spent the last few months staying at the Santa Fe Inn. I am considered to be disabled and live on SSI, but not SSDI. That means I get $730 a month, and it's lead to a lot of interesting problems in staying alive.

Normally people in my circumstances have various programs that help them, but there are so many funding problems in Pueblo, Colorado that I essentially never get access to those programs.

Open Thread - Time Edition, Friday, May 13, 2016

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? ~Dr. Seuss~

Time us a precious commodity. Time is boundless, yet there is not enough time. Time is easily lost, but difficult to find.

American Politics - What a Zoo.

My first post here, so hello everyone. I am 70. I have never bothered with American politics except asking my family members who live in the USA to vote for Nader. When i was in the University I supported the Socialist Party. I am a Bolivian citizen living in the Windward Islands (Caribbean), member of Evo Morales party Movimiento Al Socialismo and before that whatever old school anarcho-communist party was running.

Pelosi Helps GOP Keep The House

Bernie, because fuck this shit!

The DCCC suffered another stunning defeat by local Democrats Tuesday. Once again their handpicked recruit-- this time some guy named Cory Simpson in West Virginia-- was rejected by local voters in West Virginia's second congressional district, who voted to nominate former state legislator Mark Hunt and tell Steve Israel and his corrupt Beltway party bosses to stay out of their affairs.

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You Better Learn It Fast, You Better Learn It Young

I’ve seen 30 years of Democratic establishment contempt for progressives, I’ve seen their seven stages of reactionary attacks too many times, I’ve seen the condescension and the slander and the scorched earth. I’ve heard their endless excuses for enabling evil, their immoral pandering to the Powers-That-Be, their strident demands for party loyalty while progressive values burn in the bonfires of the Beltway and the Four Horsemen of Triangulation saddle up for yet another nationwide ride.

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