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Hellraisers Journal: Review of John Spargo's "The Bitter Cry of the Children,” Enslaved at Ages 4 & 5!

Submitted by JayRaye on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 12:59pm

Capital has neither morals nor ideals; its interests are always
and everywhere expressible in terms of cash profits.
Capital in the United states in the twentieth century calls for children
as loudly as it called in England a century ago.
-John Spargo

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Friday March 16, 1906
From The New York Times: "The Children of the Poor," Part II

In its March 3rd edition, the Times published an in-depth review of the newly published book by John Spargo which documents the suffering of the millions of children who are born and reared in poverty within our great American prosperity. Yesterday we present part one of that review, entitled "Children of the Poor." We conclude the article today with part two.

CHILDREN OF THE POOR [Part II]
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A Passionless but Terrible Description of
Their Condition in This Country.*
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Bitter Cry, Spargo, Little Tenement Toilers, Feb 1906.png

It Is Time To Think The Unthinkable

Submitted by Szaephod on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 12:33pm

First, thank you, thank you, thank you, powers-that-be for making this forum, this lifeboat, this desert oasis of sanity available, this place to escape from that other place, that Daily… whatever.

And now, the unthinkable? Give up? Lose? Certainly not! But change our perspective and underlying assumptions about what we can and cannot do.

Fellowship of the ring strategy

Submitted by Borkrom on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 11:33am

We must fight a long hard battle with the outstanding of our overview goals. Moreover, in my mind we need to take the "Fellowship of the ring strategy", we need a plan, work on the plan and we work hard while flying under the radar (eye). Therefore, lets win more states and pick up more delegates, and maybe win the nomination and general election. If not at least shape the platform and narrative and direction of the party and future.

My vision of C99P

Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 11:23am

Unlike a certain web site, which claims that a militaristic neoliberal is a "progressive", C99P actually is reality based.
In that spirit, I'm going to state the obvious: Bernie's chances have gotten pretty slim.
As far as I'm concerned, a candidate's chances have absolutely nothing to do with the decision of whether you should vote for him/her or not. Personally, I almost always vote for someone who is obviously going to lose.

Nature of Justice Determined in Politics, Truth politics, Power Politics

Submitted by DonMidwest on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 11:01am

This was posted on dailykos.com

Feel free to repost anywhere you think it might be worthwhile

I tried to just copy and paste it here but the formatting of quotations didn't come through so here is the link

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/16/1502242/-Nature-of-Justice-Det...

Don

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