"Justice For All" Rally Seeks to Unify Progressive Causes - WREG

"Justice For All" Rally Seeks to Unify Progressive Causes - WREG

A coalition of progressives groups representative women, labor, immigrants, and the LGBT community, organized a rally Saturday in Memphis to protest recent actions by the conservative Republican Tennessee legislature to restrict the collective bargaining rights of public employees, cut funding for Planned Parenthood, and to rollback and prohibit local laws to prohibit discrimination against gays and lesbians and LGBT people. 

In addition to anti-gay and anti-labor legislation at the state level, the Memphis City government is considering proposals to privatize sanitation services and destroy the local AFSCME labor union that Dr. MLK came to Memphis to march with to protest low wages prior to his assassination.

TN RootsCamp

Over 100 progressive activists and organizers gathered in Memphis today for the Tennessee RootsCamp

For more information visit the RootsCamp site

Rebooting the American Dream

Thom Hartmann, America's No. 1 Progressive Radio Host, has published a great book for progressives: Rebooting the American Dream--11 Ways to Rebuild our Country.

This book can be a great resource and road map for progressives across the country to organize and lobby our representatives to defend Social Security and fight for a REAL universal healthcare program, and take back our government from the corporate elites who are backing the Tea Party takeover of Congress.

Thom is releasing individual chapters for FREE on Truth-out.org
(You can also buy the book and help support Tom's work and Truth-Out.org)

Chapter One: Bring My Job Home!

Be sure to listen to Thom's daily radio program, it is the national townhall of the progressive movement in the U.S.