Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The National People's Action and the Public Accountability Initiative has released its groundbreaking report, "Big Bank Tax Drain: How Wall Street Speculation and Tax Avoidance are Starving Public Revenues." Make Wall Street Pay: Advertisement EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Wall Street banks caused the economic crisis that has left millions unemployed, foreclosed-on, and without prospects … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Will the Arizona Republic, which recently published a multi-part "investigative report" on public employee pensions based largely upon biased research and liberal quotations from the anti-union Goldwater Institute (as if they have any credibility), publish this report from McClatchy Newspapers? Why employee pensions aren't bankrupting states:  From state legislatures to Congress to … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Today marks the 100th anniversary of INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY, a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. International Women's Day honors the work of the Suffragettes, celebrates women's success, and reminds of inequities still to be redressed. The first International Women's Day event was run … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: During the 1980s this country went through a farm crisis in which thousands of family farmers lost their farms to foreclosure (including friends and neighbors of mine). The Midwest Farm Crisis of the 1980s: On March 17, 1986, protesters used tractors and other farm machinery to surround the Livingston County FmHA office … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: "King" Russell Pearce gets a lot of media attention for his anti-immigrant hate mongering. But one of his early "successes" (sic) was Prop. 200 in 2004, which required that voters be able to produce both identification and proof of citizenship prior to being allowed to vote in any election. This was a … Read more