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... a s a k id g r o w in g u p in a small town in But we do not have a voting representative in Congress. O f Colorado, the 4th of July meant fireworks—from course, we pay Federal taxes. This is, literally, “taxation without big rockets to sparklers—and lots...

... as soon as possible. We tell this story to show what inevitably happens when a political party—in this case the Republican Party—packs federal agencies, commissions, institutions, and the U.S. court system with uncompromising ideologues who seek to block and crush the opposition rather than to engage...

... federal money is allocated quickly undermines the common misconception that individualized debt burdens are necessary to support public services. The simple math illustrates that the problem is one of priorities, not practicalities. But the argument is not that the federal government needs to employ...

... be just, and there is no moral reason why a larger state of all its citizens would be preferable to two smaller states. In their best versions, the two-state and one-state solutions could be seen as converging in some form of federal association of two peoples within the larger territory, as Hannah...

... of the experience of the 1960s. The Marxist-Leninist Left had suffered enormous losses at the hands of the federal government and its right-wing allies. The famous 1956 Khrushchev report of Stalin’s crimes had resulted in the disillusionment of a large fraction of the Communist Party — the leading organization...

..., it created a mortgage insurance system though the Federal Housing Administration so that the taxpayers became the guarantors of much of the mortgage debt. As part of policy, the Federal Housing Administration also created redlining maps to ensure that homeownership was not opened to African Americans...

... braced and drew energy from settlers in northwestern Virginia, westernT Maryland, and Kentucky. By 1794, when the federal gov­ ernment acted to suppress them, thousands...

... the Occupation. Last fall a new youth outcrop of Jewish Voice for Peace emerged at the annual Jewish Federations of North America conference in New Orleans, where fourteen young Jews held their own leadership summit and penned a “Young Jewish Declaration,” which states (in part): We are punks and students...

... public banks at the state and federal levels to do good things. Public banks could finance start-ups in green technology that are currently languishing and provide financing for cooperatives that traditional banks spurn. They can be financed by an economic stimulus package approved by Congress...

... costs exceeded their budget. The reason for this is that every state, and now our federal government, ignored the data showing that we cannot achieve universal and affordable health care as long as we re­...

... their health insurance from private insurers, mostly through their employers, with some buying it directly from insurance companies. About half as many—87 million according to the latest report from the Census Bureau—are covered by Medicare (the federal program for the elderly...

... is calling now for WWW.TIKKUN.ORG San Francisco Jewish Federation, which had earned a reputation earned had which Federation, Francisco San Jewish or criticisms gentle the are. how nuanced matter no enemy, as an is perceived settlers of line the the toe not does...

... by a spasm of anti-immigrant sentiment remarkable for its ferocious nationalism and uncompromising xenophobia. The persecution of neighborhoods, the raiding of workplaces, and the breakup of families by federal immigration authorities has accelerated inside this country. Meanwhile, a policy of increased...

... that explicitly put their citizens’ rights ahead of corporate interests, despite the existence of state and federal laws to the contrary. These communities have banned corporations from dumping toxic sludge, building factory farms, mining, and extracting water for bottling. Many have explicitly refused...

... essential goods and services. Through a restructuring of the economy that gained traction during the Reagan revolution of the 1980s, an alliance ofWall Street institutions and their captive regulators—the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury Department—made fi­ nance the dominant...

... from a Vietnamese person. What would I say? My answer came at a Massachusetts Board of Rabbis meeting. A group of Jewish student activists were going to stage an anti-war protest in front of the JFK Federal Building in Boston and wanted rabbis to join them for protection. In 1972 even non-violent...

... poverty. Presently, our nation assigns less than four-tenths of one percent of our federal budg­ et to address the poverty needs of the Third World. Those organizations, and especially the United Nations...

.... I call myself “Sunny” now — a nickname from childhood — because it suits me in my bright and shining new life! In 1992, after seventeen years, the federal court overturned my sentence and conviction by granting my habeas corpus petition, and Rabbi Richter was there to help me celebrate. We had...