The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Is the Postal Banking Movement Being Too Careful to Succeed?
Failure of imagination at the top undermines hard work at the grassroots. Because at the end of the day, a people’s banking system strikes bipartisan terror in the hearts of the elites.
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Cheaper, Faster, Better: The Time for Postal Banking Is Now
Postal banking represents a national, nonprofit public option to the private, for-profit banking system – and a solution for the one in four Americans who are underbanked.
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Staples Plan to Privatize the Post Office Hit An Unexpected Obstacle – Organized Labor
Teachers, firefighters, government workers and service employees form the backbone of an effort that's putting big box retailers and USPS management on notice.
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Why Banking at the Post Office Beats Payday Loans – and Wall Street
The USPS used to offer financial services – and proponents say that bringing them back could buffer us from financial meltdowns and alleviate poverty.
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Now Is the Moment to Save Our Postal Commons
Because postal services, owned by the people, are part of the commons, the attack on public postal utilities amounts to an attack on the commons itself.
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For Our Vote To Make a Difference, It's Time to Try New Tactics
The victory of Seattle's socialist city council member Kshama Sawant shows how grassroots efforts are creating an opening for independent political action by working people — even in the tightly controlled world of electoral politics and the two-party system.
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Save My Mail! Could A New Union Leadership Stop Sell-Off of the Post Office?
At the core of this struggle is whether the post office is going to be decisively privatized and turned over to profit-making entities and low-paid, non-union jobs, or remain a public entity that serves all people and maintains good-paying union jobs.
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"Strength In Union": The Labor Movement Will Be Televised
A new made-for-TV documentary series unpacks the history of the U.S. labor movement in five one-hour episodes, combating anti-union propaganda at a time when union power is waning and collective-bargaining rights are under attack.
