March anniversary is an opportunity to look at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy

March anniversary is an opportunity to look at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy » The Commercial Appeal

Good article in the Commercial Appeal on the 50th Anniversary March on Washington and the legacy of MLK and the 1963 March, which was about more than civil rights, it was a march for jobs, peace & freedom and economic justice.  Still progressive causes today...

Bernie Sanders on Why We Need a Stronger Progressive Movement

Bernie Sanders on the Independent in Politics on Vimeo

Bernie Sanders on the Independent in Politics from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.

Healthcare-NOW! - Memphis AFL-CIO Labor Council Endorses HR 676

Healthcare-NOW! - Memphis AFL-CIO Labor Council Endorses HR 676

Unions for Single-Payer Healthcare

Healthcare-Now!

Memphian Lindstrom Collecting Signatures to Repeal Citizens United

Memphian Lindstrom Collecting Signatures to Repeal Citizens United | Politics Beat Blog

Join Move to Amend and let's Overturn Citizen's United and take our democracy back!

Action Alert: Healthcare for All Rally (THURSDAY)

Healthcare for All Rally

Healthcare-Now! Will be joining Tennessee Health Care Campaign and Physicians for a National Healthcare Program and other activists at a rally/press conference the day the Supreme Court releases their veridict on the Affordable Health Act ("Obamacare")--supporting a single-payer (Medicare for All) universal healthcare plan... We expect the decision will be released THURSDAY morning, if so, meet us at the Federal Building on N. Main downtown Memphis at 5 PM

If the decision is not released on monday, check back for new day!
What: Rally/Press Conference
When: THURSDAY (June 28) 5 PM
Where: Federal Building, Downtown Memphis

Healthcare-Now!
http://www.healthcare-now.org/
Contact: Jim Maynard
jmaynard1963@earthlink.net
(901) 619-2679
Physicians for a National Healthcare Program
http://www.pnhp.org/
Contact: Dr. Arthur Sutherland, III, MD, FACC
901 237-6440
Tennessee Health Care Campaign
Brad Palmertree
Director of Communications
Tennessee Health Care Campaign
www.thcc2.org
Office: 615.227.7500 Ext. 8
Progressive Democrats of America
http://pdamerica.org/
Memphis DSA (Democratic Socialists of America)
http://www.memphisdsa.org/

Boycott Fox News-Memphis

TurnOffFox | Turn Off Fox in Your Town

Turn off Fox Memphis!  Let local businesses know you will not continue to do business with them if they are forcing their customers to watch right-wing anti-gay, racist FOX NEWS.

Here's a list of Memphis businesses and restaurants to boycott if they don't Turn Off Fox:

McDonalds (nearly all locations in Memphis)
1325 Ridgeway


Tools:
The Case Against Fox News
Instructions

Boycott Fox News
Fox News Sponsors

Occupy Wall Street May Day 'General Strike' Planned With Unions, Immigrant Groups

Occupy Wall Street May Day 'General Strike' Planned With Unions, Immigrant Groups

Occupy Memphis

Join the 99% Spring

The 99% Spring is Coming

Join The 99% Spring

Why 99% Spring? | | AlterNet

99% Spring: The People Are Not Powerless

Join Greater Memphis 99% Spring Training

Occupying Memphis: Protesters celebrate third month of Wall Street movement » The Commercial Appeal

Occupying Memphis: Protesters celebrate third month of Wall Street movement » The Commercial Appeal

Congressional Progressive Caucus : Hot Topics : CPC Introduces Restore the American Dream for the 99% Act

Congressional Progressive Caucus : CPC Introduces Restore the American Dream for the 99% Act

Sanders Files ‘Saving American Democracy Amendment’ | Common Dreams

Sanders Files ‘Saving American Democracy Amendment’ | Common Dreams

Occupy Memphis

OccupyMemphis.org

OccupyMemphis Facebook Page

Occupy Memphis holds its first anti-Wall Street protest at Court Square » The Commercial Appeal

Occupy Memphis holds its first anti-Wall Street protest at Court Square » The Commercial Appeal

99 Percent

99 Percent: Memphis joins the national Occupy movement.

Memphis Progressives

This blog is to help progressives in memphis communicate, share and organize, so if your group has an announcement, upcoming event, etc. send them to me an I will post them... and if you know any progressive groups that we can add to the directory on the side let me know..

Jim
jmaynard2@yahoo.com

ALEC Exposed (Tennessee)

From Tennessee Citizen Action:

ALEC EXPOSED(TN) See what the corporate backed "American Legislative Exchange Council" has been up to in Tennessee.

"Justice For All" Rally Seeks to Unite Memphis Progressives

"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.

Haley Barbour Drops Out of Presidential Race, in Which He Would've Come in Dead Last | AlterNet

Haley Barbour Drops Out of Presidential Race, in Which He Would've Come in Dead Last | AlterNet

The House of Boehner

House GOP Ushers in Corporate Takeover

The House of Boehner

House GOP Backtracking on Promised "Reforms"

GOP Budget -Cutter Not Clear On How to Cut Deficit

Republicans' Radical Plans for Budget Threatens Economic Security for Millions

New Congress Begins with Charades and Debt Threats

Meet the new GOP Committee Chairs