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

Here Come the Tea Baggers!

Here's how the Tea Party will defend the corporate rich, attack workers and the poor, and try to roll the USA back to the 1920s:

10 Ways the Right-Wingers Will Try to Wreck Any Economic Recovery

Tea Party Madness

Meet the Freshman Class of Right-Wing Extremist Members of Congress

Tea Party Caucus Took $1 Billion in Earmarks

The Tea Party's War on Schools

The Tea Party Moron Complex