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| | A Brief Overview of Progressive Education |
 | | Led by Dewey, progressive educators opposed a growing national movement that sought to separate academic education for the few and narrow vocational training for the masses. | | | These elements of progressive education have been termed "child-centered" and "social reconstructionist" approaches, and while in extreme forms they have sometimes been separated, in the thought of John Dewey and other major theorists they are seen as being necessarily related to each other. | | | Although there are numerous differences of style and emphasis among progressive educators, they share the conviction that democracy means active participation by all citizens in social, political and economic decisions that will affect their lives. |
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| | America's Progressive Community - Common Dreams NewsCenter/NewsWire |
| | NGLTF is the leading progressive civil rights organization that has supported grassroots organizing and advocacy to strengthen the gay and lesbian movement at the state and local level while connecting these activities to a national vision of change. | | | Progressive Majority has a clear and bold purpose: To elect progressive champions who will help change the direction of this country. | | | We will do this by building a nationwide member network that will provide much-needed early support to progressive candidates — helping them win election and bringing our values back in to the halls of government. |
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| | Progressive Suckers -- 09/26/2003 |
| | The "Elections Statement 2000," published on the website of Democratic Socialists of America, notes "We operate within progressive coalitions as an open socialist presence and bring to these movements an analysis and strategy which recognizes the fundamental need to democratize global corporate power." | | | The movement away from the use of 'liberal' and toward 'progressive' in American politics is one rooted in the hope of duping uninformed voters into supporting candidates and parties bent on advancing a socialist agenda. | | | "This strength of the old communist movement was nurtured by the group of communists within the old CP [Communist Party] that eventually organized the Progressive Labor Movement (PLM) in 1962, predecessor of the Progressive Labor Party," reads the white paper. |
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http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=\Commentary\archive\200309\COM20030925f.html
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| | Princeton Progressive Review |
| | But we believe that you will find our Phase II activities to be very, very well-worth the extra fundraising efforts, as the overall goal of this second phase is, in quite a real sense, to build a genuine, grassroots college progressive movement like nothing America has ever seen. | | | It basically reinforces every stereotype about the progressive movement that we’re trying to dispel here at the | | | Let me start with this: I have never been the greatest fan in the world of Arianna Huffington, though I respect her for her contributions to the progressive movement. |
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| | Open Directory - Society: Work: Labor Movement: News |
| | Labor Educator - Publishes news, pro-union pamphlets and advocates democratic reform within the union movement. | | | Labor Party Press - News, commentary and information resources from Labor Party, a coalition of labor organizations and other organization advocating for workers rights and progressive values. | | | Labor Notes - Activist trade union newspaper advocating grassroots democracy within and radicalization of the trade union movement in the United States. |
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http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Work/Labor_Movement/News
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| | Progressive Bolivian Income Tax Stopped by Angry Mobs by John Leo Keenan |
| | But after this horrific confrontation, I think the progressive income tax movement will be history in Bolivia for a long time to come; politicians know now that it would be self-destructive to try to impose that tax on those who can barely make ends meet; such citizens are scot-free now and for good. | | | Much of the public here is identifying the progressive income tax with "neoliberal" policies imposed by the IMF, while in their mind the president is considered to be in cahoots with the IMF and other imperialists. | | | Bolivia has plenty of federal and local taxes but it is one of the few places without a national income tax. |
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/keenan1.html
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| | The Oakland Press: Opinions: Just fix the tax system, don't cut its heart out |
| | The enactment of a progressive federal income tax, in 1913 under President Wilson, culminated a long and often bitterly contested reform movement. | | | The success of the 1986 reforms in making the income tax economically sounder, fiscally stronger and more equitable ought to encourage the president to stay on that path and reject scrapping the progressive income tax. | | | The adoption of progressive taxes at the federal level - with some rates aimed at the wealthy - was expected to help correct for the regressive elements. |
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http://www.theoaklandpress.com/stories/120604/opi_20041206006.shtml
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| | MyDD :: Join the union. |
| | The union movement had focused on the individual employers to get these benefits. | | | How do we get a progressive agenda done today? | | | The union movement has brought us the 40 hour work week and the minimum wage. |
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| | Progressive Policy Institute: Defining the Third Way |
| | There is a growing trend of environmental consciousness among evangelical groups, and the emergence of this religious environmental movement presents progressives with an opportunity to build a new alliance that could produce positive legislative action on a host of environmental challenges. | | | We need to adopt a progressive agenda to help parents shield their kids from these invasive pressures. | | | Progressives ought to rally behind Sen. McCain's sensible attempt to align U.S. treatment of terrorist suspects and detainees with basic American values. |
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| | Postmodernism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The movement has had diverse political ramifications: its anti-ideological insights appear conducive to, and strongly associated with, the feminist movement, racial equality movements, gay rights movements, most forms of late 20th century anarchism, even the peace movement and various hybrids of these in the current anti-globalization movement. | | | Michel Foucault 's application of Hegel to thinking about the body is also identified as an important landmark. | | | The critics charge that the postmodern vision of a tolerant, pluralist society in which every political ideology is perceived to be as valid, or as redundant, as the other; may ultimately encourage individuals to lead lives of a rather disastrous apathetic quietism. |
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| | Political parties and leaders. The World Factbook. 2003 |
| | People's Democratic Movement or PDM [Derek H. TAYLOR]; Progressive National Party or PNP [Washington MISICK]; United Democratic Party or UDP [Wendal SWANN] | | | Democratic Renovation Party [Armindo GRACA]; Force for Change Democratic Movement [leader NA]; Independent Democratic Action or ADI [Carlos NEVES]; Movement for the Liberation of Sao Tome and Principe-Social Democratic Party or MLSTP-PSD [Manuel Pinto Da COSTA]; Party for Democratic Convergence or PCD [Aldo BANDEIRA]; Ue-Kedadji coalition [leader NA]; other small parties | | | Democratic Front or FD [Youssouf MOUSSA]; Mahoran Popular Movement or MPM [Ahmed MADI]; Federation of Mahorans or RPR [Mansour KAMARDINE]; Movement for Department Status Mayotte or MDM [Mouhoutar SALIM]; Socialist Party or PS (local branch of French Parti Socialiste) [Ibrahim ABUBACAR]; Union for French Democracy or UDF [Henri JEAN-BAPTISTE] |
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| | 'Anti-Capitalism' as Ideology - and as Movement? |
| | For progressive liberals involved in and around the mobilizations, the problem is not capital as such, but what they see as the current ('neo-liberal'[20]) organization of capital, glossed by the term 'globalization'. | | | People like George Monbiot[30] (discredited years ago in the radical ecological movement), Walden Bello and Kevin Danaher[31] all call for smaller scale capitalism (smaller businesses that we can perhaps identify with more and be exploited by with less resistance?) and more tax (e.g. | | | A 'movement' criticized for its confused and often middle class composition and ideology could therefore prefigure and contribute to the development of a wave of struggles posing a genuine threat to capital's reproduction of itself. |
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| | Rise and Fall of the Anti-Vietnam War Movement in the U.S. |
| | It is also written from the perspective of the Progressive Labor Party, a Marxist-Leninist, Communist party, which broke from the old communist movement in the early 1960s, founded the anti-war movement, and did so much to reintroduce Marxism and communist ideas generally in the U.S. PLP is still very active. | | | Finally, the anti-war movement helped create a general anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist climate that still exists in the U.S. People are more skeptical of big corporations, of imperialism, and of capitalism. | | | Communist parties develop campaigns and lines of struggle based on what will help build communist consciousness and commitment within the context of the class struggle at the time; every set of demands, except "Communism!" is imperfect and incomplete in so far as they might exclude some progressive aspect of the class struggle. |
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| | decconf.html |
| | Furthermore, Kerala's elected progressive govern- ments could more easily supply public services to a population fairly evenly distributed: there were few special costs associated with isolated, distant, politically unimportant groups (Franke and Chasin 1989/1994:22-23).6 Another probable factor is the set of historical conjunctures that produced a modern rural proletariat in Kerala. | | | It seems unlikely that movements with the features described above could sustain them- selves for so long without a strong and viable cadre structure of leaders who for the most part do not succumb to corruption and privi- lege. | | | Today, Kerala maintains national and international ties of extraordinary strength: 50% of the gross output of the prim- ary and secondary sectors of the economy is exported to other parts of India and overseas, while around 65% of consumption expenditure goes for imports (Isaac 1994:368). |
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| | RINF.COM: Alternative Media Streams |
| | Promotes "fusion voting," or cross-nomination by multiple parties to promote progressive candidates in the 10 states where fusion voting is legal: Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Mississippi, New York, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont. | | | Media Transparency, news, opinion, analysis and investigative data related to links between conservative philanthropies and the organizations and people which they fund.Includes a free, searchable database of grants made by major conservative philanthropies since 1985. | | | Media Transparency, a web site that provides information and other resources on the funders behind non-profit organizations. |
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| | WORKERS ON THE WWW UNITE! |
| | WEBACTIVE is a weekly publication designed to offer progressive activists an up-to-date resource on the World Wide Web to find other organizations and individuals with similar values and interests. | | | Currently the labour movement on the net is young, vital and growing. | | | Several articles on the Labour movement's use of the Internet/Infobahn are included. |
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| | About the Historic Civil Economics Philosophy of the Daily Republican |
| | The Democrats controlled the presidency from then until 1920, when the voters, seeking a return to normalcy after World War I, brought the Republicans back to power under Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge.The Republican Party remained dominant throughout the 1920s, its strength unaffected even by another progressive defection in 1924. | | | What Keynes came up with was for the U.S. government to deliberately unbalance its national budget by cutting taxes and increasing expenditures in hopes of stimulating consumption and investment. | | | One of FDR's "solutions" was to cover everyone the Townsend "Old Age Revolving Pension." Under the plan, as economists quickly pointed out, the federal treasury would be drained because, with around 10 million people eligible for the pension, the cost would amount to more than $24 billion annually. |
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| | World Socialist Movement - Socialist Writers: Marx and Socialism |
| | It also set forth ten immediate measures as first steps towards communism, ranging from a progressive income tax to free education for all children (Higgins, 1998: 4). | | | A mass movement of workers meant that a democratic regime was feasible after the overthrow of bourgeois rule. | | | Reference to the help of the Communist Party should not be taken as meaning the vanguardist CP or other movements of the 20th century, rather the general movement of those in favour of communism (another name for socialism). |
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| | Theory of the Anti-Globalization Movement, Part II |
| | Treatments of the movement’s internal norms and debates attempt to clarify some of the driving issues within the movement, whereas those exploring its external alliances try to sketch out its differences with the official progressive opposition and parallel movements on the Right. | | | Although their work helped raise the level of discourse among activists immeasurably, the movement’s common principles remained embodied in a sensibility and shared activist experience rather than in clear political statements. | | | Expressions of the movement’s internal identity can be found in essays throughout the book, although the articulation of this theme tends to be more diffuse than others (which makes sense, given that the collection’s purpose is to constitute the movement). |
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| | Challenge -- May 8th |
| | But there actually were movements to reform slavery--organized by the slave-owners. | | | Our Party, The Progressive Labor Party (PLP), is like the boy and the dike. | | | This week the results of the exit exams are being posted, and the pass ratio is still miserable (one English instructor had nine students pass out of total of 57). |
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| | Hockey Station - Question for British Columbians |
| | If she can do that then perhps she can turn the NDP into a progressive social democratic party, but somehow I think she'll end up a pawn of the HEU/BCTF/BCGEU and that will persuade enough people to continue to support the BC Liberals. | | | The Union connections of the NDP and thier reliance on the status quo are why I voted Green. | | | The test for James will be if she can distance herself from being seen as a puppet of the the Public Sector Unions. |
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| | last days watchman |
| | He stated that the United States needs a MEP ( Movimento Evangélico Progressista, which means Progressive Evangelical Movement), a group that has always worked to draw evangelicals in Brazil to the socialist sheepfold. | | | So, if a politician or party is relatively in favor of abortion, but it has proposals of assistance to the poor, the progressive evangelicals prefer to support that politician or party. | | | Yet, progressive evangelicals in Brazil are determined to stay with their socialist companions throughout the whole world, united in the same feelings of opposition to George Bush and all other evangelicals that donât meet the political qualifications demanded by the left. |
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| | TPMCafe Katrina, the union movement and organized arrogance |
| | I waited to see if a progressive organization or labor union or a civil rights organization or individual leaders would demand that this man be fired or held to account for such racist and slanderous statements. | | | If there was ever a question as to why the union movement is in crisis, and why there is so much skepticism among people of color about both sides in the great un-debate and split, the following should help fill in the blanks. | | | The truth is the movement stopped the Klan, led by poor, black communities of people. |
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| | New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock GA-GH |
| | My dad would always have progressive music playing when I was young, but I never really got into it until I was about 12. | | | Music is really complex, each member of the groups seems to be able to play 10 different instruments. | | | Musically the album features a higher percentage of pure filler than any album they had done to date, which was necessary during the live performances to allow Gabriel ample time to change costumes. |
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| | Solidarity with Korea's Labour Movement: Links |
| | Revolutionary and Popular Movements in Korea: Links to News and Analysis Part of Jay's Leftist and "Progressive" Internet Resources Directory. | | | Labournet UK Often a source of the latest news straight from the Korean labour movement. | | | Korea International Labour Foundation Site includes daily labour news reports (in English), online conferences and more. |
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| | Jay's National Liberation Movements and Third World Solidarity Links |
| | Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) | | | Panama National Movement for the Defense of Soveriegnty (MONADESO) | | | Nodo Nicarao - Nicaraguan affiliate of the Association for Progressive Communications. |
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| | The MC Media Bias Meetup Group - Meetup.com |
| | "Progressive Democratic Summit: Building the Progressive Movement Inside and Outside the Democratic Party! | | | We 9;ll be meeting with other progressives 7 PM Tuesday April 5th at the Dusit Thai restaurant 2404 University Blvd. W. | | | While no Meetups will happen until a member steps up to organize the group, you can still join now to be notified of the next Meetup. |
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| | MERCATOR :: News |
| | The WSF is an annual meeting held by the left wing members of the alternative globalization movement to coordinate world campaigns, share organizing strategies, and inform each other about movements from around the world and about many different issues. | | | February 2005 Several representatives of the European Free Alliance (EFA), the European political alliance of progressive parties, are participating these days in the World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre, Brasil. | | | On the occasion of the event, the EFA representatives raised the debate of the necessity of a multilingual and multicultural society. |
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| | sp001376.txt |
| | Subscrip- tions are $30/year (4 issues) for individuals & movement groups. | | | I am afraid the history of American radical political movements still awaits historians who can eliminate the sectarian stench of the Marxists' tribes and see America's political evolution towards a non-ideological, practical populism with deep roots in a libertarian federalism. | | | Issue #2 includes a cover story on "Revolution girl style now," and includes a story announcing "Catharine A. MacKinnon to represent Croatian, Muslim wartime rape survivors." An essential magazine on the feminist movements, showing both their strengths and weaknesses. |
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