How Progressives Won Four Important Victories in 10 Days

[xchrom]

http://www.alternet.org/activism/how-progressives-won-four-important-victories-10-days



***SNIP

1. Stopping U.S. military strikes on Syria

It is a huge victory that the United States is not bombing Syria right now. If not for the huge mobilization of anti-war pressure on the president and especially on Congress, things would have turned out very differently. It was what the Washington Post called a “test of the strength of the anti-war movement in the Obama era.” We’ve failed earlier tests – Guantanamo, Afghanistan, the expanded drone war, Libya… But this time, yes – we passed the test.

***SNIP

2. Defeating Larry Summers

The victory in knocking Larry Summers out of the running for Fed chair is connected to the Syria victory. Summers saw the writing on the wall when Obama couldn’t line up progressive Democrats behind a Syria attack. How could the president possibly hold the party line on an unpopular Fed nomination?

***SNIP

3. Advancing 1.9 million workers’ rights

On September 17, President Obama and Labor Secretary Tom Perez announced that in-home care workers will no longer be excluded from minimum wage and overtime protections.

***SNIP


4. Forcing Corporations to disclose their CEO-worker pay ratio

The Securities and Exchange Commission has just formally proposed a new rule that requires America’s top firms to annually reveal the ratio between what they pay their CEOs and what they pay their most typical workers.

[KG]

1. oh, pish-posh. all those thing are the result of the genius of our dear leader.

can't you get just admit his skill at n-th dimensional chess and get over your libertarian ODS poutrage? you haters never give him credit for anything.

[xchrom]

2. !

[Chiquitita]

3. Activism

Let's get this stuff done. -- Is number 4 just a proposal? How can we pressure to make sure it happens?

[nashville_brook]

4. it's a rule change proposal -- write to the SEC chair in support.

i know there's more actions to take...will post later. that's just the most obvious one. also -- it matters (somewhat) who writes the letters. if you can find business owners or trade associations who will write in support, that will have an impact.

[malaise]

5. But but but Rand Paul

they're winning

[woo me with science]

6. kick

[Recursion]

7. "Without the Arab league"?

Eh? It's the Arab league that was yelling the loudest for strikes and is the most disappointed that we aren't going to.

[cynannmarie]

8. thanks for pointing these out. n/t