Massachusetts election lesson: "Don't Mourn, Organize!"
"Don't Mourn, Organize!" This is the growing call from labor and progressive forces following the upset election in Massachusetts.
Supreme Court goes for ‘One dollar, one vote’
The court's ruling allows corporations to spend unlimited amounts to support or oppose political candidates, leaving unions in the dust.
Mass. vote shouldn’t dampen immigration reform prospects, leaders say
National Latino civil rights advocates, labor leaders and immigrant rights supporters say comprehensive immigration reform remains a bipartisan effort despite Tuesday's election results.
Massachusetts vote shows people want results
Yesterday's Senate contest in Massachusetts shows that voters are "frustrated at the lack of action coming from Washington," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said today.
All hands on deck for Mass. Senate race, say Dems
Democrats are saying "all hands on deck" to get out the vote to elect Martha Coakley to fill the late Ted Kennedy's seat.
Illinois election battles heat up
CHICAGO - The 2010 election year has shifted into turbo drive here. Illinois looks to be a key national battleground where the labor-led all people's coalition faces a stiff challenge to consolidate the defeat of the ultra right in 2008. A U.S. Senate seat, the governorship and statewide offices, House seats, state legislature, and county commissions are all up.
NYC council elections: some defeats, some historic victories
New Yorkers elected a new city council November 3, with some remarkable, and contradictory, results.
Cleveland council race features unique candidate
CLEVELAND - Volunteers are going house to house in this hard-hit city's West Side, getting out the vote for a candidate who they believe will "shake things up" and bring change to a neighborhood pockmarked with abandoned houses and torn up streets.
Spending freeze, gay rights on Washington ballot
Voters have already received their mail ballots across the Evergreen State and the two hottest issues in the Nov. 3 election are I-1033, a rightwing measure to impose deep spending cuts, and another ballot question, R-71 to ratify the state legislature’s Domestic Partnership law.
Demonstration demands end to Bloomberg education policies
About 200 people turned out to an outdoor rally on Sunday sponsored by Democratic mayoral candidate Bill Thompson, to protest current Mayor Michael Bloomberg's handling of the city school system.
