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28
Jun
Everyone gets an American Union Job
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The Trump–Biden Peace Plan is the legislative demands for the American Union of swing voters in the 2024 election, and has three main planks: End poverty End mass incarceration End...
24
Jun
Evaluating the post-Dobbs landscape
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Photo Credit: The US has about four million babies each year. (Photo by Bonnie Kittle on Unsplash) It was two years ago that the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wa...
26
Apr
Vote with radical love in 2024
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The media is salivating over the Trump–Biden rematch, but most Americans would rather see something else. A recent survey found that just 39% of adults have a favorable opinion of ...
19
Feb
A trillion dollar bill
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Move over, military-industrial complex In a classic episode of The Simpsons, Mr. Burns (“America’s wealthiest and therefore most trustworthy citizen”) is given a trillion dollar bi...
15
Jan
Applying Dr. King’s six philosophical principles of nonviolence
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Rev. Martin Luther King press conference / World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico. Created / Published July 30, 1964. (Library of Congress) His triple evils still need to...
23
Oct
Third parties don’t work
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Gallup’s annual Governance poll. (Source) Unionizing is smarter Having voted third party for two decades, I feel that I’m speaking from experience when I say that they can’t succee...
09
Oct
A peace plan for the federal drug war
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Let states decide for themselves Most Americans, myself included, can’t remember a time when we weren’t fighting the war on drugs. After more than 50 years, it’s clear that the str...
21
Sep
The Trump-Biden Peace Plan
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Imagine what America could accomplish if we cooperated instead of fighting. On September 21, 2024, the International Day of Peace, the American Union will publish a legislative pac...
15
Apr
The political franchise as a tool for nonviolent social change
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Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton) sees the potential of franchising in The Founder (2016) Unlocking the power of the people in 2024 In the 2016 movie The Founder, Ray Kroc builds a local h...
09
Mar
What is the cost of NOT ending poverty?
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This is the first in a series of posts about unconditional basic income (UBI). Also called universal basic income, it is an amount of cash that is given to everyone on a regular ba...