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"The water won't clear up 'til we get the hogs out of the creek." -- Jim Hightower
In This Issue
Dressed up in their designer suits, they trade in human cargo
The new racketeers
Also in this issue:
- Zapping the beef supply
- Granny d marches on!
- Postmodern piracy
- Suffer the little children
- Hogs at the trough
- Charity begins in the house
- Bill's beer
Do Something!
February's Lowdown
How corporate money took over Washington--and created the mobs who rant against reform
Despite a constant racket from the forces of the far-out right (Fox television's yackety-yackers, just-say-no GOP know-nothings, tea-bag howlers, Sarah Palinistas, et al.), the great majority of Americans support a bold progressive agenda for our country, ranging from Medicare for all to the decentralization and re-regulation of Wall Street. Indeed, in the elections of 2006 and 2008, people voted for a fundamental break from Washington's 30-year push to enthrone a corporate kleptocracy.
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Granny d marches on!
We told you last month about Doris Haddock, the 89-year-old great-grandmother who is walking—walking!—across all 3,000 miles of America to rally public support for campaign finance reform.
It's a major story that the establishment media is ignoring (they've been notified), but the people are getting it via word of mouth, the Internet and, of course, the Hightower Chat & Chew radio talk show (on-line at www.jimhightower.com— noon to 2 pm EST).
Granny had a grand time in Phoenix when she and a crowd of supporters gathered outside the office of Republican U.S. Senator Jon Kyl—a notorious anti-reformer. For weeks ahead of time she had requested an audience with him, and he was in his office but wouldn't come out. A powerhouse Senator hiding under his desk! As she put it: "I think he's afraid of Granny."
Keep up with this remarkable lady's democratic crusade: www.grannyd.com.