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Candidates attended a labor union process outlining their priorities for workers in 2020 and beyond. later today eight candidates will take part by progressive action and they will each get five minutes to pitch one big idea that they hope will be big and buzzworthy enough to set them apart. right now beto orourke rocks into the crowd. >> the heat so mucthank you so . >> how russia trained to divide this country. i do not want to put it into russias hand divide this country more with the partisa...

Reversem t embargo. the president will try to normalize some relations, there will be an exchange of embassy. well have an embassy in the united states and cuba will have an embassy in washington, d.c. which is remarkable in and of itself. do you see the politics inside zmong theres bipartisan opposition in some quarters. >> the strongest opposition in congress is a few members who are cuban americans who have made it their political mission to block any progressive action. theyre going to have ...

Proactive, and sort of innovative change and change making. but as it becomes bitterness, and as it osifies, the capacity for activists, artists, scholars, and all folks to engage in progressive action gets diminished. so she saw that in herself, in her work, and in the lives of so many incredible people around her. >> thats a great point. zerlina, in light of that, the woman did so much. shes acting, shes writing, shes speaking, shes writing poetry, different generas. the intersectionalty that ...

Talking about the highway system, talking about we dont want people standing in line for hours to vote. talking about were not going to make a false choice between investing in our children and investing in our seniors. i know theyre talking. im very excited that theyre talk about how to expand prekindergarten programs to more kids. in our country, we have this horrible situation where the rich get richer in every way. so affluent kids, upper middle class kids absolutely go to preschool and pre-...

Instead of trying to seek fairness with corporations and fairness with corporate executives. this set off a wave of progressive action that continues to this day. in wisconsin protesters fought to get a vote recall on walker, on the ballot. a recall that is now under way. in ohio, voters mobilize to reject the states anti-union law. and across the country the occupy wall street movement rallied public opinion to the 99%. now president obama is making fairness the central theme of his re-election...

Out there, but imagine if we had the technology we now do, videocame videocameras, audio equipment during reconstruction. imagine if we had it during the debate over social security? every major sort of progressive action, every piece of progressive legislation, really in american history has been met with this kind of fierce, emotional irrational backlash from the right. during reconstruction, thats where you had the birth of the ku klux klan. in opposition to, you know, progressivism making it...

Thing. theres a lot of reference. ive had this dispute with rush limbaugh, but using the word regime again and again. it does play to the black helicopter notion that somebodys coming to take over your country and you. >> there isnt a whole lot thats new about this. we live in an era where we have to technology to document all the episodes and instances like this and publicize it and get it out there, but imagine if we had the technology we do back during reconstruction. imagine if we had it dur...

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