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Gene Nichols, Exchange Task Force Needs People Focus
December 9, 2011
If you paused and listened to some of the participants at the Minnesota Health Care Exchange task force meetings, you might hear an occasional utterance about the very persons the
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Liz Doyle, The Latest Front in the Revenue Fight
The first deadline of the Congressional “Super Committee” is now fast approaching. The bipartisan Super Committee is charged with developing a plan to reduce the national deficit by $1.2 trillion
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Dan McGrath, Moving on Up (Like the Jeffersons)!
Like TV Land’s beloved show “The Jeffersons,” TakeAction Minnesota is moving on up into a new, better office space one block south of University Avenue on Raymond. But the lessons
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Jess Alexander, If You Aren’t Angry, You Aren’t Making History
After a powerful week of direct actions, Friday, October 14th was the big march. Those of us working to pull it off were very excited as we prepared to go
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Jess Alexander, There is Something Big Happening Out There
Thursday, October 13th, our actions against the big banks got personal. On Wednesday, while calling people for the big march at the end of the week, we talked to one
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Jess Alexander, We Change Ourselves As We Change the World
We are at our best when we come together to take action as a strong community. By Wednesday of this week, Minnesotans for a Fair Economy (MFE), TakeAction Minnesota, and
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Jess Alexander, Community Voices Get Heard
Everybody has something to say about what’s wrong and how everything is messed up. But most of the time we don’t get heard — we just complain, and nobody listens.
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Judi Sateren, People vs. Big Banks
Today I joined over 300 people marching from Government Plaza to the lobby of Wells Fargo because I won’t be silent while Minnesotans are denied health care by HMOs holding
