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		<title>Austerity versus Dignity for Senior Citizens: A Case for Strengthening Medicare</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darlene Huntress</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems we keep referencing Bill Daley’s recent post Has The Budget Crisis Du Jour Got You Down?. Maybe that’s because it gives you have a pretty good sense of the impending debt lid crisis that is due to hit in July, and that we need to be ready to push back against efforts to cut Medicare and Medicaid as<a href="http://allianceforajustsociety.org/4405/4405/"> Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Havens for Big Business? Small Business Owners Say &#8216;Not so fast&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Blair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Multi-Partisan small business owners spoke out earlier this month, further distinguishing their interests from those of Big Business. Wednesday, in his post &#8220;Has the Budget Crisis Du Jour Got You Down?&#8221; Bill Daley pointed out that if Congress were to close one tax loophole on offshore accounts, it could be enough to create a ‘job stimulus’ program the country has<a href="http://allianceforajustsociety.org/4377/tax-havens-for-big-business-small-business-owners-say-not-so-fast/"> Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Has Budget Crisis du Jour Got You Down?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Daley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The debate about the national economy seems to have slipped into the shadows. You may be breathing a sigh of relief. Shadows on the budget are inevitable with the Congress focusing on immigration and the press focusing on the attack in Boston. We’ve seemed to weather a tornado of crisis: Sequestration, the raising of debt lids, even teetering at the<a href="http://allianceforajustsociety.org/4366/has-budget-crisis-du-jour-got-you-down/"> Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Daley&#8217;s View: Whatever Happened to the Rule of Law?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Daley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago I heard with bemusement that Mafia like organizations were springing up in Russia following the collapse of Communism. The reports suggested that these associations were emerging because their organizers thought that Capitalism actually sanctioned criminal behavior and they were only following the new rules. I was bemused because I was positive that the Russian Mafioso had misunderstood.<a href="http://allianceforajustsociety.org/4066/daleys-view-whatever-happened-to-the-rule-of-law/"> Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Does the U.S. Chamber of Commerce speak for small business? Maine small business owner says: “No!”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Blair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Melanie Collins, a small business owner and leader with the Maine Small Business Coalition, traveled to Washington, DC on October 19 to speak at a press conference outside the headquarters of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Her message was simple: “The U.S. Chamber of Commerce doesn’t speak for small business, and it doesn’t speak for me.” The event, coordinated by<a href="http://allianceforajustsociety.org/3645/does-the-u-s-chamber-of-commerce-speak-for-small-business-maine-small-business-owner-says-no/"> Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Maine Small Business Owners Challenge Political Intervention by U.S. Chamber of Commerce</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Blair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of the Maine Small Business Coalition are challenging the political intervention of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce after it announced a $400,000 attack ad in the race for the open Senate seat in Maine left by the retirement of Olympia Snowe at the end of this year. The 3,400-strong MSBC had a clear message for the U.S. Chamber: go<a href="http://allianceforajustsociety.org/3530/maine-small-business-owners-challenge-political-intervention-by-u-s-chamber-of-commerce/"> Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Does the NFIB represent small business&#8230;or big special interests?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darlene Huntress</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted from Public Campaign website. Analysis by Public Campaign and Alliance for a Just Society The National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), heralded as the “voice” of America’s small businesses, has received renewed scrutiny due to its role as the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit to throw out the Affordable Care Act, which awaits a decision from the Supreme Court<a href="http://allianceforajustsociety.org/3342/does-the-nfib-represent-small-business-or-big-special-interests/"> Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Move to Amend is Moving In Oregon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Collette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Main Street Alliance Website: Main Street Alliance of Oregon has been surveying business owners throughout Oregon and is finding strong interest in electoral reform. Currently around eight in ten business owners feel the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, freeing corporations to spend unlimited sums of money in elections, is bad for small business. And seven in ten would<a href="http://allianceforajustsociety.org/3267/move-to-amend-is-moving-in-oregon-2/"> Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Alliance for a Just Society leaders shut down the Wells Fargo Shareholders Meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy Dillner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The next step in our campaign to take on the big banks pay and win relief for homeowners is to disrupt business as usual at shareholder meetings across the country. The goal of these actions is to build off the fall mobilizations and the Occupations to keep up the street heat holding the 1% and bank executives accountable –<a href="http://allianceforajustsociety.org/3223/alliance-for-a-just-society-leaders-shut-down-the-wells-fargo-shareholders-meeting/"> Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>When the Supremes Hit the Extremes What Happens?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Daley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout most of our history the Supreme Court has been accorded a special place as a fair and impartial arbiter of legal issues. Sometimes the Court has failed in this role, but, for the most part it has been an important force in the unity of the nation because seemed to deserved respect. The current Supreme Court majority has become<a href="http://allianceforajustsociety.org/3189/when-the-supremes-hit-the-extremes-what-happens/"> Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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