Category: political activism

The Left’s Little Financial Engine That Could (Change the World Radically)

February 9, 2023
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Amalgamated Bank, with just five branches across three cities, and a market value lower than the net worth of many an individual hedge fund honcho, would seem an unlikely mover and shaker in the world of Wall Street, let alone Washington, D.C. Yet last fall, it successfully pressured colossal credit card companies Visa, Mastercard, and…

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Community Action Agencies: Trouble From the Start in LBJ’s War on Poverty

November 30, 2022
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Still prevalent in the Biden social-spending era, community action agencies date to the early 1960s, envisioned by the field marshals of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty as a way not just to identify and help the needy but to engage the poor in political activism. “Governors in southern states were moving slow on civil…

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Conservative Activists Face Attacks on Fundraising

September 29, 2022
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Conservative activists, especially those fighting what they describe as the “sexual grooming” of children, have a problem: the world’s largest fundraising platform can kneecap their efforts. Shawn McBreairty, a Maine parental rights advocate, has been fighting a radical LGBT curriculum in Maine’s Regional School Unit (RSU) 22. He recently won a $40,000 lawsuit against a…

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The Rise of Political Activism | Counterculture

April 10, 2022
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In this episode of Counterculture with Danielle D’Souza Gill, Danielle argues that political activism, which used to be more of a phenomenon on the Left, is now experiencing a revival on the Right. Danielle interviews former Hoover scholar Scott Powell about the importance of American holidays and tradition. Follow EpochTV on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EpochTVus…

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