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• The South, still ruled by ‘the handful’

  
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  Fannie Lou Hamer By Joe Atkins,  Labor South Fannie Lou Hamer, a folk philosopher of the civil rights movement in the Mississippi Delta, knew what she was up against in a state and region where an entrenched hard-right oligarchy ruled at the expense of the majority. “With the people, for the people, by the ...
  4 weeks ago

• The South, still ruled by the handful

  
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  As the Souths hard-right pols block expanding Medicaid to a population in need, they show that civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamers description of the regions government as "with the handful, for the handful, by the handful" remains true today. read more
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• The strange politics of TVA privatization

  
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  President Obamas latest budget proposes privatizing the Tennessee Valley Authority, which has been criticized as a socialist enterprise, yet Southern Republicans are opposing the plan. Whats going on here? Listen to this story via SoundCloud:  read ...
  4 weeks ago

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